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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 14.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on K4G.
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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This is a harsh and unforgiving survival game. Firstly, you start off with nothing but a long stick for a weapon. Secondly, when you die, your backpack drops on the ground right there where you died. You will respawn, often a couple hundred kilometers away, and have exactly 10 minutes to find your backpack again. It's marked on the map, which is very helpful, but the problem is that now you are unarmed. If you can get to your backpack in time, you get all of your stuff back. If you can't get to it in time, then you lose absolutely everything... weapons, food, medical supplies, crafting ingredients... EVERYTHING. That situation gets better once you can earn yourself a room at the Oasis Camp. Your room will have a storage chest where you can put all the stuff you don't need to carry on you at the moment. The Store Page contains the " horror " tag, but it's not really a horror game. It definitely has a spooky, post-apocalyptic vibe to it though. There is a nice day/night cycle, and various weather as you travel. You have to walk everywhere for a while. Eventually, you will find and learn how to fix these things called pneumolifts. Once working, the pneumolifts will allow you to teleport around the island. You are on Granichny Island, yet you never see any ocean. You are a " volunteer ", who has arrived to study the paranormal/supernatural events. A couple of years ago, something really bad happened out here, almost certainly some secret lab experiments gone wrong. The giant corporation responsible covered it up, but is now trying to either fix the situation or salvage what they can from it. There are many dangers on Granichny. You will run into several types of hostile mutated creatures, along with corporate security mercenaries who don't want you snooping around, violently insane homeless men, and raiders/bandits. Add into the mix some deadly weather events, elemental anomalies, starvation, dehydration, stress, injuries, and disease... and you have got it pretty rough. The currency on Granichny is scrap metal, so one of the first things you will want to learn is how to dismantle the items that you scavenge from every place you go. Many items respawn after a bit, as do the enemies. I've played for 27 hours so far, and have yet to meet any normal people outside of the Oasis Camp. Also, the game is open-world, so there are dozens of locations to explore. All the residents inside the camp are traders though, so you can buy and sell with them. Different traders often have different merchandise, but when it's the same merchandise they all seem to have the same prices, so you don't need to shop around for the best price. Crafting is a huge part of this game, too. You'll craft many things ( food recipes, new equipment, weapon upgrades, etc ). Multi-player does not work very well. When you create a multi-player world, the game tries to import into it your leveled-up character from your single player world. Trying to switch between characters can also cause you to lose both your inventory and your active quests. Also, if you do want to try multi-player, you will need a friend to play with, as there isn't really any multi-player community anymore. There is plenty of content in this game, but you can only carry sixty kilograms max weight in your backpack ( and that is when you are healthy ), so it does get a little tedious running back to camp all the time to empty it. The graphics are pretty decent, and the immersiveness is good. Many people have reported bugs and glitches in the game. So far ( 27 hours ), I have not experienced any myself.
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I enjoyed this game, especially the coop aspect to it. Quite a fun open world survival horror game.
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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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DESOLATE is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.
DESOLATE is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 14.99€ 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.
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Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
4
Developer
Nearga
Publisher
HypeTrain Digital
Release
17 Jan 2019
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