This is the weirdest game I've ever played. I mean.. its not BAD if you're drunk or high or something. But how did they come up with this sh#t!?

I got it.. I can come up with a game like this:

How bout... You're a SHARK! and you gotta shake PALM TREES till TRAINS fall down, and you put the TRAINS in an APPLE and then TURKEYS come and eat the APPLE and then the TURKEYS go up WATERFALLS and to get them down you have to collect MONKEY BUTTS, so you drop the MONKEY BUTTS on POWER LINES and then....BOOOOOOOOSH!

I purposefully look out for weird, obscure games full of personality, so I'm not the best judge, but personally I'm in love with this game's weirdness. If you want new, never done before or after gameplay concepts, give this a shot. If you aren't one for something new, or just can't get past its weirdness, I'd say pass.

If you're gonna spend the $8 on this game, be prepared to beat it all in one sitting. I made it to level 16, saved it, and when I came back the next day I couldn't load the save file. I searched up and down google, YouTube playthroughs, and inquired on many posts. No one seems to know how to load the save file. I even found a PDF of the old user manual and it didn't explain how to do it. One would assume there is a way, given there is a save function. If anyone figures it out let me know.

If killing mutant penguins is your thing, I wouldn't recommend doing it this way. It is an interesting take on tower defense games though.

Attack Of The Mutant Penguins is a very fun and addicting game, popularised by the Angry Video Game Nerd. It is essentially a tower defence game with the addition of playable character who can freely move and attack. The story is light-hearted and the developers clearly wanted to make a fun and humorous game. The game can at first seem complicated, but everything is clearly explained in the manual (which comes with the steam release). The gameplay is simple and fun and the graphics are vibrant and unique. The sound is passable and the music is okay to add atmosphere to the stages. The stages themselves are based on generic environments such as: jungle, desert, icy mountains, horror themed and so on. The names of the stages are normally a play on pop-culture references. There are 20 stages in total and the game can be completed in several hours. Between stages there are minigames which, depending on how well you perform, can assist you on the upcoming stage, so always try to perform well on these. There are three minigames. There are three difficulty settings which can add a degree of replayablility and an endless mode that includes 4 levels. There are also training levels to help new players. This steam release of the game includes both the Jaguar release, and the MSDOS release. The Jaguar port runs poorly, as Jaguar emulation typical does, and it is an inferior port, so I suggest playing the DOS port exclusively. The Jaguar port is missing in-game music and features a few different levels, for those interested. Overall this is a great game and worth the £5 price tag. You should find yourself coming back to this game as it is very fun.

8.5/10
Pros:
- Good graphics and sprites
- Fun gameplay
- Unique story and creative game style

♥♥♥♥:
- Average sound

idk what the ♥♥♥♥ im playing but its kinda fun

Got it working on the Steam Deck (use the Gamepad controller settings if you're having difficulty), but even so it's just a little too retro for my taste. Game forces things to be on a timer, so not much fun; not enough to take the time to figure the rest of the game out and it is a weird one. More patient retro gamers might like this though.

If you are into beating penguins to death this game is for you

I have 1 question to whoever made this game?

WTF is your problem? This game is not only confusing, but also sucks.

I had a problem when using the gamepad, so I requested a refund for the game. I got it because of the nostagia since this was one of the titles for the Atari Jaguar. I never played it, so I wanted the experience.

However, it runs in DOSbox emulator, and i found it pretty expensive for what it is.

"Attack of the Mutant Penguins" is an ancient game from 1995, ported from the Atari Jaguar (yeah, Atari had a 16 bit console, and it died hard). It's a whopping 29 years old at the time of this review. The game lacks support for any modern gaming display resolutions (or widescreen monitors), hasn't been modernised or updated to run smoothly on modern gaming PCs. Despite this lack of modernisation, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an ancient game. This seems to have been put on Steam as a nostalgia gouge, or just a cash grab to try profit from abandonware.

This is an obscure 2D top down brawler/action game with an esoteric "haha look at me I'm weird" theme, not a particularly popular genre to begin with, so failing badly at it was an impressive feat. You may be wondering why a crap rejected 1990's Atari Jaguar game belongs on Steam and the answer is, you're right, it doesn't. This is another abandonware cash grab by Piko Interactive, who swindle their hands onto old abandoned/broken/dead games then try to swindle Steam gamers into paying them for someone else's old abandoned game. Ethical? Nope.

Gameplay is mediocre in this weird action brawler, with obtuse gameplay that involves collecting gremlins and shoving them into chests so you can unlock weapons like dynamite which you use to blow up the titular mutant penguins. The name itself is clearly a ripoff of the old Commodore 64 cartridge game, "Attack of the Mutant Camels" but the innovative developers replaced "Camel" with "Penguin". I wonder why the Atari Jaguar failed. Anyway.

The gameplay is clunky and unintuitive... and that, combined with the unclear and obtuse direction for the game leads to an ultimately terrible gaming experience so it's no surprise this one went straight into the bargain bins at the front of the store, where they were ignored, until presumably they were sent to join E.T. cartridges in a landfill.

From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.

A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result.

There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision.

The game only displays in 4:3 pillarboxed aspect ratio, due to the age of the game, it predates the 16:9 widescreen gaming standard established back in 2006. It's possible they're marketing this towards people using an old CRT they found in a dumpster, or this game is being specifically marketed towards people gaming on PC's from 1995... either way, this isn't really acceptable in the modern era of PC gaming. It's obviously not going to look right on a modern 16:9 gaming display.

Because this is designed for consoles, it carries a number of deliberate design deficiencies. Compromises were made to cater to the inferior console gaming appliances that the game was designed for. These are unfortunate compromises and limitations that PC gamers shouldn't be forced to accept, but it's evident that PC was a second thought for the console-centric developers. The game is deficient as a result of these choices, and would have been so much better without the handicaps that designing games for consoles forces upon a game. Once more, console peasants have made gaming worse for everyone.

These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.

The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 2 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.

"Attack of the Mutant Penguins" is relatively expensive for an abandonware nostalgia gouge, at $8 USD, and it's not worth it. The game is just too old, hasn't been modernised. And as the old saying goes, you can't go home again. Even when it was new, this was never a triple-A game. This is the kind of game that went almost directly from the warehouse into the cheap bargain bins at the front of the shop. Now, on Steam, without any modernisation? This is impossible to recommend. For comparison, the $8 asking price for this game could get you games like "Don't Starve Together", "Borderlands 2" or "Battlefield V". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this. There's also thousands of free, superior quality games on Steam.

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