Goosebumps: The Game
The walk home from school today is going to be a lot spookier than usual… Your sleepy neighborhood’s been overrun by monsters! Werewolves prowl the woods, Gnomes roam underfoot, and scarecrows walk at…
Goosebumps: The Game is an adventure developed by WayForward, released 13 October 2015 on Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
What Goosebumps: The Game is
Goosebumps: The Game is an adventure game developed by WayForward and released in 2015. It was published by GameMill Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on WF Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The walk home from school today is going to be a lot spookier than usual… Your sleepy neighborhood’s been overrun by monsters! Werewolves prowl the woods, Gnomes roam underfoot, and scarecrows walk at midnight. But these aren’t ordinary monsters—they’re R.L. Stine’s famous Goosebumps monsters, released from their books and looking to wreak havoc!
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the GooseBumps series
Goosebumps: The Game is the fifth of 8 entries we hold in the GooseBumps series. It arrived 7 years after Goosebumps: HorrorLand. The next entry was Goosebumps HorrorTown in 2018. Its critic score of 20 is 19 points below the series average of 39. The highest-rated entry is Goosebumps: Terror in Little Creek at 76.
How it was received
Goosebumps: The Game holds a critic score of 20 out of 100. That places it above 1% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 49 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Goosebumps: The Game launched on 13 October 2015, within three weeks of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone and Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Game Series. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone, Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Game Series.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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