Pony Island is an adventure developed by Daniel Mullins Games, released 4 January 2016 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $0.74 at Humble Store. The main story takes about 3.4 hrs to finish.
What Pony Island is
Pony Island is an adventure game developed by Daniel Mullins Games and released in 2016. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Pony Island is a 2016 video game developed and published by Canadian indie developer Daniel Mullins. As a metafictional game, the game has the player interact with what appears to be an old arcade cabinet game called "Pony Island". The player soon discovers the game is corrupted by Lucifer himself, who is trying to claim the player's soul. The player is aided by the soul of a previous player who helps the player access Pony Island's internal programming to get around the traps left by Lucifer and save not only his soul, but the many tormented souls that are trapped within the game's code.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 20 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Pony Island holds a critic score of 92 out of 100. That places it above 97% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 24 points above the year average. Players rate it 84, 8 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 3.4 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $0.74, that works out to about $0.22 per hour of the main story, or $0.17 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2 GB RAM. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $0.74 at Humble Store, 85% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Pony Island launched on 4 January 2016, within three weeks of Yakuza Kiwami, Darkest Dungeon, Yakuza Kiwami and Oxenfree. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: Yakuza Kiwami, Darkest Dungeon, Yakuza Kiwami, Oxenfree.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Pony Island yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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