Costume Quest
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Published by

THQ Inc.

Developed by

Double Fine Productions, Inc.

Released

Oct 20, 2010

Platforms

iPad, iPhone, Linux, Macintosh, PlayStation 3, Windows, Xbox 360

Genre

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Setting

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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.

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Screenshots

Costume Quest Windows Overview of the collected battle stamps. You assign them to the characters on the right.

Costume Quest Windows Victory screen. Loot consists of experience, candy, creepy treat cards and sometimes battle stamps.

Costume Quest Windows Success! You received candy.

Costume Quest Windows A burning man in the third main area of the game

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User Reviews

A short but sweet adventure	Xbox 360	Kartanym (12749)
Double Fine should just stop making games already.	PlayStation 3	Lain Crowley (6787)
Trick or Treat! It's a Halloween RPG!	Windows	Baxter Arnett (15)

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Critic Reviews

Eurogamer.net (UK)	PlayStation 3	Oct 21, 2010	8 out of 10	80
Retro Spirit Games	Windows	Nov 02, 2013		80
IGN	Windows	Nov 01, 2011	8 out of 10	80
Giant Bomb	PlayStation 3	Oct 20, 2010		80
Giant Bomb	Xbox 360	Oct 20, 2010		80
IGN	PlayStation 3	Oct 20, 2010	7.5 out of 10	75
IGN	Xbox 360	Oct 20, 2010	7.5 out of 10	75
GameSpot	Xbox 360	Oct 20, 2010	7 out of 10	70
GameSpot	PlayStation 3	Oct 20, 2010	7 out of 10	70
Jeuxvideo.com	Windows	Oct 17, 2011	14 out of 20	70