Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is a mind-bending, time travel, cartoon puzzle adventure game in which three unlikely…
Day of the Tentacle Remastered is an adventure developed by Double Fine Productions, released 21 March 2016 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One and iOS. The main story takes about 6 hrs to finish.
What Day of the Tentacle Remastered is
Day of the Tentacle Remastered is an adventure game developed by Double Fine Productions and released in 2016. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Day of the Tentacle, also known as Maniac Mansion II: Day of the Tentacle, is a 1993 graphic adventure game developed and published by LucasArts. It is the sequel to the 1987 game Maniac Mansion. The plot follows Bernard Bernoulli and his friends Hoagie and Laverne as they attempt to stop the evil Purple Tentacle from taking over the world. The player takes control of the trio and solves puzzles while using time travel to explore different periods of history.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy, fantasy, historical and kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 58 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Day of the Tentacle Remastered holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 17 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 80, across 119 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 6 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.7 GHz Dual Core, 2 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, ATI Radeon 4870 HD, Intel HD 3000, or equivalent card with at least 512 MB VRAM. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Day of the Tentacle Remastered launched on 21 March 2016, within three weeks of Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Hitman and Quantum Break. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Hitman, Quantum Break.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Day of the Tentacle Remastered yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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