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The Inlaws

The Inlaws is a comedy adventure game that is designed with elements from sitcoms such as audience laughter. The game consists of a single episode and the player takes control of a middle aged man called Ed…

21 January 2010

The Inlaws is an adventure developed by Golem Labs, released 21 January 2010 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What The Inlaws is

The Inlaws is an adventure game developed by Golem Labs and released in 2010. It was published by Strategy First. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Inlaws is a comedy adventure game that is designed with elements from sitcoms such as audience laughter. The game consists of a single episode and the player takes control of a middle aged man called Ed who, along with his family, visits his in-laws to celebrate the tenth birthday of the son in the family. Ed is a mischievous being, though, who can't resist making the life of his poor brother-in-law as miserable as possible. There are thus two objectives: mess with the son's birthday gifts and ruin the performance of the hired entertainment troupe. The player controls Ed from a third-person perspective and can explore a three dimensional environment that consists of the inlaws' house as…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

The Inlaws launched on 21 January 2010, within three weeks of Mass Effect 2, BioShock 2, Gothic II: Gold Edition and Darksiders.

Released around the same time: Mass Effect 2, BioShock 2, Gothic II: Gold Edition, Darksiders.

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When did The Inlaws come out?
The Inlaws was released on 21 January 2010 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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