The Plucky Squire is an adventure developed by All Possible Futures, released 17 September 2024 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $9.89 at Steam. The main story takes about 9.7 hrs to finish.
What The Plucky Squire is
The Plucky Squire is an adventure game developed by All Possible Futures and released in 2024. It was published by Devolver Digital. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 5.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Plucky Squire follows the magical adventures of Jot and his friends - storybook characters who discover a three-dimensional world outside the pages of their book. When the malevolent Humgrump realizes he's the villain of the book - destined to lose his battle against the forces of good for all eternity - he kicks the heroic Jot out of its pages and changes the story forever. Jot must face challenges, unlike anything he's ever seen if he is to save his friends from Humgrump's dark forces and restore the book's happy ending.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 24 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Plucky Squire holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 90% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2024 averaged 76, so it scored 12 points above the year average. Players rate it 81, 7 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 9.7 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $9.89, that works out to about $1.02 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3-4160 / AMD FX-4350, 8 GB RAM and GeForce GTX 960 (4096Mb) / Radeon RX 460 (4096Mb). An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 27GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $9.89 at Steam, 67% below its usual price. Storefront pricing varies enormously by country: Pakistan is the cheapest region we track at $10.49 (about $10.49), while Germany pays €29.99 — 3.2 times more. In Pakistan it is priced at Rs 10 on Steam, which is about $10.49.
What it launched against
The Plucky Squire launched on 17 September 2024, within three weeks of Star Wars Outlaws, Silent Hill 2, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom and Astro Bot. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Star Wars Outlaws, Silent Hill 2, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, Astro Bot.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Plucky Squire yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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