Costume Quest

Discuss Review + Want + Have Contribute

Description

It's Halloween and the siblings Wern and Reynold, new to town, are going trick-or-treat through the neighborhood in order to make some new friends. The player can choose between both of them, while the other will be kidnapped by a monster neighbor. The quest, as expected, consists on rescuing your brother/sister.

Costume Quest is a RPG with turn-based combat. The game takes you door by door asking for candy and fighting against the monsters that you find in some of the houses with the power of your costume. There is around a dozen of them and they have the power to transform the wearer into vampires, robots, the statue of liberty and many other creatures. The combats plays through synchronized button pushing much like in the Mario RPGs. Combat abilities are enhanced by acquiring experience points through a typical leveling system. Additionally, "combat stamps", which is the name used in the game for combat enhancements, can be obtained in the side quests (like finding collectibles or helping the characters of the neighborhood), with candy as the currency to buy these.

Screenshots

Promo Images

Part of the Following Groups

• Costume Quest series
• Middleware: Scaleform GFx SDK
• Middleware: SDL
• Theme: Halloween

User Reviews

A short but sweet adventure	Xbox 360	Kartanym (12771)
Double Fine should just stop making games already.	PlayStation 3	Lain Crowley (6786)
Trick or Treat! It's a Halloween RPG!	Windows	Baxter Arnett (15)

Critic Reviews

IGN	Windows	Nov 01, 2011	8 out of 10	80
Retro Spirit Games	Windows	Nov 02, 2013		80
Giant Bomb	PlayStation 3	Oct 20, 2010		80
Eurogamer.net (UK)	PlayStation 3	Oct 21, 2010	8 out of 10	80
GameSpot	PlayStation 3	Oct 20, 2010	7 out of 10	70
GameZebo	Windows	Oct 26, 2011		70
GameSpot	Xbox 360	Oct 20, 2010	7 out of 10	70
4Players.de	Xbox 360	Nov 02, 2010	70 out of 100	70
Gameplay (Benelux)	PlayStation 3	Dec 24, 2010	67 out of 100	67
Thunderbolt Games	PlayStation 3	Mar 16, 2011	6 out of 10	60

Forums

There are currently no topics for this game.

Trivia

Credit sequence

Throughout the ending credits sequence pictures of some Double Fine developers are shown at a young age, fitting the game's theme.

Awards

• Spike Video Game Awards
  • 2010 - Best Downloadable Game

Related Web Sites

• X360A Achievement guide (X360A's achievement guide for Costume Quest. (English))