80 Days (2005 video game)

80 Days (Ukrainian: Вокруг света за 80 дней) is a video game developed by Frogwares released in 2005 for Windows, based on the 1873 Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days.

80 Days
Developer(s)	Frogwares
Publisher(s)	EU: Focus Home Interactive[1] NA: Tri Synergy
Producer(s)	Waël Amr Pascal Ensenat
Designer(s)	Aurélie Ludot
Programmer(s)	Anton Schekhovtsov
Artist(s)	Ludmila Kotsurba
Writer(s)	Pascal Ensenat Aurélie Ludot Waël Amr
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows
Release	EU: 4 November 2005 NA: 12 December 2005
Genre(s)	Adventure
Mode(s)	Single-player

Gameplay

The game is a typical adventure game. The player must collect objects and go to particular locations to reach the next objective. However, there are three limitations: time, money and fatigue. The latter may be ignored using means of transport and can be restored by eating food.

Plot

Matthew Lavisheart is a proud gentleman and engineer. He makes a bet, showing that he took part at inventing the most important gadgets at the time by delivering the documents that approve this in maximum 80 days. The problem is that these documents are scattered, in four of the most important cities of the world: Cairo, Bombay, Yokohama and San Francisco.

Matthew begs his nephew, Oliver, to get these documents for him. Oliver accepts, as he wants to escape a marriage that his parents want. And so, Oliver leaves for Cairo.

Reception

Aggregate score

Aggregator	Score
Metacritic	58/100[2]

Review scores

Publication	Score
Adventure Gamers	[3]
Computer Gaming World	[4]
GameSpot	5.1/10[5]
GameZone	7.5/10[6]
IGN	7/10[7]
PALGN	4.5/10[8]
PC Gamer (US)	61%[9]
The New York Times	(mixed)[10]

Reception

80 Days received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.^[2] PC Gamer US gave it 61% nearly a year after the game was released in the United States.^[9]

References

1. Legally, Focus Home Interactive was not a publisher but a licensee (distribution intermediary): "It needs to be clear it wasn’t a “developer and publisher” situation" (Waël Amr), Planète Aventure, 22 February 2020.
2. "80 Days (2005) for PC Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
3. Michaud, Rob (21 January 2006). "80 Days Review". Adventure Gamers. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
4. Gehringer, Stephen (February 2006). "80 Days" (PDF). Computer Gaming World. No. 259. p. 77. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
5. Davis, Ryan (27 January 2006). "80 Days Review". GameSpot. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
6. Lafferty, Michael (23 January 2006). "80 Days - PC - Review". GameZone. Archived from the original on 5 October 2008. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
7. Butts, Steve (13 January 2006). "80 Days". IGN. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
8. Jastrzab, Jeremy (6 April 2006). "80 Days Review". PALGN. Archived from the original on 19 September 2006. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
9. "80 Days". PC Gamer. November 2006. p. 120.
10. Herold, Charles (7 January 2006). "Circumnavigating This World, and a Visit to Another". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 July 2017.

External links

• Official website (archived)
• 80 Days at MobyGames