- 70/100
- Players6 ratings
- 81/100
- Critics4 reviews
More scores
- Metacritic11 critic reviews
- 76/100
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 82/100
- GameFAQsJust Right-Tough
- 3.78/5
- Player reviews
- 91% positive248 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Verified
- Runs on
- Windows, Mac, Linux
- Price
- US$4.99
Where to get it
2015 · TreeFortress Games · Adventure · Indie
JumpJet Rex
Timed Xbox exclusive
JumpJet Rex is a punishing, old school 2-D platformer where players take control of a Tyrannosaurus Rex with extraterrestrial jump boots to save dino-kind from extinction by a giant asteroid.
- Released
- 21 April 2015
- Platforms
- LinuxPlayStation 4WindowsXbox OnemacOS
- Genres
- AdventureIndiePlatformerRacing
- Developers
- TreeFortress Games
- Publishers
- TreeFortress Games
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- Side view
- Themes
- ActionScience fiction
- Country
- Canada
- Age ratings
- ESRB E
- Languages
- English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish (Spain)
- Time to beat
- 3hmain story13hcompletionist
About
JumpJet Rex is a 2D platform game developed and published by TreeFortress Games. The game was released for Windows, OS X and Linux in April 2015. An Xbox One version was later released in April 2016 with a PlayStation 4 release following in June 2017.
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Gameplay
JumpJet Rex is a 2D platform game, in which players control the eponymous character, a space-exploring tyrannosaurus equipped with jet-propelled boots. Rex's jet boots give him the ability to hover, dash and boost.
Development
Developed by TreeFortress Games, JumpJet Rex original began as a project for a game jam in 2014. The game takes inspiration from classic platform titles of the 8-bit and 16-bit eras, such as Mega Man and Sonic the Hedgehog.
An in-development version of the game was released commercially through Steam Early Access for Linux, OS X, and Windows on January 14, 2015. The early access release featured the first dozen levels of the game. The game exited the early access phase and received an official release for PC platforms on April 22, 2015. The game was later released on the Xbox One video game console on April 29, 2016.
Reception
JumpJet Rex received a "generally favourable" reception from critics, with aggregate review website Metacritic assigning a score of 76 out of 100 based on 11 reviews.
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