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Playboy: The Mansion

Play as Hugh Hefner and build the Playboy publishing empire while throwing parties, hanging out with celebrities, and, of course, inviting beautiful models into your mansion. Playboy: The Mansion is a social…

55 25 January 2005

Playboy: The Mansion is a simulator developed by Cyberlore Studios, released 25 January 2005 on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Playboy: The Mansion is

Playboy: The Mansion is a simulator game developed by Cyberlore Studios and released in 2005. It was published by Arush Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Gamebryo.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Play as Hugh Hefner and build the Playboy publishing empire while throwing parties, hanging out with celebrities, and, of course, inviting beautiful models into your mansion. Playboy: The Mansion is a social strategy game that calls on players to build a virtual empire of wealth, celebrity, and freedom from puritanical repression and intolerance. This is accomplished by developing a fully functioning Playboy mansion, to attract and accommodate influential celebrities and beautiful young models who are willing to strike the right poses. Players who can build a suitably entertaining and well-equipped mansion, while adhering to "the Playboy philosophy," are rewarded with "the Playboy…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are business. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Playboy: The Mansion holds a critic score of 55 out of 100. That places it above 12% of the 2,881 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 12 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Playboy: The Mansion launched on 25 January 2005, within three weeks of Resident Evil 4 (2005), Resident Evil 4, Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2 and Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil 4 (2005), Resident Evil 4, Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2, Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath.

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When did Playboy: The Mansion come out?
Playboy: The Mansion was released on 25 January 2005 for PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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