Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze cover art

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze

2014 · Retro Studios · ~12h to finish

Momentum platforming with hitboxes that reward commitment and punish hesitation. Funky Mode exists because the late levels ask for a great deal.

platformerNintendo Switch
GlobalUNRATED
Baseline difficulty4.5MODERATE

You will lose sometimes. You will not mind.

The fingerprint

12.55.07.510
Execution
5.4
Reaction
5.4
Learning Curve
5.0
Punishment
3.6
Obscurity
3.0
Grind
2.4
Strategy
1.5
Puzzle
1.5
PUBLISHEDHARDEST DEMAND FIRST
  • Execution drops 1.8 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Reaction drops 1.6 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Assist options shave roughly 4.9 points off, if you use them.
  • Not available on any platform you own.

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Screenshots

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Where it bites

SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT

No walls charted yet. If you have played this, you know where it bites — add the first one.

Assists & accessibility

0/2 SOURCED

CHALLENGE RELIEF

  • Granular assist sliders [unsourced]
  • Difficulty modes [unsourced]

Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.

What it is

All the challenging ground-pounding, barrel-blasting, side-scrolling mine cart action from the Donkey Kong Country series is back along with a bushel of new game-play elements and features.

Where to go from here

Argue with these asks

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