Popeye
The official Popeye game in which you play the spinach eating sailor in this modernized adaptation of the classic arcade game. The objective of the game is to get the highest score by completing as many levels…
Popeye is an adventure developed by Sabec, released 4 November 2021 on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
What Popeye is
Popeye is an adventure game developed by Sabec and released in 2021. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The official Popeye game in which you play the spinach eating sailor in this modernized adaptation of the classic arcade game. The objective of the game is to get the highest score by completing as many levels as you can by collecting hearts and letters thrown down by Olive all while trying to avoid the dangers of the witch, vulture and Popeye's rival Brutus. Find and eat the spinach and get the special powers needed to punch your enemies into the sea and become faster at collecting the items before they return. Popeye is a simple, pick up and play, fast action, fun game which anyone can play, but be warned winning a high score won't come easy.
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.
Where it sits in the Popeye series
Popeye is the 22nd of 22 entries we hold in the Popeye series. It arrived 17 years after Popeye: Rush for Spinach. It is the most recent released entry in the series.
What it launched against
Popeye launched on 4 November 2021, within three weeks of Age of Empires IV, Forza Horizon 5, Unpacking and Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. It arrived 8 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Age of Empires IV, Forza Horizon 5, Unpacking, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy.
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