Don't Give Up: A Cynical Tale
A comedic retro inspired RPG about the cynical and hilarious realities of social interaction and confronting your inner demons.
Don't Give Up: A Cynical Tale is an adventure developed by Taco Pizza Cats, released 16 September 2019 on Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Don't Give Up: A Cynical Tale is
Don't Give Up: A Cynical Tale is an adventure game developed by Taco Pizza Cats and released in 2019. It was published by Humble Bundle. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Don't Give Up: A Cynical Tale holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 9 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Don't Give Up: A Cynical Tale launched on 16 September 2019, within three weeks of Control, Borderlands 3, GreedFall and The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019). All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Control, Borderlands 3, GreedFall, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019).
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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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