The Basement Collection

August 31, 2012 Edmund McMillen Edmund McMillen
Platform Strategy Adventure Indie
PC Mac
About

The Basement Collection is a compilation of Edmund McMillen's Flash games. The games were remade with added features and music tracks.

The games in the collection include:
- Triachnid (2006), a physics spider simulation game
- Coil (2008), an experimental game
- Meat Boy (2008), a Super Meat Boy predecessor
- Aether (2008), a space adventure game
- Grey-Matter (2008), an anti-shooter game
- Spewer (2009), a liquid physics platform game
- Time Fcuk (2009), a dark puzzle game
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Release Date August 31, 2012
Developer Edmund McMillen
Publisher Edmund McMillen
Game Modes Single player
Perspective Side view
Themes Action, Fantasy, Comedy
The Basement Collection

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