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The Impossible Game

The super-addictive and very, very hard platform game finally arrives on Steam - it's quite possibly the world's hardest game! As well as five classic Impossible Game levels, this desktop version includes an…

75 23 November 2009

The Impossible Game is an arcade developed by FlukeDude, released 23 November 2009 on PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and Xbox 360.

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What The Impossible Game is

The Impossible Game is an arcade game developed by FlukeDude and released in 2009. It is available on PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Windows Phone.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Impossible Game is a 2009 one-button platform game developed and published by Fluke Games. The objective is to guide a cube over spikes and pits. The Windows, macOS and Linux port was developed by Grip Games. First released in 2009, for the Xbox 360 via the Xbox Live Indie Games, The Impossible Game received generally mixed reviews.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 12 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

The Impossible Game holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 53% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 8 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 2 GHz, 2 GB RAM and OpenGL 2.0 support. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

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What it launched against

The Impossible Game launched on 23 November 2009, within three weeks of Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Impossible Game yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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Quick answers

The Impossible Game — frequently asked questions

When did The Impossible Game come out?
The Impossible Game was released on 23 November 2009 for PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Windows Phone.
What are the minimum PC requirements for The Impossible Game?
At minimum, The Impossible Game needs 2 GHz, 2 GB RAM, OpenGL 2.0 support graphics, 150 MB available space of storage.
How many GB is The Impossible Game?
The PC version needs about 0.1 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("150 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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