Bluey: The Videogame

The Good
It's Bluey. Bluey is amazing if you are young child or the parent of one. It has four player co-op. My kids love unlocking new hats and playing dress-up.

The Bad
For starters, the game is quite buggy. Multiple times we had to restart the game because one or all of the players was just stuck and could no longer move.

My kids are about the age of the kids in the show, and while they love and enjoy the treasure hunt aspect of the game, all the elements that require skill or timing are just too hard for them. This includes all mini-games that can be unlocked. Which is a bit of bummer. I feel that once they are experienced enough to properly play them, they might already find Bluey childish.

The Bottom Line
As an adult, the game doesn't have much to offer. All the Bluey characters are there, but it's missing much of the modern parenting situations and humor that makes the TV show fun. The visuals are fine, although the animation quality is way below the high quality bar of the show. As a game it's clearly aimed more at kids, but for some weird reason for much more experienced gamers than you'd expect for children in the 3-7 year old age category. Or perhaps I'm limiting screen time too much? ...

My kids love to explore the familiar locations, and liked seeing the scripted scenes. It's also great you can play with four players. But as their first game in which they manually control a 3rd person character (other than Mario Kart with all the aids on) it was on the difficult side for them, which did lead to a lot of frustration and some sessions which had to be cut short when emotions of frustration and defeat ran too high.

Maybe my 2⭐ review isn't fair, as my kids probably would still rate it 5⭐. In their mind they are Bluey and Bingo and they are really there. As a parent I was just hoping for a bit more relatable topics for the parents and a bit more content my kids can actually enjoy. Maybe they'll surprise me and still play this every now and then in a year or two and master those minigames...