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The Wardrobe

The Wardrobe is a visually-rich 2D point and click adventure game inspired by the great '90s classics. The game has a strong sense of humour, but isn't shy about dealing with mature and non-politically correct…

26 January 2017

The Wardrobe is an adventure developed by CINIC Games, released 26 January 2017 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Linux and Mac.

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What The Wardrobe is

The Wardrobe is an adventure game developed by CINIC Games and released in 2017. It was published by Adventure Productions. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

It all happened five years ago, during a picnic arranged by Ronald and his best friend Skinny. Things were going well, until Ronald pulled out two very tiny plums from his basket, one for Skinny and one for him. Not knowing about his deadly allergy to plums, Skinny didn’t think twice about eating it, and immediately went into anaphylactic shock which caused his sudden death. Ronald ran off, terrified. When he woke up, Skinny discovered that he had become a skeleton and been sentenced to live in Ronald’s bedroom wardrobe forever. Since then, Skinny has watched over Ronald constantly, without his knowledge… but now things are going to change! To save his best friend’s soul from eternal…
Description from the publisher · source

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 Wardrobe launched on 26 January 2017, within three weeks of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, For Honor, Nioh and Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, For Honor, Nioh, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony.

Official trailer

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Screenshots

All media

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Quick answers

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When did The Wardrobe come out?
The Wardrobe was released on 26 January 2017 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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