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Is Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Oddworld fans who want a rebuilt version of Abe's original adventure
- Action-adventure players who enjoy stealth and environmental hazards
- Players who want both modern and classic-style control options
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a combat-focused game built around frequent weapon use rather than evasion and stealth
- Players who prefer a compact setting instead of travel across several regions with additional areas and secrets
- Players who do not want to adjust movement settings or learn multiple control schemes
Our take on Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty
The page emphasizes visual upgrades, audio changes, and broader gameplay, while the moment-to-moment activity centers on navigating hazards, avoiding guards, and escaping the meat-processing setting. The added areas and control options are clearer practical changes than the broad presentation claims.
What is Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty?
Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty follows Abe, a floor worker who discovers that his employer plans to turn the factory workforce into meat products.
Abe must escape RuptureFarms and travel through the Monsaic Lines, Scrabania, and Paramonia while avoiding guards, carnivorous creatures, mines, grinders, holding pens, and caves. The game adds analog movement, free aiming, backward grenade throwing, and crouching stealth. Optional controls restore hopping and digital movement. Controller and keyboard bindings can be changed in the game. The remake also includes new areas, secrets, altered gameplay elements, moving camera views, revised audio, and visuals reaching up to 4K.
How Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty plays
- 01Remappable Controls
- Controller and keyboard bindings can be changed through the in-game configuration menus.
- 02Optional Classic Handling
- Two alternate settings restore running and side-hopping behavior associated with the original control style.
- 03Stealth Actions
- Abe can crouch, move quietly, aim freely, and throw grenades backward.
- 04Expanded Environments
- The journey includes RuptureFarms, the Monsaic Lines, Scrabania, and Paramonia, with added sections and secrets.
- 05High-Resolution Presentation
- The remake includes moving camera views, revised sound, and display output reaching 4K.
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Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty: platforms & release
Is Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty worth it?
It is worth it if: oddworld fans who want a rebuilt version of Abe's original adventure. Skip it if: players seeking a combat-focused game built around frequent weapon use rather than evasion and stealth.
Where can I download Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty on?
Windows and Linux.
