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Default Dan

Coins make you explode? Spikes make you bounce! All of this is normal in the world of Default Dan, a new indie platformer that flips the genre upside-down by making every object in the game do the opposite of…

60 18 March 2015

Default Dan is an indie developed by Kikiwik Games, released 18 March 2015 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Default Dan is

Default Dan is an indie game developed by Kikiwik Games and released in 2015. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Coins make you explode? Spikes make you bounce! All of this is normal in the world of Default Dan, a new indie platformer that flips the genre upside-down by making every object in the game do the opposite of what it appears. By using the player’s own instincts against them, Default Dan aims to provide a humorous, mind-bending experience that gamers of all ages can enjoy.
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How it plays

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

How it was received

Default Dan holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 13% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 9 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Default Dan launched on 18 March 2015, within three weeks of Bloodborne, Ori and the Blind Forest, Yakuza 0 and Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Bloodborne, Ori and the Blind Forest, Yakuza 0, Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin.

Official trailer

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When did Default Dan come out?
Default Dan was released on 18 March 2015 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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