Tanglewood is an adventure developed by Big Evil Corporation, released 14 August 2018 on Nintendo Switch, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Linux and Mac.
What Tanglewood is
Tanglewood is an adventure game developed by Big Evil Corporation and released in 2018. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Set in a fictional world, the game follows a young creature, Nymn, who is separated from home after the twin suns set. Unable to get back to safety, Nymn must find a way to survive the night terrors and make it to morning. TANGLEWOOD’s world is a dangerous one after dark, and Nymn must use skills of evasion, special abilities, traps and trickery to defeat predators.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Tanglewood holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Tanglewood launched on 14 August 2018, within three weeks of Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition, Dead Cells, Divinity: Original Sin II - Definitive Edition and The Messenger. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition, Dead Cells, Divinity: Original Sin II - Definitive Edition, The Messenger.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Quick answers
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