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Wonder Boy Returns

A classic action masterpiece arcade game Wonder Boy has been remade into HD! Food is important for a primitive man! Collect all food before your health gets depleted, defeat all enemies, avoid all obstacles…

62 12 October 2016

Wonder Boy Returns is an arcade developed by CFK Co., Ltd., released 12 October 2016 on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Wonder Boy Returns is

Wonder Boy Returns is an arcade game developed by CFK Co., Ltd. and released in 2016. It is available on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

A classic action masterpiece arcade game Wonder Boy has been remade into HD! Food is important for a primitive man! Collect all food before your health gets depleted, defeat all enemies, avoid all obstacles and head over to save Tina!
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How it plays

Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Wonder Boy Returns holds a critic score of 62 out of 100. That places it above 23% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 6 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Wonder Boy Returns launched on 12 October 2016, within three weeks of Battlefield 1, Titanfall 2, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition and Sid Meier’s Civilization VI. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Battlefield 1, Titanfall 2, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition, Sid Meier’s Civilization VI.

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When did Wonder Boy Returns come out?
Wonder Boy Returns was released on 12 October 2016 for PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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