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Sam & Max: Save the World

The Freelance Police are back in a remastered version of their first season of episodic adventure games, lovingly updated by a small group of the original developers with the blessing of Sam & Max creator…

83 2 December 2020 ESRB T

Sam & Max: Save the World is an adventure developed by Skunkape, released 2 December 2020 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Sam & Max: Save the World is

Sam & Max: Save the World is an adventure game developed by Skunkape and released in 2020. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Telltale Tool. It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Freelance Police are back in a remastered version of their first season of episodic adventure games, lovingly updated by a small group of the original developers with the blessing of Sam & Max creator Steve Purcell.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Sam & Max series

Sam & Max: Save the World is the seventh of 12 entries we hold in the Sam & Max series. It arrived 8 years after Poker Night 2. The next entry was Sam & Max: This Time It's Virtual in 2021. 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.

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How it was received

Sam & Max: Save the World 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 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 10 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Sam & Max: Save the World launched on 2 December 2020, within three weeks of Cyberpunk 2077, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Astro's Playroom. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 7 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Cyberpunk 2077, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Astro's Playroom.

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When did Sam & Max: Save the World come out?
Sam & Max: Save the World was released on 2 December 2020 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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