Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom
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Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is an adventure developed by Game Atelier, released 4 December 2018 on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It currently starts at $9.89 at GOG. The main story takes about 17 hrs to finish.
What Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is an adventure game developed by Game Atelier and released in 2018. It was published by FDG Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
A boy named Jin discovers his Uncle Nabu using magic to spread chaos across the kingdom, turning everyone, including his brother Zeke, into animals. While trying to stop Nabu, Jin gets turned into a pig. Learning from the king's court magician, Mysticat, about a way to return everyone to normal, Jin goes on a quest to recover five animal orbs from across the kingdom. Upon doing so, however, Mysticat takes the orbs from Jin and uses them to open the gateway to the Dark Realm for his master Lord Xaros, who had been manipulating Nabu to do his bidding. Venturing into the Dark Realm, Jin confronts Xaros and, with the help of his friends and the spirits of past Wonder Boys, manages to defeat…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 32 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Wonder Boy series
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is the 20th of 23 entries we hold in the Wonder Boy series. It arrived 6 months after Sega Genesis Classics. The next entry was Sega Ages Wonder Boy: Monster Land in 2019. Its critic score of 79 is 3 points above the series average of 76. The highest-rated entry is Sega Genesis Classics at 83.
How it was received
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom holds a critic score of 79 out of 100. That places it above 62% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 10 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 17 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $9.89, that works out to about $0.58 per hour of the main story, or $0.61 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel/AMD Quad Core, 4 GB RAM and GPU with 2GB VRAM available.. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 5GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $9.89 at GOG, 67% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom launched on 4 December 2018, within three weeks of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Gris, Battlefield V and Hitman 2. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Gris, Battlefield V, Hitman 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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