Playdead's Limbo launched on Xbox Live Arcade in July 2010 as part of Microsoft's Summer of Arcade. Its monochrome silhouettes, giant spider and puzzle-platforming won dozens of awards and helped make downloadable indie games a mainstream category.
- Developer
- Playdead
- Publisher
- Microsoft Game Studios
- Released
- 21 July 2010
- Platforms
- Xbox 360 (XBLA)
- Genre
- Puzzle-platformer
- Kind of game
- console
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