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Mercury Hg

Mercury Hg is a puzzle platformer video game developed by British studio Eiconic Games and published by UTV Ignition Games. It is the third entry in the Mercury series. The goal is to navigate a blob of…

70 27 September 2011

Mercury Hg is an adventure developed by Eiconic Games, released 27 September 2011 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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What Mercury Hg is

Mercury Hg is an adventure game developed by Eiconic Games and released in 2011. It was published by UTV Ignition Games. It is available on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Mercury Hg is a puzzle platformer video game developed by British studio Eiconic Games and published by UTV Ignition Games. It is the third entry in the Mercury series. The goal is to navigate a blob of mercury to a goalpost by tilting the stage without losing all of the mercury. The mercury can be split apart into multiple blobs, change colors using Paintshops, and be remerged into a new color. In addition, the game utilizes an online leaderboard, ghost sharing, and the ability to insert music into the levels.
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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.

How it was received

Mercury Hg holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 2 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Mercury Hg launched on 27 September 2011, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham City, Dark Souls, Shadow of the Colossus (2011) and Gears of War 3. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham City, Dark Souls, Shadow of the Colossus (2011), Gears of War 3.

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When did Mercury Hg come out?
Mercury Hg was released on 27 September 2011 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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