Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space
The Freelance Police are back on the crime beat in a newly remastered version of their second episodic season. Zombies will dance. Mariachis will sing. A giant battle robot will trash the streets. And when…
Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space is an adventure developed by Skunkape, released 8 December 2021 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space is
Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space is an adventure game developed by Skunkape and released in 2021. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Join the Freelance Police on a bizarre adventure from the North Pole to the Fountain of Youth, from outer space to Hell and back. Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space is a remastered version of Telltale’s second season of episodic Sam & Max games, lovingly updated by a small team of the original developers. Sam is a six-foot canine detective with a nose for justice. Max is a hyperkinetic rabbity-thing with a taste for mayhem. Together, they’re the Freelance Police—an irreverent comedy duo whose esoteric crime-fighting style has been entertaining comic book and video game fans for more than thirty years. In this five-episode collection of interconnected cases, Sam & Max are back on the crime…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are comedy, mystery, party and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Sam & Max series
Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space is the ninth of 12 entries we hold in the Sam & Max series. The next entry was Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse in 2024. Its critic score of 83 is 5 points above the series average of 79. The highest-rated entry is Poker Night at the Inventory at 96.
How it was received
Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 9 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space launched on 8 December 2021, within three weeks of Halo Infinite, Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, Solar Ash and Battlefield 2042. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 8 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Halo Infinite, Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, Solar Ash, Battlefield 2042.
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We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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