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Brain Voyage

Brain Voyage features the famous German board game designer Dr. Reiner Knizia. He guides the player on a world tour through 13 different cities and explains how every puzzle works.

50 6 May 2008

Brain Voyage is a simulator developed by Razorback Developments Ltd, released 6 May 2008 on Nintendo DS.

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What Brain Voyage is

Brain Voyage is a simulator game developed by Razorback Developments Ltd and released in 2008. It was published by Eidos, Inc.. It is available on Nintendo DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

There are five variants for each of the 16 puzzles. These include clones of Memory or Minesweeper as well as a poker/solitaire hybrid in which the player's dealt cards and then he must try to place them in a grid to make the best hands. Depending on his score the player then gets rewarded a bronze, silver or gold medal and some coins which can then be spend for access to new cities (and therefore new puzzles) or purchasing new difficulty levels for any already unlocked puzzle.
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How it plays

Its themes are action and educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Brain Voyage holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 8% of the 2,881 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 15 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Brain Voyage launched on 6 May 2008, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto IV, Valkyria Chronicles, TrackMania United Forever and The Void. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto IV, Valkyria Chronicles, TrackMania United Forever, The Void.

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When did Brain Voyage come out?
Brain Voyage was released on 6 May 2008 for Nintendo DS.

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