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The Basement Collection

The Basement Collection is a compilation of Edmund McMillen's Flash games. The games were remade with added features and music tracks. The games in the collection include: - Triachnid (2006), a physics spider…

80 31 August 2012

The Basement Collection is an adventure developed by Edmund McMillen, released 31 August 2012 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What The Basement Collection is

The Basement Collection is an adventure game developed by Edmund McMillen and released in 2012. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Basement Collection is a compilation of Edmund McMillen's Flash games released on August 31, 2012. The games were remade with added features and music tracks.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 53 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

The Basement Collection holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 2.3 GHz Dual Core +, 4GB of RAM and Nvidia 9800 +. 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 1GB.

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What it launched against

The Basement Collection launched on 31 August 2012, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Borderlands 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Borderlands 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

Cheats and codes

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The Basement Collection — frequently asked questions

When did The Basement Collection come out?
The Basement Collection was released on 31 August 2012 for Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for The Basement Collection?
At minimum, The Basement Collection needs 2.3 GHz Dual Core +, 4GB of RAM, Nvidia 9800 + graphics, 1GB of storage.
How many GB is The Basement Collection?
The PC version needs about 1 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("1GB"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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