Pitfall! is a platform developed by The Blast Furnace, released 9 August 2012 on Android and iOS.
What Pitfall! is
Pitfall! is a platform game developed by The Blast Furnace and released in 2012. It was published by Activision. It is available on Android and iOS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Pitfall! for iOS/Android, reimagined as an infinite runner! Let me introduce myself. I'm Pitfall Harry, veteran jungle explorer. Fortune hunting's my game, and yours, too, if you're daring enough to take this trip with me. Don't be nervous; I'll be your guide through the jungle, and I'm one of the best. Untold riches are waiting for us in there, but so are dangers a dozen times over. We'll be swinging on vines over bottomless tarpits. We'll be hopping across swamps, using crocodile heads like stepping stones. We'll be searching underground through dark passageways crawling with killer scorpions. So pack up your backpack and meet me at the jungle at dawn - and we'll be off to seek a king's…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Pitfall! holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Pitfall! launched on 9 August 2012, within three weeks of Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Sleeping Dogs and Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Sleeping Dogs, Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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Quick answers
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