Flynn & Freckles is an adventure developed by Rookie Hero Games, released 21 March 2018 on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Flynn & Freckles is
Flynn & Freckles is an adventure game developed by Rookie Hero Games and released in 2018. It is available on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Flynn Hawkings, a young pirate tired of being the laughing stock of his village, decides to begin a quest to find the most famous of treasures, the sword of Captain Freckles, an old and ruthless pirate captain. But nothing is as it seems, Flynn ends up falling victim to a curse that lays on the sword, the captured spirit of the captain himself. Because of this, Flynn will be forced to start a journey together with the spirit of the old captain to break the curse.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Flynn & Freckles holds a critic score of 30 out of 100. That places it above 2% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 39 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Flynn & Freckles launched on 21 March 2018, within three weeks of Far Cry 5, Sea of Thieves, A Way Out and Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Far Cry 5, Sea of Thieves, A Way Out, Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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