Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze

All the challenging ground-pounding, barrel-blasting, side-scrolling mine cart action from the Donkey Kong Country series is back along with a bushel of new game-play elements and features. And now, there are…

86 13 February 2014

Platform Action

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is a platform developed by Retro Studios, released 13 February 2014 on Wii U.

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What Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is a platform game developed by Retro Studios and released in 2014. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Help Donkey Kong and his friends save their home and banana hoard from marauding Vikings in the Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze game from Retro Studios. All the challenging ground-pounding, barrel-blasting, side-scrolling mine cart action from the Donkey Kong Country series is back along with a bushel of new game play elements and features.

Description from the publisher · source

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: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Donkey Kong series

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is the 157th of 190 entries we hold in the Donkey Kong series. The next entry was Mario Kart 8 in 2014. Its critic score of 86 is 11 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 86 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 17 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 85, across 166 votes.

What it launched against

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze launched on 13 February 2014, within three weeks of South Park: The Stick of Truth, The Last of Us: Left Behind, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition and Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: South Park: The Stick of Truth, The Last of Us: Left Behind, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition.

Cheats and codes

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