Ludography
70/100
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70/100
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Metacritic5 critic reviews
72/100
Metacritic usersuser score
73/100
GameFAQsEasy-Just Right
4.1/5
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93% positive579 reviews
Runs on
Windows, Mac, Linux
Price
US$11.99

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2017 · Mango Protocol · Adventure · Indie

Agatha Knife

Embark on a whimsically twisted adventure with Agatha, a child torn between her love for eating meat and her friendships with animals. Join her as she discovers religion and creates her own, Carnivorism, to convince the animals that the sacrifice of their flesh is the secret to their eternal happiness.

Released
27 April 2017
Platforms
AndroidLinuxNintendo SwitchPlayStation 4WindowsXbox OnemacOS
Genres
AdventureIndiePoint-and-click adventurePuzzle
Developers
Mango Protocol
Publishers
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Modes
Single-player
Perspective
Side view
Themes
Comedy
Country
Spain
Age ratings
USK 12GRAC 15+ESRB TPEGI 12ACB MCLASS_IND 12
Languages
English, English (UK), French, German, Italian, Korean, Russian, Spanish (Spain)
Time to beat
5.5hmain story6hcompletionist

About

Agatha Knife is a 2017 point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Mango Protocol. It is published by Plug In Digital for iOS and Android. Described as a "satirically humorous narrative adventure", the protagonist creates a religion to convince animals to be slaughtered. Agatha Knife was developed by Spanish independent developer Mango Protocol, and set in the 'Psychotic Adventures' narrative universe alongside the team's 2015 title MechaNika. The developers initially created the game using Java, and ported the game to Unity for a console release in 2018.

Agatha Knife received average reviews, with praise for its visual presentation and dark tone, and mixed views on the game's themes, gameplay, and puzzles.

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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

Agatha Knife is a point-and-click adventure game where players use the cursor to hover over items of interest and characters to interact with using context commands. Players progress by interacting with characters and using items by selecting collected items to use from a backpack inventory. Players control Agatha, who is a seven-year-old insomniac who lives with her mother in a butcher's shop that has trouble making ends meet. Over time, she develops a conflicted relationship between the animals, who she develops compassion for and loves to play with, and her desire to help her mother's business.

Agatha's mother prays for a solution. Agatha meets a man who offers to assist them with her problems and convinces her to start her own religion. Agatha develops her own religion, Carnivorism, in an attempt to convince the animals that they can reach the afterlife by sacrificing themselves.

Reception

Agatha Knife received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic. Reviewers praised the game's visual presentation and tone. Describing the art style as "charming", Adventure Gamers found the presentation to be both "rough" and "endearing", and depicted gory scenes in ways that were "cutesy enough to avoid being outright grotesque". Nintendo Life praised the "lovely" and "delightful style" of the game's line-drawn comic presentation.

Nintendo World Report similarly highlighted the game's "unique" art style and "intense attention to detail". Push Square praised the "distinctive art style" of the game's "simplistic, cartoonish aesthetic", finding it complemented the game's "charming and disturbing" subject matter.

Awards

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Linux27 April 2017Worldwide
macOS27 April 2017Worldwide
Windows27 April 2017Worldwide
Nintendo Switch26 April 2018North America
Xbox One27 April 2018Worldwide
PlayStation 412 September 2019North America · Europe 12 September 2019

Editions and related releases

Included in
Psychotic Adventures Origins

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