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This Way Madness Lies

Let us begin our tale, in the quiet city of Verona, Italy. A town for lovers... and giant, mutant flower attacks. As the leader of the Stratford-Upon-Avon High Drama Society, Imogen is no ordinary girl! Sure…

87 10 November 2022

This Way Madness Lies is an adventure developed by Zeboyd Games, released 10 November 2022 on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What This Way Madness Lies is

This Way Madness Lies is an adventure game developed by Zeboyd Games and released in 2022. It is available on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Let us begin our tale, in the quiet city of Verona, Italy. A town for lovers... and giant, mutant flower attacks. As the leader of the Stratford-Upon-Avon High Drama Society, Imogen is no ordinary girl! Sure, she goes to school every day and helps produce plays for the community, but beyond that, she's a magical girl! With her powers, she can teleport to alternate dimensions based on Shakespeare plays, fight back the forces of Nightmare, and still get back in time for dinner! Join Imogen, Paulina, Viola, Rosalind, Miranda, Beatrice, and Kate on an epic adventure throughout the Shakespearean metaverse in this comedy JRPG!
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

This Way Madness Lies holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 13 points above the year average.

What it launched against

This Way Madness Lies launched on 10 November 2022, within three weeks of God of War Ragnarök, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, Bayonetta 3 and Signalis. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: God of War Ragnarök, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, Bayonetta 3, Signalis.

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When did This Way Madness Lies come out?
This Way Madness Lies was released on 10 November 2022 for PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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