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Trover Saves the Universe

Wonderful. Your dogs have been dognapped by a beaked lunatic who stuffed them into his eye holes and is using their life essence to destroy the universe. Does that make any sense? You've partnered with Trover…

76 31 May 2019

Trover Saves the Universe is an adventure developed by Squanch Games, released 31 May 2019 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR and Xbox One.

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What Trover Saves the Universe is

Trover Saves the Universe is an adventure game developed by Squanch Games and released in 2019. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR, Xbox One, Meta Quest 2, Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, PC (Microsoft Windows) and SteamVR. It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Wonderful. Your dogs have been dognapped by a beaked lunatic who stuffed them into his eye holes and is using their life essence to destroy the universe. Does that make any sense? You've partnered with Trover, a little purple eye hole monster to save them. Find power babies and plug them into his eye holes so that he can absorb their power, track down Glorkon, and save your dogs (and the Universe).
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Trover Saves the Universe holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 7 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Trover Saves the Universe launched on 31 May 2019, within three weeks of A Plague Tale: Innocence, Outer Wilds, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night and Rage 2. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: A Plague Tale: Innocence, Outer Wilds, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Rage 2.

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When did Trover Saves the Universe come out?
Trover Saves the Universe was released on 31 May 2019 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR, Xbox One, Meta Quest 2, Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, PC (Microsoft Windows) and SteamVR.

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