- Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Arcade, Action
Pong Quest is a new take on the seminal arcade smash. Take control of a brave young paddle and traverse treacherous lands - each loosely based on various classic Atari hits - in this uniquely Pong-themed dungeon-crawling RPG.
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Plot-driven, nostalgic, unpretentious and warm.
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Hardcore GamerJeremy PeeplesApr 20204/5Pong Quest overachieves and winds up delivering a top-notch game of Pong while also paying tribute to and expanding upon dungeon-crawling RPG tropes.
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Game InformerBrian SheaMay 20207.3/10While unique twists on the Pong formula make battles enjoyable at first, the repetition quickly wears on the experience
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SwitchRPGMike LubinskiJun 2020Pong Quest may masquerade as something new and fresh, but it very much remains the same decades-old game with only just a dusting of RPG mechanics.
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Nintendo LifeJon MundyMay 20204/10Sparsely laid out, mechanically simplistic, and generally a bit of a bore to play, PONG Quest fails to do anything meaningful with this most neglected of gaming properties. The adventuring element is paper-thin, and even the game of bat-and-ball at the heart of its battle system feels flat and lifeless. As always with Pong, local multiplayer is your best bet for fun, but there's little that's fresh about that.
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NintendoWorldReportBrett Posner-FerdmanMay 20203.5/10When I wasn't bored with the lack of substance to this game, I was aggravated by every enemy encounter and the core battle mechanics. When the best part of the game is the classic local multiplayer Pong experience from nearly 50 years ago, that should say a lot about the quality of the game. If you really want to play the original Pong on Switch, that should be the only reason you should be picking up this title.
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About the game
- Platforms
- PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
- Developer
- Chequered Ink Ltd
- Publisher
- Atari, Inc.
- Released
- April 21, 2020
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer
IGDB rating 6.2/10 from 5 ratings.
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