Sam & Max Save the World is now available for Xbox One via the Microsoft Store, developer Skunkape Games has announced.
While Sam & Max Save the World is now available for Xbox One, the remastered version of the game was previously released for Windows PC (via Steam and GOG) and Nintendo Switch back in 2020.
The remastered version of the game came under scrutiny when developer Skunkape Games announced they censored jokes from the original game they deemed too offensive for modern audiences, as well as recast a voice actor for not sharing the race of the character they were portraying – read more about that here in our previous report.
Here’s a new trailer for the port:
Here’s a rundown on the game:
Sam is a six-foot canine detective with a love of justice. Max is a hyperkinetic rabbity-thing with a taste for mayhem. Together, they’re the Freelance Police. And they’re about to save the world.
It’s just another day at the office when the Commissioner calls in with a disturbing report: former child stars are running amok in the street! What starts as an open-and-shut case of idiotic vandalism balloons into an all-out conspiracy as Sam and Max encounter one miscreant after another who have been mysteriously hypnotized. (You can tell from the “spinny thing” they do with their eyes.)
Who’s the source of this malfeasance, and what is their dastardly plan? Cracking this case will require Sam’s nose for detective work, Max’s lack of conscience, an assortment of inventory items, and a little help from neighbors Sybil Pandemik, Bosco, and Jimmy Two-Teeth. From Sam & Max’s street to the White House lawn, inside the internet, and all the way to the moon, this baffling mystery gets weirder and funnier as it unfolds.
ABOUT THIS REMASTER
In 2006, the comic book crime-fighting duo Sam & Max starred in the first full-fledged episodic game from Telltale, the studio that went on to make The Walking Dead and Batman: The Enemy Within.
Now everyone’s favorite dog and rabbity-thing are back in Sam & Max Save the World Remastered, a new version of their first season of episodic games that has been lovingly updated by a small group of the original developers with the blessing of Sam & Max creator Steve Purcell.
Return to the adventure game that was once called “gaming’s first sitcom” and is today known as “the remaster you didn’t know you were waiting for.” With enhanced graphics, five new musical tracks, and the same brain-tickling puzzles and offbeat humor that won it IGN’s Best Adventure GOTY award back in the day, Sam & Max Save the World Remastered is a modern classic that you’ll love to play—or play again.
Features
- Six cases that feed into an overarching mystery
- Beautifully remastered with updated lighting, graphics, lip sync, camerawork, and more
- Puzzles that will stretch your brain, not break it
- Original jazz score with five new tracks composed by Jared Emerson-Johnson
- Lots of jokes!