Randal's Monday

Randal's Monday is a dark-comedy adventure game by Spanish indie developer Nexus Game Studio, released in 2014.

Randal's Monday
Developer(s)Nexus Game Studio
Publisher(s)Daedalic Entertainment
EngineUnity
Platform(s)Windows, macOS, Android, iOS & PS4
ReleaseNovember 12, 2014
Genre(s)Adventure

Game-play

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, Back to the Future, Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts, The Office, and Fraggle Rock. The game has different-colored lines of dialogue and emphasis on humor, like classic LucasArts games out of SCUMM.[2]

Plot

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.

Development

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 films Clerks and Clerks II, 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).

Critical reception

The game has a Metacritic rating of 57% based on thirty critic reviews.[4]

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".[5] 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.[6]

gollark: Stop them when they actually directly incite violence, I guess, but not before.
gollark: Later: *more speech inevitably censored*
gollark: "We must censor your speech slightly! Look, there's an outgroup there, it's totally necessary""What if you start doing more?""We totally won't! Also outgroup. Look, this is a bad outgroup"
gollark: So would shutting down far right forums, tronzoid.
gollark: We don't live in one. Talking about one doesn't make it happen.

See also

References
  1. "Randal's Monday". PC Gamer.
  2. Jeremy Signor. "Randal's Monday Review". GameSpot.
  3. Randal's Monday - Interview Jeff Anderson & Jason Mewes [ENG] on YouTube Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  4. "Randal's Monday". Metacritic.
  5. Chuck Osborn (1 December 2014). "Randal's Monday Review". IGN.
  6. Alonso, Álvaro (April 24, 2017). "Los mejores juegos españoles de todos los tiempos". HobbyConsolas (in Spanish). Archived from the original on July 23, 2019.
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