A Boy and His Blob

When Blobolonia is threatened by an evil Emperor, the blob comes to Earth looking for help. Instead, he finds a young boy. Help the blob dethrone the evil Emperor that's terrorizing Blobolonia and establish a friendship with the blob that will last a lifetime.

A Boy and His Blob is a adventure, puzzle-platformer and family friendly game developed by Abstraction Games and WayForward and published by Ziggurat.
Released on January 19th 2016 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 7 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil and Russian.

It has received 521 reviews of which 355 were positive and 166 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.5 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 4.49€ on Steam and has a 55% discount.

The Steam community has classified A Boy and His Blob into these genres:

Adventure Puzzle-Platformer Family Friendly Puzzle 2D Remake Platformer Cute Singleplayer Cartoony

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows 7-32Bit or Windows 8-32Bit
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+, 2.4GHz / Intel Pentium D 805 2.66GHz or higher
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 512 MB / ATI Radeon HD 4650 1GB or higher | Shader Model 3+
Storage: 3 GB available space

MacOS

OS: 10.10.2 (Yosemite)
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo @2.26 GHZ
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 @768 MB

Linux

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+, 2.4GHz / Intel Pentium D 805 2.66GHz or higher
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 512 MB / ATI Radeon HD 4650 1GB or higher | Shader Model 3+
Storage: 3 GB available space

Reviews

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Oct. 2024

the blob has no choice

March 2024

DISCLAIMER: I HAVE NOT PLAYED THE ORIGINAL NES VERSION. A Boy and His Blob is an engaging puzzle-platformer developed by WayForward Technologies™. It is my first time trying a game from this developer, and I loved almost every bit of it. It is by no means a difficult game, but it is not afraid to push you to use your brain, while also rewarding you greatly for doing so. You play as a Boy... and his Blob... Blob can take different shapes based on the jelly beans you are given in each level. The puzzles take full advantage of this system, and upon completing each level, you get a feeling of accomplishment that not a lot of puzzle-platformers can give. You collect treasure chests from each level, and eventually they all combine into viewable concept art, developer footage, and early level design. This is an apt reward given the effort you put in collecting these chests. I was always excited to see what new piece of art or footage I would be awarded upon completing a challenge. The game does falter with Blob's Artificial Intelligence, or lack thereof... I would not bring it up were it not significant enough to warrant it. Sometimes I would throw a jelly bean and wait longer than is necessary for Blob to come and digest it. Other times, Blob would get stuck to the point of me having to restart the entire level. This does add up and can create a tedious experience if one is not patient enough to deal with it. Assuming this game is targeting a younger demographic, this can be a big issue as children typically don't respond well to this. On this note, I would also add that this is a 13+ game, and not one for anyone younger. The E rating by the ESRB is generous given that some scenes are decently violent. One final gripe revolves around the jarring switch the environmental art takes towards the latter half of the game. Without spoiling much, I was not a big fan of how contrasted The Boy and His Blob looked relative to the environmental art. This is largely an issue with two out of four of the game's worlds, and is a majorly subjective point of contention. This is not to say that the art taken individually was bad; rather, it is to say that the cohesiveness of the art style when it was combined faltered. Whatever my gripes are, they are no match for my love of the ambitious Boy and his friendly Blob. At its core, I find that it is a game about friendship and tenacity in the face of a great danger. Alone, neither The Boy nor Blob can handle this great danger; only together are they able to overcome it. This is exemplified well when Blob receives its final transformation as a Mech. It can transform into this massive wobbly imitation of a metallic husk, but only with the help of the Boy can it fight with it. What this game did very well was make me a fan of of both puzzle-platformers and WayForward Technologies™. I am eager to play through their library of games in the near future, and I wholeheartedly recommend this game for anyone considering trying out a puzzle-platforming video game.

Jan. 2024

i know the mysterious blobby aka a boy and his blob is a classic but this is just a remake well since you know which god forsaken console however this needs to be updated if only if you want multiplayer. however this is just singleplayer sadly. but at least it might resembles older nes/famicom and gameboy ones.

Jan. 2024

Cute little puzzle game.

Dec. 2023

it's a really fun platformer and puzzle game rolled into one- thank god it has infinite lives or this game would be nigh impossible. some of the puzzles are a bit convoluted but they're all doable! good brain teaser with stunning visuals and lovely homey animation!

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Developer

Abstraction Games, WayForward

Publisher

Ziggurat

Release 19 Jan 2016

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