Bulb Boy
One gloomy night, Bulb Boy wakes suddenly from a frightening nightmare to discover that evil has overshadowed the Bulbhouse. His family has disappeared and there are horrid monsters lurking in the shadows…
Bulb Boy is an adventure developed by Bulbware, released 29 October 2015 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Android. The main story takes about 2.3 hrs to finish.
What Bulb Boy is
Bulb Boy is an adventure game developed by Bulbware and released in 2015. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
One gloomy night, Bulb Boy wakes suddenly from a frightening nightmare to discover that evil has overshadowed the Bulbhouse. His family has disappeared and there are horrid monsters lurking in the shadows.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 12 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Bulb Boy holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 14 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 2.3 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel i3, 2 GB RAM and Intel HD 4000. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Bulb Boy launched on 29 October 2015, within three weeks of Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone and Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Bulb Boy 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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Quick answers
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