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Klaus Lee: Thunderballs

Dive deep through the neon-hued brash and bawdy '80s inspired reimagined classic 2D action-platformer with your favorite Bad*ss German, Klaus Lee! Dust off your jetpack, grab your dynamite and prepare your…

72 26 June 2025

Klaus Lee: Thunderballs is an adventure developed by NUKKLEAR, released 26 June 2025 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Klaus Lee: Thunderballs is

Klaus Lee: Thunderballs is an adventure game developed by NUKKLEAR and released in 2025. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

You remember Klaus Lee, right?! No? Well, you should! He almost became a cop in Beverly Hills but then applied to be a private investigator in Hawaii and got bored waiting to find out if he got it. Moving back to Cali, he worked as an unknown stuntman while running a squad of troubleshooters that kept getting beaten to the clients by A much more successful Team. One time he barely missed his job interview at a New York startup and some dude named Zeddemore got the job as an exterminator of spirits. Did you know that Klaus trained Maverick how to both fly his jet and play killer beach volleyball? This is only a glimpse of everything he experienced living life to the max. Klaus was a really…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Klaus Lee: Thunderballs holds a critic score of 72 out of 100. That places it above 42% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2025 averaged 78, so it scored 6 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Klaus Lee: Thunderballs launched on 26 June 2025, within three weeks of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Dune: Awakening, The Alters and Donkey Kong Bananza. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Dune: Awakening, The Alters, Donkey Kong Bananza.

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When did Klaus Lee: Thunderballs come out?
Klaus Lee: Thunderballs was released on 26 June 2025 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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