Desi Adda: Games of India
Desi Adda consists of a collection of cultural games from India, based on traditional Indian sports. These include Kite Fighting, Kabaddi, Pachisi, Bagh-Chal and Gilli-Danda. The player is placed in an Indian…
Desi Adda: Games of India is a card & board game developed by Gameshastra, released 27 October 2009 on PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 2.
What Desi Adda: Games of India is
Desi Adda: Games of India is a card & board game game developed by Gameshastra and released in 2009. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. It is available on PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 2.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Desi Adda consists of a collection of cultural games from India, based on traditional Indian sports. These include Kite Fighting, Kabaddi, Pachisi, Bagh-Chal and Gilli-Danda. The player is placed in an Indian village, where they can play the different games with other villagers and converse with them. The player will learn from the villagers of a couple in love, and must interact with different villagers in order to progress the story. An additional beat-matching dance game is unlocked by completing the story. The game is in four languages: English, Hindi, Tamil and Punjabi.
How it plays
Its themes are educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Desi Adda: Games of India launched on 27 October 2009, within three weeks of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins and Left 4 Dead 2.
Released around the same time: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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