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Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back

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Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back
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For a Limited time: Buy Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back now and receive the Bubsy OST for free! Our favorite Bobcat is making a triumphant return 20 years after virtually disappearing from the world stage (N64/PS1). Yes, that’s right, Bubsy is back and starring in an all new adventure, Bubsy: The...
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2017, Black Forest Games, ...
System requirements
Windows 7 / 8 / 10, Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.8 GHz / AMD Athlon II X2 @ 2.8 GHz, 3 GB RAM, Nvidia GeForc...
Time to beat
1 hMain
2.5 h Main + Sides
5.5 h Completionist
2 h All Styles
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For a Limited time: Buy Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back now and receive the Bubsy OST for free!



Our favorite Bobcat is making a triumphant return 20 years after virtually disappearing from the world stage (N64/PS1). Yes, that’s right, Bubsy is back and starring in an all new adventure, Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back! Yep, those no good, yarn stealing always annoying intergalactic trolls, the Woolies, are up to their no good ways once again! They’ve stolen Bubsy’s most prized possession, the Golden Fleece. Now Bubsy is on a one Bobcat mission taking on Woolies, Bumble Bees, Sharks, and UFO's to collect an insane amount of yarnballs and bring his Holy Grail of Wool home.

2D, or not 2D? Bubsy thinks 3D is so 1998 that he’s going back to the 2D well with a huge assist with his good friends at Black Forrest for 14 rip roaring levels of side scrolling action. Watch Bubsy glide like Bat, jump like a jack rabbit, bounce like a red rubber ball and run…run Bubsy run. This is the Bubsy adventure you were born to play.

  • 2.5D Platformer with beautiful 3D models and stunning levels and backgrounds
  • Multitude of character animations and expressions that brings the Iconic Bubsy to life as never before
  • Jump, glide, and pounce through 14 levels of thrill, excitement and yarn!
  • Local and global leaderboards - compete for high scores with your friends and the world!
  • Unlock treasures, powers, and extra lives to create all time high scores

All trademarks referenced herein are the properties of their respective owners  ©2017 Billion Soft (Hong Kong) Limited. All rights reserv

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Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
1 hMain
2.5 h Main + Sides
5.5 h Completionist
2 h All Styles
Game details
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11)
Release date:
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Posted on: October 2, 2025

NullNobody

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Games: 308 Reviews: 2

Mediocre and bland. Liked it regardless.

If looked at objectively, the game is the very definition of mediocrity and blandness. It's a very simplistic and rather barebones 2.5D platformer, with pretty much nothing that would make it stand out against the competition, other than featuring the infamous bobcat. You can jump, you can climb specific walls, you can glide, you can pounce (i.e. jump forward in a fixed arc), and you can jump on enemies' heads. That's all there is to your moveset. Your goal is just to reach the end of the level. If you ignore the collectibles and focus purely on beelining straight to the exit, then each level can be finished in mere minutes. If you do that with all the levels, then the game can be reasonably completed in less than 2 hours. The real longevity lies in trying to get all of the collectibles - which does extend the time by a couple of hours, but even then, the game is still on the shorter side. Very few enemies make an effort to attack you directly. Most of them are just obstacles that you are free to ignore, and a good chunk of them even respawn shortly after defeating them. There is no real story to speak of. Aliens (the titular Woolies) stole Bubsy's prize golden yarn, and he's on a journey to get it back. That's it. Bubsy himself, while voiced well, does get on your nerves rather quickly if you don't set his verbosity to low. He's tolerable otherwise. Difficulty-wise, there's not much challenge, since every level starts you off with 9 lives that you can easily increase. Sure, reaching 100% completion requires beating every level without dying, but on most levels, as long as you beeline to the exit, this is fairly easy to achieve. The biggest challenge here are the boss fights, since all it takes are two hits for your attempt to be null and void. I'm not sure what else to say. It functions as a game. You have stuff to collect, platforms to jump over, enemies to watch out for, and a few boss fights. None of it feels unique or imaginative, and the visuals, while functional, are so generic that they make the game feel almost like an asset flip. And yet, there's something in how the game plays and how basic it is that made me enjoy it regardless. If you're looking for a simple game to play for like 15 minutes in a break from something else, and you can get it at a heavy discount, then it's an okay option to pick. Then again, wouldn't you rather purchase something more memorable and unique than this?


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Posted on: October 15, 2025

StewKeyDew22

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Games: 16 Reviews: 1

Fun and simple

I do wish there weren't lives, I'm not incredible at games so I would've gone for everything if that was the case. The music was good and Bubsy was amusing. I wouldn't recommend buying it unless it's on sale.


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Posted on: April 25, 2018

rob.liefeld

Games: 1345 Reviews: 78

Still, probably the best Bubsy game :(

This is an overly simplistic, dumb, unoriginbal, very basic, way too short and mostly charmless game. And yet, it is at least functional. I don't know how many of you played the previous bubsy titles, but the last two ones were virtually unplayable (Bubsy for the jaguar, and especially Bubsy 3D). The first couple of Bubsy games for the 16 bit consoles were mediocre, low effort cashgrabs trying to ride current trends. This game really reminds me of them. Back then, it was the "animal mascot with MAJOR ATTITÜÜÜDE!!!" thing they tried to emulate, now it it's the " 'member this? 'member the ninetiiiieeees? (and eightiiiies?)" wave of nostalgia. Again, in typical Bubsy fashion, it comes waaay too late to the party and offers nothing new. There's nothing functionally wrong with this one, there's just absolutely no reason to play it, let alone cash out 25 dollars for it. Here are some platformers you can buy for about the same amount of money each, here on GOG: Ori and the Blind Forest, Shovel Knight, Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap, Cuphead, Hob, Aegis Defenders, Oddworld: New ’n’ Tasty, or even freakin' OWLBOY. Buy any one of thos insted, or if you'd be okay with an older game, then all the platformers here are cheaper than this and many of them are better than Bubsy.


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Posted on: December 27, 2018

Redbeard1084

Verified owner

Games: 978 Reviews: 64

BEST...BUBSY...EVER!

The good news: This is the best Bubsy game ever made. The bad news: It's a Bubsy game. These developers had 20 years to find what good could be mined from the Bubsy franchise, as well as iron out the bad. This is what we got. Despite being made on modern hardware this game manages to maintain everything we all hated about Bubsy in the 90's. Choppy resolution, way too swift movement, poor enemy placement, jerky controls. It's like they were trolling us all along. I bought this game as a joke to myself, and to see if the programmers had learned ANYTHING. Well I got a laugh making my friend suffer through...but the programmers have learned NOTHING!


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Posted on: September 28, 2018

Testekill

Games: 941 Reviews: 6

At least it's not Bubsy 3D

Bubsy is back at the request of nobody; developed by the same team as Gianna Sisters: Twisted Dreams, Bubsy is at least competent in that it runs fine and doesn't control too awfully. That's about all the positives you can give it though; the game is incredibly short, still far too expensive for what it is, incredibly easy and every level is pretty much the same. You get some new enemies and obstacles but there are no extra powers and each level is still just running from left to right across bog-standard platforms. The worst crime though is that it's as dull a game as you can get.


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