| Randal's Monday | |
|---|---|
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| Developer(s) | Nexus Game Studio |
| Publisher(s) | Daedalic Entertainment |
| Engine | Unity |
| Platform(s) | Windows, macOS, Android, iOS & PS4 |
| Release | November 12, 2014 |
| Genre(s) | Adventure |
Randal's Monday is a dark-comedy adventure game by Spanish indie developer Nexus Game Studio, released in 2014.
The game relies on a series of 'guesswork' puzzles. [1] The game contains references to media such as Portal , The Twilight Zone , The Shawshank Redemption , Clerks , Back to the Future , Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts , The Office , Blade Runner , Terminator and Fraggle Rock . The game has different-colored lines of dialogue and emphasis on humor, like classic LucasArts games out of SCUMM. [2]
The plot centers around a character named Randal, a sociopath and kleptomaniac, who becomes stuck in a Groundhog Day -esque loop. The game's dark humor has been compared to that of Hector: Badge of Carnage .
Randal's Monday was the first video game of Nexus Game Studio. [3]
Jeff Anderson, who played Randal, described the game as an homage to early 2D LucasArts titles. While this game contains a character named Randal, it bears no relation to the character from the View Askewniverse film franchise, also named Randal and played by Anderson. [3] In Clerks, Anderson's character was named Randal Graves, while in Randal's Monday, his character is named Randal Hicks, possibly a reference to another Clerks character, Dante Hicks (Brian O'Halloran).
| Aggregator | Score |
|---|---|
| Metacritic | PC: 57/100 [4] |
| OpenCritic | 57/100 [5] 10% Critics Recommend |
PC Gamer wrote "Randal's Monday gets it painfully wrong, mistaking convoluted and crazy for funny and logical to the point of being tedious and infuriating to play even with an in-game walk-through for when you've had enough." [1] Meanwhile, IGN said "Randal’s Monday has a clever premise that deserves better treatment than it does in this crude, baffling adventure". [6] GameSpot concluded "Randal's Monday is blind hero worship that ignores decades of design theory and leaves an unpleasant aftertaste thanks to its thoroughly unlikable, homogeneous cast." [2]
In 2017, HobbyConsolas named Randal's Monday one of the greatest Spanish games ever released. [7]
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