Despicable Me: The Game (2010) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Despicable Me: The Game

Be Despicable! (It’s fun!) Despicable Me: The Game lets players of all ages experience the thrill of being Gru, one of the world’s greatest supervillains who is planning the biggest heist in history – stealing…

43 6 July 2010

What Despicable Me: The Game is

Despicable Me: The Game is an adventure game developed by Vicious Cycle Software and released in 2010. It was published by D3Publisher. It is available on PlayStation Portable, Wii and PlayStation 2.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Be Despicable! (It’s fun!) Despicable Me: The Game lets players of all ages experience the thrill of being Gru, one of the world’s greatest supervillains who is planning the biggest heist in history – stealing the moon. Complete heists and missions in a unique blend of action and puzzle solving that combines the fun of commanding minions and using an arsenal of Despicable gadgets and weapons.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative and Single player.

Where it sits in the Despicable Me series

Despicable Me: The Game is the first of 4 entries we hold in the Despicable Me series. The next entry was Despicable Me: Minion Rush in 2013.

See all 4 Despicable Me games in release order →

How it was received

Despicable Me: The Game holds a critic score of 43 out of 100. That places it above 5% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 27 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Despicable Me: The Game launched on 6 July 2010, within three weeks of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, StarCraft II, Limbo and Singularity. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, StarCraft II, Limbo, Singularity.

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