Kao the Kangaroo

Inspired by the golden age of 3D Platformers, Kao The Kangaroo returns in a whole new adventure! Embark on an epic journey, master magical gloves, explore lush environments and take Kao through his most grand tale yet!

Kao the Kangaroo is a 3d platformer, action and action-adventure game developed and published by Tate Multimedia.
Released on May 27th 2022 is available only on Windows in 15 languages: English, Polish, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Czech, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian and Spanish - Latin America.

It has received 891 reviews of which 725 were positive and 166 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.7 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Kao the Kangaroo into these genres:

3D Platformer Action Action-Adventure Combat Adventure Arcade Cute Cartoony Colorful Retro Collectathon Reboot Family Friendly Boxing Comedy Controller Soundtrack Singleplayer Funny Character Action Game

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Requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Win 10 or newer
Processor: i5 3300 3,20 GHz 4 cores/4 threads
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX 760 2 gb
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 9 GB available space

Reviews

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Oct. 2024

An incredibly charming 3D platformer that pays a nice homage to the previous three Kao games and uses elements and other touches from them all. It's silly, it's inventive, the game worlds are varied and gorgeous, and there's stuff to collect under every single nook and cranny everywhere you can see in all the worlds. Which is to say it follows all the beats of the best 3D platformers like Ratchet & Clank, Spyro, Jak & Daxter, and so on. The fact that it's made by the same company including many of the same people who made the original Kao trilogy back in the early 2000s is a nice little bit of video game history trivia. On the downside, the game is quite easy. There's a challenging section here and there, but you will never, ever come close to losing all your lives. Heck, it's pretty rare to lose any lives at all, and I was stacked up at 24(!) of them when I finished the game. But consider it more of a platform-puzzle adventure where you frequently swing the camera around to hunt for hidden areas and objects and to navigate your way through the game worlds. The in-world enemies are trivial and the end-world bosses are tricky until you figure out the solution to beating them. The game seemed to have a fair amount of problems when it first released, hence the negative reviews from back then, but they all seem to have been patched out now. One major tip though! Lock this game's FPS to 60 or else the hook swing maneuver sometimes doesn't work correctly. The FPS lock will also stop the camera from stuttering when you swing it around, and you need to swing it around constantly. All in all a fun, lighthearted, classic-styled 3D platformer that was mostly a joy to play. 8.5/10

Oct. 2024

~BENEFITS~ Kao the Kangaroo is a 3D platformer with fun and fast-paced combat with just the right amount of collectibles! Artwork for the characters and environments are wonderful! The combat and platforming feels very fluid and the controls are very responsive! ~DOWNSIDES~ Buggy Collision that forced me to restart the level from scratch multiple times, luckily your collectibles save. The constant pickup sound for Ducats can get very annoying after awhile. Very small complaint but Jokes feel a bit forces at times, and often made me cringe rather than laugh. DLCs ~CONCLUSION~ Quite possibly the funnest 3D platformer I've played from the 2020s! If you love 3D platforming this game is for you!

Sept. 2024

if you able to see through all the nitpick, this game is fine as it is. missing sound effect everywhere, object despawn wrongly sometime, the hook swing giving a wrong direction launch when release. the game length are on the shorter side for this game of this type but it's a good amount. The dialog being cheesy at first then getting better later. the combat is fine, there is a few tools they're provided. boss mechanics are fine, although the final boss is easier than the first ever boss of the game. the level design is pretty great! you can play them a few time and not got bored. progression tracker are slightly lacking, for someone who want to 110% complete the game may upset about this. overall, a good enough light-weight platformer game the relax and chill on.

Aug. 2024

After playing all four Kao games in a few days, I feel that this one is almost as good as Kao 2. A fun platformer overall, sometimes a bit too lenghty for its own sake. I found the cinematics too long and kind of annoying too. And the game also lacks a bit of polish but its' still way better than Kao 3. Also, don't bother whith the DLC unless you really want all the achievements.

March 2024

Decent 3D platformer with cheesy writing, vibrant and colorful visuals, variety in level designs and lots of collectibles. Each new zone introduces a different elemental property for your main weapon (boxing gloves) that will modify how you interact with objects in the world. Expect many borrowed platformer elements such as blower wheels, falling platforms, spike traps, lasers, large flying obstacles, movable pillars, trampolines and rail slides. Similar to Donkey Kong , KAO letters can be collected in each level as well as "Kao coins" that can be used to unlock extra lives or health. Negatives include unresponsive or delayed controls, voice acting is flat and lack of new combat mechanics. The DLC offers more challenging levels then the base game where the first level is by far the hardest and most frustrating. Would recommend to anyone that enjoys 3D platformers.

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