My only complaint would be that it says 'complete' pack but it has no keen dreems has no aliens ate my baby sitter.

The One True Keen.

I won't spend a dime on your mobile trash.

A good collection, but where is Aliens Ate my Baby Sitter and Keen Dreams?!

This pack isn't "complete".

One of the icons of the DOS era. They label this as the "Complete Pack", but it is missing a few games (Keen Dreams & Aliens Ate My Babysitter).

Dopefish Lives!

Some kids had Mario, some kids had Sonic, but we knew that Keen was where it's at.

Commander Keen is a great game series, I loved it growing up and still do! But this version isn't great, quite the opposite.

First of all, it's a lie. It is not the complete pack, not by a long shot. It's missing Keen 6: Alien Ate My Babysitter and Keen Dreams (in my opinion the best in the series). Of course, it's also missing the 2001 Commander Keen, but since that only came out for Game Boy Color, that's more understandable.

Secondly, it's just a bad DOS port, which is pretty lazy and means that there aren't really any reason to chose this version over all the others out there. The port is very slow to start and often have problems starting up, i'd had to restart and restart it several times to get it to work. It opens two dos windows, but only one is the actual game and often, it doesn't by it self change to the one it needs. So you have to do it manually. The problem being, beyond it's embarrassing for the producers, that if you change out of the dos windows and back, then the game window becomes very small and you have to restart the game in order to fix it. There are also common graphic mistakes where the screen shakes and colors change for a moment.

Thirdly, being a steam version, it's a problem that the steam controller doesn't work, at least not without reconfiguration.

Lastly, it comes as 1 icon on the desktop and pressing that, you only gets the first episode, not the other 4 that's included. According to some on the community board, it's supposed to ask which version to start, but for me and several others, it never does. Meaning that you have to go in to the steam client and right click the game in order to chose which episode to play. Also meaning that it would have been a lot easier getting each episode separated than buying this embarrassing garbage version.

Well, this game was one of my first games I ever played on pc in my childhood and was one of my favourites. Brought back so much good memories playing it again.
Can only recommend it.

WHAT HAS BETHESDA DONE TO MY BOI BILLY BLAZE?!!

This is the real Keen series, not that bs mobile game they're trying to make.
How the hell do you screw up so bad? This was the very first platforming game on DOS that had sidescrolling technology. It was revolutionary at the time and showed that DOS could do platformers too just like the NES.
You had ONE job Bethesda, to make another sidescroller that fits with the series. But instead you choose to make something that has literally nothing to do with the series or the genre it spawned. The biggest sin of all was not letting Tom Hall work on it, he's also heartbroken about the way this game went.

Anyways, if you're here for a review on this pack itself, it's worth every penny. It's the original series, and the real deal. Although you might wanna take note that there was a "Keen Dreams" And "Keen 6: Aliens Ate My Babysitter" that for some strange reason aren't included in here. Anyways, still a great bang for your buck and you'll have a crap ton of playtime. Especially since all these games are so replayable.

Edit: Don't be fooled by my low steam hours, I have played this game endlessly over the course of the years. :) It's the same games just with a DOSBox release.

NOTE: This is not the "complete" CK collection. It's missing CK 6, and from what I understand, it's because ID software lost the rights to publish it. Also the games run very slow on full screen and while they run fine when windowed, it's far to small then. This seems to be the case since steam uses an out dated dosbox(0.70 I think). You can update the dosbox but you need to go to the community guides. I didn't like the hassle, so I played these games outside of steam. All these things are a very resonable deal breaker. However, my review will be on the games themselves.

Commander Keen is a platformer originally for MS-DOS back in 1990. I never played them till now and I was at first confused. These were well loved games and...I wasn't enjoying them. At first. Part one-three is hit or miss. I liked the retro feel and some ideas were nice(enemies not jumping in the dark is kinda cool for this time period) and jumping on a pogo stick was fun. Shooting enemies with your lazer is satisfiying.But the deaths could be very cheap and there is a jumping animation where he bends his knees making it take a sec for him to jump. If you are being shot at by an enemy off screen, this will get you killed. I also hate the enemies who take multiple hits to kill since they are faster than you (one level had three enemies at once that were like this). I did enjoy story, I find the idea of keen making a spaceship from house hold items to be very amusing and it all sounds like a cartoon from the 60's-70's. So I was a bit mixed. Then I played part 4. This was a massive improvement over the other three. All of my problems are pretty much gone. But there is one nitpick. When you jump the screen doesn't scroll with you until you land. This has killed me a few times, and I had to get used to the hit detection a bit(although it was worse in the first three)but overall I found part four and five to be totally worth my time.

8/10 graphics-they have aged a bit. But they're pleasant and nice to look at. The last two games are much better looking than the first three.

8/10 sound- The sound is very limited on the first three as it had limited hardware but the last two are a massive step up. I think I even heard a track that they later used in doom, on keen part four.

7/10 controls- I talked about the delayed jump in keen one through three but when you get to the later games there isn't a whole lot wrong.

8/10 gameplay- Solid on all five games aside from some issues I mentioned.

8/10 replayability- Secret levels and optional ones lead to some really good replays.

8/10 overall- If it seems like i'm harping too much on the first three I don't mean to. They are good, just flawed. But the last two are worth the price on their own.

Such nostalgia for me because it's the first game I ever played probably.