Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet

Pirate heroine Nelly Cootalot takes on the villainous Baron Widebeard in this point and click adventure game. Meet a cast of outlandish characters and face perplexing challenges in your quest for the Treasure…

77 22 March 2016 ESRB T

Adventure Indie Point-and-click Puzzle Strategy Comedy Kids

Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet is an adventure developed by Alasdair Beckett-King, released 22 March 2016 on Nintendo Switch, iOS, Linux and Mac.

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What Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet is

Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet is an adventure game developed by Alasdair Beckett-King and released in 2016. It was published by Application Systems Heidelberg. It is available on Nintendo Switch, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity. It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Pirate heroine Nelly Cootalot takes on the villainous Baron Widebeard in this point and click adventure game. Meet a cast of outlandish characters and face perplexing challenges in your quest for the Treasure of the Seventh Sea.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy and kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 20 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 56% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 9 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 1.2 GHz, 2 GB RAM and 256MB VRAM. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 6GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet launched on 22 March 2016, within three weeks of Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Hitman and Ratchet & Clank. All of them reviewed better. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Hitman, Ratchet & Clank.

Official trailer

Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

Screenshots

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Quick answers

Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet — frequently asked questions

When did Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet come out?

Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet was released on 22 March 2016 for Nintendo Switch, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet?

At minimum, Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet needs 1.2 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 256MB VRAM graphics, 6 GB available space of storage.

How many GB is Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet?

The PC version needs about 6 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("6 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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