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Bad Piggies
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Game data
Metacritic 83- Released
- 2012-09-27
- User rating
- 3.93 / 5
- Genres
- Casual, Arcade, Puzzle
- Platforms
- PC, iOS, Android
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Game details · IGDB
Bad Piggies is a puzzle video game and a spin-off to Angry Birds. Unlike previous games in the series, in this entry the player controls the pigs, building devices that travel on land and air to find pieces of a map to find the Angry Birds' eggs The objective of the game is to build a contraption that transports the pig from a starting point to the finish line, usually indicated by a map. Such contraptions are made of wood and iron as well as other objects such as wheels, soda bottles, umbrellas (to increase air resistance), motors, fans, TNT, and balloons.
- Released
- 2012
- Genres
- Puzzle
- Platforms
- BlackBerry OS, Windows Phone, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac
- Game modes
- Single player, Battle Royale
- Engine
- Unity3D
- Franchise
- Angry Birds
- Developer
- Rovio Entertainment
- Publisher
- Rovio Entertainment
Key facts
- Developer
- Rovio Entertainment
- Publisher
- Focus Multimedia (PC)
- Producers
- Petri Järvilehto, Mikael Hed, Jaakko Haapasalo
- Designers
- Markus Tuppurainen, Peter Urbanics
- Programmers
- Marco Rapino, Miika Virpioja, Mauricio Hollando, Jussi Markkanen
- Composer
- Ilmari Hakkola
- Series
- Angry Birds
- Engine
- Unity 3D
- Platforms
- Android iOS OS X Windows Windows Phone
- Release
- September 27, 2012, Windows Phone :, April 2014
- Genres
- Puzzle , sandbox
- Mode
- Single-player
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Encyclopedic overview
Bad Piggies is a 2012 puzzle video game developed by Rovio Entertainment. It is a spinoff in the Angry Birds series and revolves around the green pigs rather than the birds. The player is tasked with building custom vehicles using various objects to guide a pig to the finish line, with levels having multiple solutions and optional additional goals being achievable by applying alternate strategies. A sandbox mode, which allows the player to freely build any vehicle, is also featured.
Bad Piggies was initially released on September 27, 2012, being ported to numerous mobile devices and personal computers. It received generally positive reception from critics, being frequently criticised for its difficulty, and has been downloaded 100 million times. A sequel, titled Bad Piggies 2, was soft launched in 2023.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bad Piggies” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.