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DESOLATE is a first person horror survival experience. Form a research team with up to 4 players and explore an open world filled with mysteries and unsolved questions, or do it all on your own.
DESOLATE is a survival, open world and horror game
developed by Nearga
and published by HypeTrain Digital.
Released on January 17th 2019 is available only on Windows
in 9 languages: English, Russian, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Portuguese - Brazil.
It has received 7,881 reviews of which 5,258 were positive and 2,623 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.6 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 3.74€ on Steam with a 75% discount, but you can find it for 0.85€ on Gamivo.
The Steam community has classified DESOLATE into these genres:
System requirements
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Windows
- OS *: 64-Bit Windows 8/10
- Processor: Intel Core i5-2400 @ 3.1 GHz or AMD FX-6300 @ 3.5 GHz or equivalent
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 or analogue with 2GB VRAM
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 10 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX®-compatible
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Is Desolate the best game I've ever played? Naaahhh But is it the worst game I've ever played? Absolutely not! I really like the vibe, it's very..........desolate.... And I can also appreciate the vision, the effort and the ambition behind it. It kinda feels like what Atomic Heart should have been. Or, you know, if Desolate was polished like a triple A game, then it would have been what Atomic Heart should have been. You catch my drift? It does get very stale after a while, I got maybe around 5 hours in before it just didn't feel that fun anymore. But do I hate it? No...? I really like it actually, it's just a diamond in the rough, something that would've done a lot better had it been polished and balanced some more. And again, I LOVE the vision, the effort and the ambition. I think that's the best part about it. Is it worth the $15 asking? Maybe? No? I don't know? But is it worth the $3.74 on sale? Definitely! I do get all the negative reviews, I really do, but I can also see a lot of potential here, appreciate what they were going for and see huge potential for these developers in the future if they didn't just dine and dash this Desolate piece of a$$. So for $3.74, it gets a positive review from me, and I hope the developers don't take the mixed review score and heaps of negative reviews too personally, regroup and try for something even greater in the future!
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---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☑ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☑ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☑ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10
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Look, this is not a AAA game, but it's not a bad game either. If it looks interesting to you, give it a try. It's often on sale for under $4. I see it compared to Stalker or Metro -- it's not really either of those but does have some vibes from each. The food and hydration survival mechanic is easy, as there is plenty of food and drink. What really bugged me was the combat. Enemies are everywhere and I was so frustrated in the beginning because I was done with "sneaking" everywhere. Combat is mostly melee. Ammo is rare. Stealth is so slow................ and even then I was having too many fights. Healing is slow (on normal) and "meds" to heal with are not common. Dying.... running back to find your backpack (no marker).... over and over.... After 2.5 hours I almost uninstalled... But I wanted to explore and see the story. I restarted and set it to easy -- much better and still some challenge. If you just want to see what the game is about, go for easy mode. Otherwise a decent game.
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TL:DR Buy only if its under 5$ The Good: Atmosphere is amazing Music and voice acting of the protagonist and main quest are great Some main Quest moments are great. The Bad: Game legitimately feels unfinished and abandoned at times. NPCs look worse than oblivion NPCs. No fast travel means half your time will be running like an idiot from one quest to the next. This gets even worse when you have multiple side quests pulling you in different directions, There is a feeling that the Devs tried to combine too many genres in one game and did a poor job at that. You have atmosphere of Stalker, a Fallout map, survival mechanics of the Long Dark, forced unnecessary COOP meaning online features like items always reappearing in places you picked them up and Dark souls respawn at predetermined places, crappy melee centric combat of Dead Island (yes with its crappy melee weapon crafting) and a horrible half baked Gunplay that might as well not be in the game. I am leaving a positive rating only because the Devs clearly have the talent of making a good game if only they focus their abilities at once specific direction. My advice, dump every other game trope (suvival/coop/crafting/melee etc), focus on Gunplay and make a good Stalker/Fallout clone. You clearly have the talent to craft an awesome dark and spooky atmospheric FPS open world game.
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DESOLATE is a buggy, a mess of a game with many animation and visual glitches. It does however have solid enough mechanics. It has decent horror elements and sounds. Best part is the story, so if you like good story games with horror elements and can get past the glitches, give it a try.
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Frequently Asked Questions
DESOLATE is currently priced at 3.74€ on Steam.
DESOLATE is currently available at a 75% discount. You can purchase it for 3.74€ on Steam.
DESOLATE received 5,258 positive votes out of a total of 7,881 achieving a rating of 6.56.
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DESOLATE was developed by Nearga and published by HypeTrain Digital.
DESOLATE is playable and fully supported on Windows.
DESOLATE is not playable on MacOS.
DESOLATE is not playable on Linux.
DESOLATE offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
DESOLATE includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.
There is a DLC available for DESOLATE. Explore additional content available for DESOLATE on Steam.
DESOLATE does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
DESOLATE does not support Steam Remote Play.
DESOLATE is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for DESOLATE.
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Multiplayer
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Online players
10
Developer
Nearga
Publisher
HypeTrain Digital
Release
17 Jan 2019
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