Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (2018) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze

Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Dixie Kong and Cranky Kong return for the franchise’s debut on Nintendo Switch. This title includes all the fun and challenge of the original game, plus a new beginner-friendly mode…

88 3 May 2018

What Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is a platform game developed by Retro Studios and released in 2018. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Dixie Kong and Cranky Kong return for the franchise’s debut on Nintendo Switch. This title includes all the fun and challenge of the original game, plus a new beginner-friendly mode that lets players enjoy this critically acclaimed adventure as groovy surfing simian Funky Kong. Funky Kong can double jump, hover, perform infinite rolls and even perform infinite underwater corkscrews. Thanks to his sturdy surfboard, even spikes can’t slow him down.

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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It supports multiplayer and includes co-op. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Donkey Kong series

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is the 173rd of 190 entries we hold in the Donkey Kong series. The next entry was Arcade Archives: Donkey Kong in 2018. Its critic score of 88 is 13 points above the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.

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How it was received

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 91% of the 2,373 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 19 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze launched on 3 May 2018, within three weeks of God of War, God of War (2018), Dark Souls: Remastered and Dark Souls: Remastered. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 1 year into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: God of War, God of War (2018), Dark Souls: Remastered, Dark Souls: Remastered.

Cheats and codes

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