BattleBlock Theater is an adventure developed by The Behemoth, released 3 April 2013 on Xbox 360, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 14 hrs to finish.
What BattleBlock Theater is
BattleBlock Theater is an adventure game developed by The Behemoth and released in 2013. It was published by Microsoft Studios. It is available on Xbox 360, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Almost all of the game's cut-scenes are done in a stick puppet style. The game begins with the narrator (played by Will Stamper) telling the adventures of the hundreds of friends aboard the S.S. Friendship, as well as Hatty Hattington, who is known as "best friend to one and all". After encountering a heavy storm, the S.S. Friendship becomes shipwrecked on a mysterious, seemingly abandoned island, and the crew itself vanishes. Upon waking up from the wreck, the player character seeks shelter from the storm in a dilapidated theater. Soon afterwards, the player discovers technologically advanced, highly-evolved cats restraining a captive Hatty as he is being fitted with an ominously glowing…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 30 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
BattleBlock Theater holds a critic score of 89 out of 100. That places it above 91% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 19 points above the year average. Players rate it 83, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 14 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 43 hrs, roughly 3.1 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.8 GHz Intel® Core™2 Duo or better, 1 GB RAM and 512 MB. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB.
What it launched against
BattleBlock Theater launched on 3 April 2013, within three weeks of BioShock Infinite, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, Age of Empires II HD and Don't Starve. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: BioShock Infinite, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, Age of Empires II HD, Don't Starve.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for BattleBlock Theater yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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