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To Be or Not To Be

Guide Hamlet, Ophelia and Hamlet Sr. to hundreds of hilarious deaths in Ryan North's chooseable-path edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet!

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Very Positive (208) - 90% of the 208 user reviews for this game are positive.

Release Date:

Feb 4, 2015

Developer:

Tin Man Games

Publisher:

Tin Man Games

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	Interface	Full Audio	Subtitles
English	✔	✔	✔

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Title: To Be or Not To Be
Genre: Adventure, Casual, Indie

Developer: Tin Man Games

Publisher: Tin Man Games

Release Date: Feb 4, 2015

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Reviews

“An energising and hilariously funny version of Hamlet, Ryan North's To Be Or Not To Be is a crucial gamebook for literature buffs and comedy fans alike”
9/10 – Pocketgamer

“This game is utterly uproarious, and Tin Man did a great job at using their gamebook engine, along with their visual and music touches, at making this come to life.”
5/5 – Touch Arcade

“...an idea that is, by most conventional literary standards, terrible, but pushed so far past terrible that it wraps around like a comet slingshotting around the sun and comes back as utterly brilliant.”
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About This Game

The greatest work in English literature, now in the greatest format of English literature: a chooseable-path adventure!

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet has finally been restored to its original second-person non-linear branching narrative format. Now it’s up to YOU to decide what happens next. Play as Hamlet and revenge your father’s death. Play as Ophelia and make scientific discoveries. Play as King Hamlet, Sr. and die on the first page!

Discover sweet art as you play from some of the coolest and most attractive artists of Our Time, including Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant), Anthony Clark (Nedroid), Mike Krahulik (Penny Arcade), Matthew Inman (The Oatmeal), Ethan Nicolle (Axe Cop), Andrew Hussie (MS Paint Adventures), Zach Weiner (Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal) and WAY more than I can fit in this paragraph. See ALL the artists at this handy link!

System Requirements

Windows

macOS

SteamOS + Linux

Minimum:

OS *: Windows XP SP3
Processor: 2 GHz dual core
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Hardware Accelerated Graphics with dedicated memory
Storage: 1 GB available space

Recommended:

OS *: Windows 7/8
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Hardware Accelerated Graphics with 1GB memory
Storage: 1 GB available space

* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.

Minimum:

OS: Mac OS 10.7.5+
Processor: 2 GHz dual core
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Hardware Accelerated Graphics with dedicated memory
Storage: 1 GB available space

Recommended:

OS: Mac OS 10.8
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Hardware Accelerated Graphics with 1GB memory
Storage: 1 GB available space

* Starting February 15, 2024, the Steam Client will no longer support 32-bit games or macOS 10.14 or lower.

Minimum:

Processor: 2 GHz dual core
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Hardware Accelerated Graphics with dedicated memory
Storage: 1 GB available space

Recommended:

Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Hardware Accelerated Graphics with 1GB memory
Storage: 1 GB available space

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