Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze was developed by Retro Studios and was the fifth Donkey Kong Country game. Tropical Freeze doesn't try to reinvent the wheel, offering a similar brand of gameplay to its critically-acclaimed predecessors. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is one of many first-party Nintendo games that was originally a Wii U-exclusive but has since been released on the vastly more successful Nintendo Switch.
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
- Franchise
- Donkey Kong Country
- Platform(s)
- Switch , Nintendo Wii U
- Released
- February 21, 2014
- Developer(s)
- Retro Studios
- Publisher(s)
- Nintendo
- Genre(s)
- Platformer
- ESRB
- E For Everyone due to Mild Cartoon Violence
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