80 Days

• Title — 80 Days • Developer — Inkle • Publisher — Inkle • Director — Joseph Humfrey Jon Ingold • Writer — Meg Jayanth Jon Ingold • Artist — Jaume Illustration Joseph Humfrey Alan Dukes • Composer — Laurence Chapman • Platforms — iOS Android Windows Mac Nintendo Switch • Released — iOS July 31, 2014 Android December 15, 2014 Windows, Mac September 29, 2015 Switch October 1, 2019 • Genre — Interactive fiction, Adventure • Modes — Single-player

• Illustration — The player makes choices that impact the direction the story takes. The plot is loosely based on Jules Verne's 1873 novel Around the World in Eighty Days. The year is 1872 and Monsieur Phileas Fogg has placed a wager at the Reform Club that he can circumnavigate the world in eighty days or less. The game follows the course of this adventure, as narrated by Phileas Fogg's manservant Passepartout, whose actions and decisions are controlled by the player. After leaving London on an underwater train to Paris or a mail carriage to Cambridge, the player can choose their own route around the world, travelling from city to city. Each city and journey contains unique narrative content. The developers estimate that on one complete circumnavigation of the globe players will see approximately 2% of the game's 750,000 words of textual content. In their role as valet, the player must manage their finances, their master's health, and time, as well as buying and selling items in different markets around the globe. The choices made by the player in story sections can also have a large impact on how the journey proceeds. The game has several secrets, easter eggs and hidden endings, as well as several references to Verne's works, including Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and From the Earth to the Moon. The game is partly inspired by the steampunk genre, featuring such elements as sapient mechanical transport, hovercraft, submersibles and a city that walks on four gigantic legs.