Bluey's Quest for the Gold Pen

Bluey's Quest for the Gold Pen offers everything we know and love about the franchise. With a great storyline and fun challenges, it's great for the whole family to play together in a non-competitive and wholesome way. Highly recommended for younger audiences or families to play together, despite it being single-player only.

A few final thoughts on Bluey’s Quest for The Gold Pen; I do wish Bluey moved faster, there were more quests and more variety for set collection. (This would have fleshed out each land for me and made the game a bit longer.) Fans of all ages will like this game. Cozy childhood nostalgia for some adults, and a fun romp in Bluey’s world with puzzles, gnomes, and Mum and Dad for the kids.

Bluey's Quest for the Gold Pen is a solid game, and thankfully they added voice acting outside of cutscenes in a patch, which means it's really only some of the more difficult puzzles that might lock it off for all age ranges, although co-operative play still would have been nice.

Bluey’s Quest for the Gold Pen is a charming collectathon that perfectly suits younger players, with simple puzzles, colorful levels, and plenty of Bluey magic. The lack of Dutch localization and co-op feels like a missed opportunity, though. Currently it is a bit pricey at full retail, but for the right price, it’s an easy recommendation for young Bluey fans.

Bluey's Quest for the Gold Pen is a substantial improvement over the last game, offering up a bunch of well-realised worlds to explore with charming visuals and engaging puzzles. It retains the essence of the original show, but thanks to the adorable narrative, Bluey and Bingo can finally break free from the overly-familiar TV locations. Repetition does quickly seep in thanks to the focus on collectibles, but I'd wager that younger audiences probably won't care about this too much. The lack of a proper co-op mode is a bizarre omission, however, and the experience would have definitely benefitted from voice acting throughout. Still, this is a fine effort from Halfbrick, and an easy recommendation for the summer break from school.

Bluey's Quest for the Gold Pen is a safe, cozy, and distinctly Bluey-styled adventure that understands its audience perfectly – even if it trades adult-sized thrills for a perfectly calibrated, frustration-free quest for the little tackers.

Bluey’s Quest for the Gold Pen is an unremarkable, mindless, repetitive bore only notable for its Bluey branding. The plot, a new story by the show’s creator, is barely a premise as the characters show no growth narratively or mechanically. Very young players might be entertained but will need a parent or older sibling to read the dialogue in this entirely single-player adventure. The touch controls from the original mobile release are here and work fine, though.