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Temple Run

Temple Run is an "endless running" video game developed by the Raleigh-based Imangi Studios. The player takes on the role of an explorer who, having stolen an idol from a temple, is chased by "demonic…

70 4 August 2011

Temple Run is an arcade developed by Imangi Studios, released 4 August 2011 on Android and iOS.

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What Temple Run is

Temple Run is an arcade game developed by Imangi Studios and released in 2011. It is available on Android and iOS. It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Temple Run is a 2011 endless runner video game developed and published by Imangi Studios. The player controls an explorer who has obtained an ancient relic and runs from demonic monkey-like creatures chasing them. The game was initially released for iOS devices on August 4, 2011, and later ported to Android systems on March 27, 2012, and Windows Phone 8 on March 27, 2013.
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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.

How it was received

Temple Run holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 35% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 2 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 71, across 77 votes.

What it launched against

Temple Run launched on 4 August 2011, within three weeks of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Bastion, Fallout: New Vegas - Old World Blues and Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Bastion, Fallout: New Vegas - Old World Blues, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked.

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When did Temple Run come out?
Temple Run was released on 4 August 2011 for Android and iOS.

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