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Game profile
Super Mario Odyssey
Mario travels with his possessable cap Cappy through colorful, open ended kingdoms to save Princess Peach from Bowser's wedding plans. One of the most creative and joyful 3D platformers ever made.
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What kind of game this is
At its core this is Platformer / Adventure, set in a fantasy world. Visually it is deliberately stylised rather than photorealistic, and the overall tone stays light and upbeat. The structure is guided rather than open, so you are moved along instead of dropped into a map. It is built around short sessions, which makes it easy to pick up for half an hour.
Difficulty stays forgiving, so progress rarely depends on your reflexes. Story exists mostly as background texture rather than a reason to keep going. It is a single player experience from start to finish. It is available on one platform. It sits in the mid price bracket.
What stands out
- Cappy possession mechanic
- Creative variety of kingdoms
- Pure platforming joy
This fits you if
- you want to wind down rather than be tested
- exploring for its own sake is the point for you
- you usually have thirty to sixty minutes and want that to be enough
- you want zero frustration and no difficulty wall
- you play alone and want a complete experience without other people
- you want something light that leaves you in a good mood
Look elsewhere if
- you need real difficulty to stay interested
- you specifically want an open world to roam
- you want to play it side by side with someone
- you want something with real weight to it
What it costs you in time
About 20 hours in total. At three evenings a week and two hours each, you will be busy for roughly 3 weeks, or 10 sessions.
How the rating ranks
Critics settled on 97 out of 100, which puts it above 100 percent of the 1206 games here and at rank 6 overall. That is top tier. Only a handful of games here score higher.
For comparison, Platformer averages 84 points across the database, so this one sits 13 points above its own genre. The figure rests on 1856 collected ratings.
Released in 2017, so it has 9 years behind it. Usually cheap by now and the rough edges are long fixed.
The facts
- Release year
- 2017
- Genres
- Platformer, Adventure
- Playtime
- approx. 20 hrs.
- Difficulty
- Relaxed, forgiving
- Story weight
- Background flavour
- Play with
- Solo
- Setting
- Fantasy
- Visual style
- Stylised
- Price bracket
- Mid price
- Platforms
- Switch
- Critic rating
- 97 / 100
Direct comparison
| Genres | Release year | Playtime | Critic rating | Price bracket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Super Mario Odyssey | 2017 | approx. 20 hrs. | 97 | Mid price |
| Orchard Odyssey: Pumpkin Party | 2025 | approx. 12 hrs. | 84 | Mid price |
| Spyro Reignited Trilogy | 2018 | approx. 20 hrs. | 84 | Mid price |
| SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide | 2025 | approx. 8 hrs. | 71 | Mid price |
If you liked this, try these
- Orchard Odyssey: Pumpkin Party Shared: Platformer, Adventure, Fantasy, shorter
- Spyro Reignited Trilogy Shared: Platformer, Adventure, Fantasy
- SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide Shared: Platformer, Adventure, Fantasy, shorter
- Orchard Odyssey: Chestnut Christmas Shared: Platformer, Adventure, Fantasy, shorter
- Orchard Odyssey: Cherry Chase Shared: Platformer, Adventure, Fantasy, shorter
- Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy Shared: Platformer, Adventure, Fantasy, shorter