Bookbound Brigade (2020) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Bookbound Brigade

Bookbound Brigade is about beating the hell out of historical and literary characters you studied in school by leading a dream team of real and fictional heroes through a 2D side-scrolling platform-adventure…

67 29 January 2020

What Bookbound Brigade is

Bookbound Brigade is an adventure game developed by Digital Tales and released in 2020. It was published by Intragames. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Bookbound Brigade is about beating the hell out of historical and literary characters you studied in school by leading a dream team of real and fictional heroes through a 2D side-scrolling platform-adventure. It will take the likes of Dracula, King Arthur, Queen Victoria, Nikola Tesla, Cassandra, Dorothy Gale, Sun Wukong the Monkey King and Robin Hood to assemble and avenge a world plunged into chaos following the theft of the ‘Book of Books’, a volume encompassing every single work of fiction and non-fiction ever written.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Bookbound Brigade holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 29% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 6 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Bookbound Brigade launched on 29 January 2020, within three weeks of Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Dreams, Besiege and Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 7 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Dreams, Besiege, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot.

Official trailer