Bad Mojo
You are Roger Samms. All your life you’ve been the little man, the square peg, the forgotten man. With a rat-hole apartment, dead-end job, and an unbearable landlord breathing down your neck, you’ve finally…
Bad Mojo is an adventure developed by Pulse Entertainment, released 29 February 1996 on DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 4.7 hrs to finish.
What Bad Mojo is
Bad Mojo is an adventure game developed by Pulse Entertainment and released in 1996. It was published by Acclaim Entertainment. It is available on DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Bad Mojo is a 1996 adventure game developed by Pulse Entertainment and published by Acclaim Entertainment for Windows and Macintosh. The game follows Roger Samms, an entomologist who accidentally unleashes a curse that turns him into a cockroach. The storyline in Bad Mojo is loosely based on Franz Kafka's 1915 novella The Metamorphosis; Roger Samms' name is an imperfect anagram of the lead character's in Metamorphosis, and a cat called Franz appears in the game. The gameplay consists of guiding the cockroach through a series of puzzles.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are drama and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Bad Mojo holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1996 averaged 70, so it scored 20 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 4.7 hrs.
What it launched against
Bad Mojo launched on 29 February 1996, within three weeks of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Pokémon Red Version, Sid Meier's Civilization II and Kirby Super Star. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Pokémon Red Version, Sid Meier's Civilization II, Kirby Super Star.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Bad Mojo 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.
Screenshots
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Characters
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Dlc
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