88 Heroes
"88 Heroes is a chaotic 2D platformer where each level completed or untimely death brings a new hero into the action! With just 88 minutes to complete all 88 rooms you'll need every one of the 88 Heroes to…
88 Heroes is an arcade developed by Bitmap Bureau, released 24 March 2017 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One.
What 88 Heroes is
88 Heroes is an arcade game developed by Bitmap Bureau and released in 2017. It was published by Rising Star Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
8 minutes past 8 on the 8th August 1988, the world teeters on the brink of total annihilation! Dr. H8's demands are simple. Pay 88 octillion dollars within 88 hours or 88 thermo-nuclear warheads pointed directly at earth will be launched. The 88th president of earth calls for urgent crisis talks! 88 leaders from 88 countries around the world are summoned to the Octo-office. With the planet bankrupt, paying the ransom is not an option. Only one possible course of action is left to take. Infiltrate Dr. H8's evil super lairs and retrieve the 8 digit coordinates to locate his space base and destroy it once and for all! Only a team of superheroes so daring, so heroic, SO STUPID!?? could possibly…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 36 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
88 Heroes holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 60% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 6 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3, 1 GB RAM and 512Mb VRAM. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
88 Heroes launched on 24 March 2017, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition and Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition, Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for 88 Heroes yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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