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''Randal's Monday'' is a dark-comedy adventure game by Spanish indie developer Nexus Game Studio, released in 2014.


Game-play

The game relies on a series of 'guesswork' puzzles. The game contains references to media such as ''
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Plot

The plot centers around a character named Randal, a sociopath and kleptomaniac, who becomes stuck in a ''
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Development

Randal's Monday was the first video game of Nexus Game Studio.
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Reception

PC Gamer wrote "''Randal's Monday'' gets it painfully wrong, mistaking convoluted and crazy for funny and logical to the point of being tedious and infuriating to play even with an in-game walk-through for when you've had enough." Meanwhile, IGN said "Randal’s Monday has a clever premise that deserves better treatment than it does in this crude, baffling adventure". GameSpot concluded "''Randal's Monday'' is blind hero worship that ignores decades of design theory and leaves an unpleasant aftertaste thanks to its thoroughly unlikable, homogeneous cast." In 2017, ''
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'' named ''Randal's Monday'' one of the greatest Spanish games ever released.


See also

*'' Dead Synchronicity''—Spanish-made adventure from the same period


References

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