Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse: Gameplay, Platforms and Key Facts

Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse (2010) is a point-and-click, adventure, indie video game developed by Telltale Games, available on PS3, PC, iOS, Mac. It holds an aggregated critic and player score of 73/100 on IGDB.

What is Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse about?

Wield psychic powers against fearsome foes in this epic 5 game comedy saga.

In The Devil’s Playhouse series, a mysterious power calls to the strongest and strangest who might wield it - intergalactic warlords and eldritch gods, under-dwellers and scholars of the arcane.

This first episode starts with a bang as gorilla invader Skunk'ape sets his sights on Max’s mysterious abilities. While mastering his future sight, teleportation, shape shifting and mind reading powers - and investigating their source - Sam & Max must fend off villainous Skunk’ape and get him banished to The Penal Zone.

The saga plays out in a surreal symphony of mayhem that gets deeper and more twisted with each episode.

• Episode 1: The Penal Zone
• Episode 2: The Tomb of Sammun-Mak
• Episode 3: They Stole Max's Brain!
• Episode 4: Beyond the Alley of the Dolls
• Episode 5: The City That Dares Not Sleep

Key details

Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse was released in 2010 and supports single player. Platforms: PS3, PC, iOS, Mac. Developer: Telltale Games.

Should you play Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse?

A solid 73/100 aggregate score makes Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse a safe pick for fans of point-and-click, adventure, indie.