Feels like a true fourth movie
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“Back to the Future: The Game is the Back to the Future Part IV we never got.”
Steam review · 3.3 h played ↗
Back to the Future: The Game
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Very Positive · 89%Very Positive · 89%Telltale Games2010Point & Click · Adventure · Puzzle
The verdict
A faithful, charming Telltale point-and-click that plays like a fourth Back to the Future film, with great voice work but clunky controls and easy puzzles. Skip it if you don't love the movies.
Great for
Back to the Future fans who enjoy easy, story-driven classic point-and-click adventures
Main risk
Clunky controls and slow, tedious puzzle gameplay that only the movie nostalgia carries
What players love
Excellent voice acting and cast
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“the voice acting - hoo man the voice acting is amazing! Christopher Lloyd reprises his role as Emmet Brown”
Steam review · 5.3 h played ↗
Fan service, references and faithful writing
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“a wonderful love letter to fans of the franchise with just the right amount of a traditional adventure and humor along with great dialogue with plenty of references”
Steam review · 3.8 h played ↗
Charming cartoon art and soundtrack
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“the game takes a more stylized cartoonish approach to the characters rather than attempting realism - something that I personally rather enjoyed”
Steam review · 5.3 h played ↗
Easy, logical puzzles with a useful hint system
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“There's also a very well done in-game hint system which gives you advices and suggestions before actually telling you what to do next”
Steam review · 3.6 h played ↗
Story with cliffhangers that keeps you hooked
Mentioned in ~1 in 21 positive reviews
“this game has good cliffhangers and hooks”
Steam review · 3.7 h played ↗
What players complain about
Boring, slow gameplay
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“the gameplay is just extremely boring. I liked the story, the graphics and everything, but the gameplay is just unispired and dull.”
Steam review · 3.6 h played ↗
Clumsy controls and camera
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“The controls in this are legitimately the worst in any PC game I've played in the last 10 years.”
Steam review · 4.1 h played ↗
Obscure, tedious or illogical puzzles
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“the puzzles only come in two flavours, ridiculously easy (Put the key in the lock) to just bizarrely obscure”
Steam review · 2.4 h played ↗
Linear, with no meaningful choices
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“Also it doesn't matter what you say for literally any conversation choice.”
Steam review · 2 h played ↗
Bugs and game-breaking glitches
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“it has a GAME-BREAKING BUG in the first episode.”
Steam review · 1.6 h played ↗
Dated graphics, animation and audio
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“The animations are creepy and bad.”
Steam review · 2 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Unknown2 GB
Minimum
OSXP Service Pack 3 / Vista / Windows 7
Processor1.8 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent
Memory2 GB RAM
GraphicsATI or NVidia card w/ 256 MB RAM
Storage2 GB Space Free
Recommended
OSXP Service Pack 3 / Vista / Windows 7
Processor2.7 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent
Memory3 GB RAM
GraphicsATI or NVidia card w/ 512 MB RAM
Storage3 GB Space Free
OSXP Service Pack 3 / Vista / Windows 7
Processor1.8 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent
Memory2 GB RAM
GraphicsATI or NVidia card w/ 256 MB RAM
Storage2 GB Space Free
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