Goodboy Galaxy
A vibrant sci-fi platform adventure game for the Game Boy Advance, where you help Maxwell the dog explore unfamiliar worlds, make strange new friends and contend with mysterious forces - by jumping, shooting…
Goodboy Galaxy is an adventure developed by Goodboy Galaxy, released 28 November 2023 on Evercade, Nintendo Switch, Game Boy Advance and Linux.
What Goodboy Galaxy is
Goodboy Galaxy is an adventure game developed by Goodboy Galaxy and released in 2023. It is available on Evercade, Nintendo Switch, Game Boy Advance, Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Maxwell's homeworld is nearing collapse. In a last-ditch effort to find help, he hyperjumps where no dog has gone before. Stranded, he finds himself at the edge of a hostile system - if there's any hope of return and rescue he'll need every friend (and every weapon) he can find. Like all underdogs, the odds are stacked against him, but you can't keep a good dog down. Help Maxwell explore unfamiliar worlds, make strange new friends and contend with mysterious forces.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Goodboy Galaxy holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 4 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Goodboy Galaxy launched on 28 November 2023, within three weeks of Ready or Not, The Finals, Against the Storm and The Exit 8. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Ready or Not, The Finals, Against the Storm, The Exit 8.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Goodboy Galaxy yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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