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Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse - Episode 1: The Penal Zone (2010)

Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse - Episode 1: The Penal Zone cover
Developer
Telltale Games
Platforms
PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac
Genres
Point-and-click, Adventure
Rating
4.0 of 5, 9 player ratings
Main story
about 5.0 hours
Completionist
about 6.0 hours
Where to get it
Steam

How it feels

A zany, joke-dense adventure that treats psychic powers and cosmic threats with a light, absurd comedic touch.

comedicwhimsicalquirkymystery-lightepisodicabsurd

About

Wield psychic powers against fearsome foes in this epic 5 game comedy saga. In The Devil’s Playhouse series, a mysterious power calls to the strongest and strangest who might wield it - intergalactic warlords and eldritch gods, under-dwellers and scholars of the arcane. This first episode starts with a bang as gorilla invader Skunk'ape sets his sights on Max’s mysterious abilities. While mastering his future sight, teleportation, shape shifting and mind reading powers - and investigating their source - Sam & Max must fend off villainous Skunk’ape and get him banished to The Penal Zone. The saga plays out in a surreal symphony of mayhem that gets deeper and more twisted with each episode. * Episode 1: The Penal Zone * Episode 2: The Tomb of Sammun-Mak * Episode 3: They Stole Max's Brain! * Episode 4: Beyond the Alley of the Dolls * Episode 5: The City That Dares Not Sleep

Screenshots

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