The Legend of Bum-bo is an adventure developed by Edmund McMillen, released 12 November 2019 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and iOS.
What The Legend of Bum-bo is
The Legend of Bum-bo is an adventure game developed by Edmund McMillen and released in 2019. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 48 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Legend of Bum-bo holds a critic score of 72 out of 100. That places it above 42% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 3 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM and Discreet video card, Shader Model 3+. 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 4GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
The Legend of Bum-bo launched on 12 November 2019, within three weeks of Death Stranding, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, The Outer Worlds and Persona 5 Royal. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Death Stranding, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, The Outer Worlds, Persona 5 Royal.
Official trailer
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