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Beat the Game

Beat the Game is a surreal adventure game where you find your way by collecting items and discovering sounds. Sounds you find introduce cinematic cutscenes as the story unfolds. You can combine a soda can with…

7 September 2017

Beat the Game is an adventure developed by Worm Animation, released 7 September 2017 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux and Mac.

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What Beat the Game is

Beat the Game is an adventure game developed by Worm Animation and released in 2017. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Beat the Game is a surreal adventure game where you find your way by collecting items and discovering sounds. Sounds you find introduce cinematic cutscenes as the story unfolds. You can combine a soda can with a drumstick to unlock hi-hat sounds or search the hidden corners of the world and you might run across a character who will share a bassline with you. You’re equipped with a Sound Scanner to help you track down sounds. Rapidly hunt the desert for hidden objects by remote controlled “Roboball” with its first person camera. You create new combinations of sounds with your portable holographic music mixer complete with volume faders and effects. After collecting all the sounds, you will…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How long it takes, and what that costs

A full completion run takes around 36 min.

What it launched against

Beat the Game launched on 7 September 2017, within three weeks of Destiny 2, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Divinity: Original Sin II and Doki Doki Literature Club!. 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: Destiny 2, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Divinity: Original Sin II, Doki Doki Literature Club!.

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When did Beat the Game come out?
Beat the Game was released on 7 September 2017 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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