Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion
"This full-on single-player adventure spans 80 missions starring Agent 8, an Octoling who awakens on a dark subway platform. Navigate this mysterious underground test facility in a desperate battle to reach…
Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion is a platform developed by Nintendo EPD Production Group No. 5, released 13 June 2018 on Nintendo Switch.
What Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion is
Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion is a platform game developed by Nintendo EPD Production Group No. 5 and released in 2018. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
"This full-on single-player adventure spans 80 missions starring Agent 8, an Octoling who awakens on a dark subway platform. Navigate this mysterious underground test facility in a desperate battle to reach the surface of Inkopolis. Escape from these twisted depths, and you’ll finally be able to join multiplayer matches as an Octoling!" "The new adventure features 80 missions starring Agent 8, a new character who awakens without her memories on a dark subway platform. Navigate the twisted depths in a battle to reach the surface of Inkopolis. Once you escape, you'll be able to join multiplayer matches as an Octoling! - Play as an Octoling who's lost her memory in a new single-player…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Splatoon series
Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion is the tenth of 21 entries we hold in the Splatoon series. The next entry was Splatoon 2: Version 4.0.0 in 2018. Its critic score of 81 is 4 points below the series average of 85. The highest-rated entry is Mario Kart 8 Deluxe at 93.
How it was received
Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 75% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 12 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion launched on 13 June 2018, within three weeks of Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered and Vampyr. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It arrived 1 year into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered, Vampyr.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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