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Lucky's Tale

Lucky's Tale is a delightful platforming adventure game designed exclusively for the Oculus Rift. Join Lucky as he runs, jumps, climbs and spins his way through a bright, colorful world filled with thrilling…

77 28 March 2016

Lucky's Tale is an adventure developed by Playful, released 28 March 2016 on PlayStation VR, Meta Quest 2, Oculus Rift and Oculus VR.

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What Lucky's Tale is

Lucky's Tale is an adventure game developed by Playful and released in 2016. It is available on PlayStation VR, Meta Quest 2, Oculus Rift, Oculus VR and SteamVR. It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Lucky's Tale is a 2016 platform game developed and published by American studio Playful Studios and released in 2016 as a launch title and pack-in game for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. A sequel without VR support titled Super Lucky's Tale was released worldwide in November 2017. A remastered version of the game was released for Oculus Quest 2 and PCVR headsets via Steam in 2021, featuring improvements to the game's graphics, audio and movement, as well as replacing Lucky's character model with the one from New Super Lucky's Tale. A PlayStation VR version was released on April 7, 2022.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 17 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Lucky's Tale holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 56% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 9 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel i5-3550 / AMD FX 8150, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA GTX 780 / AMD Radeon R9 290. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 7GB. 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

Lucky's Tale launched on 28 March 2016, within three weeks of Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Hitman and Ratchet & Clank. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Hitman, Ratchet & Clank.

Cheats and codes

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Quick answers

Lucky's Tale — frequently asked questions

When did Lucky's Tale come out?
Lucky's Tale was released on 28 March 2016 for PlayStation VR, Meta Quest 2, Oculus Rift, Oculus VR and SteamVR.
What are the minimum PC requirements for Lucky's Tale?
At minimum, Lucky's Tale needs Intel i5-3550 / AMD FX 8150, 8 GB RAM, NVIDIA GTX 780 / AMD Radeon R9 290 graphics, 7 GB available space of storage.
How many GB is Lucky's Tale?
The PC version needs about 7 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("7 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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