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Holy Potatoes! What the Hell?!

Holy Potatoes! What the Hell?! is a whacky hell-themed cooking management sim where you take on the role of a chef in an Afterlife populated by potatoes! Sort potato sinners into cooking stations to extract…

83 13 October 2017

Holy Potatoes! What the Hell?! is an arcade developed by Daylight Studios, released 13 October 2017 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Linux and Mac.

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What Holy Potatoes! What the Hell?! is

Holy Potatoes! What the Hell?! is an arcade game developed by Daylight Studios and released in 2017. It was published by Daedalic Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Holy Potatoes! What the Hell?! is a whacky hell-themed cooking management sim where you take on the role of a chef in an Afterlife populated by potatoes! Sort potato sinners into cooking stations to extract sinfully delicious ingredients, cook up incredible potato-based recipes, and appease the gods in your Pantheon by serving them savory spud dishes!
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 78 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Holy Potatoes! What the Hell?! holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 85% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 12 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel Pentium Dual Core 2.5GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 3GHz, 4 GB RAM and ATI Radeon HD4000 series or nVidia GeForce 9000 series. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Holy Potatoes! What the Hell?! launched on 13 October 2017, within three weeks of Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Cuphead and Assassin's Creed Origins. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Cuphead, Assassin's Creed Origins.

Official trailer

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Quick answers

Holy Potatoes! What the Hell?! — frequently asked questions

When did Holy Potatoes! What the Hell?! come out?
Holy Potatoes! What the Hell?! was released on 13 October 2017 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Holy Potatoes! What the Hell?!?
At minimum, Holy Potatoes! What the Hell?! needs Intel Pentium Dual Core 2.5GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 3GHz, 4 GB RAM, ATI Radeon HD4000 series or nVidia GeForce 9000 series graphics, 3 GB available space of storage.
How many GB is Holy Potatoes! What the Hell?!?
The PC version needs about 3 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("3 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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