Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
Developer(s)	Oddworld Inhabitants Digital Dialect (PC) Saffire (Game Boy)
Publisher(s)	GT Interactive
Director(s)	Lorne Lanning
Producer(s)	Frank Simon
Designer(s)	Paul O'Connor Jeff Brown
Programmer(s)	Christophe Chaverou Eric Yiskis
Artist(s)	Gerilyn Wilhelm
Composer(s)	Ellen Meijers
Series	Oddworld
Platform(s)	PlayStation MS-DOS Windows Game Boy
Release	September 18, 1997 PlayStation NA/PAL: September 18, 1997[1][2] PC NA: November 11, 1997[3] EU: 1997 Game Boy 1998
Genre(s)	Cinematic platformer
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee is a platform video game developed by Oddworld Inhabitants and published by GT Interactive. It was released in 1997 for the PlayStation game console, and computers running MS-DOS and Windows. A Game Boy version was released as Oddworld Adventures in 1998.

The game centers on the eponymous Abe, a meek Mudokon slave at the RuptureFarms meat processing factory. When he discovers that he and his fellow Mudokons are to be slaughtered to make a new product, Abe decides to escape and liberate as many enslaved Mudokons as he can. The player assumes the role of Abe as he attempts a perilous quest to emancipate his downtrodden people.

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee was widely acclaimed for having innovative gameplay, good art direction and engaging cutscenes; however, its difficult learning curve and system of only saving at checkpoints received criticism. By December 2012, the game sold 3.5 million copies worldwide, thus making it one of the best-selling PlayStation video games of all time. It was the first game in the planned five-part Oddworld series, which includes the direct sequels Abe's Exoddus (1998), Munch's Oddysee (2001) and Stranger's Wrath (2005). A remake of the game, titled Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty!, was developed by Just Add Water and released in 2014.