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In THE DESCENDANT, the end of the world is only the start. With what remains of humanity protected in underground Ark facilities, your mission is to keep survivors alive, while discovering a far greater conspiracy buried within Ark-01.
The Descendant is a adventure, point & click and casual game
developed by Gaming Corps AB
and published by Microïds Indie and Microids.
Released on March 24th 2016 is available on Windows and MacOS
in 5 languages: English, French, Italian, German and Spanish - Spain.
It has received 7,123 reviews of which 6,312 were positive and 811 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.
The Steam community has classified The Descendant into these genres:
System requirements
These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.
Windows
- OS *: Windows Vista+
- Processor: Intel i3 2.0GHz or equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD or nVidia card with 1GB RAM
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 12 GB available space
MacOS
- OS: OS X 10.10
- Processor: Intel i5 - 2,7 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel Iris Pro 6100 or higher
- Storage: 12 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Mid-2012 and newer with at least above hardware
User reviews & Ratings
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This game is slow and simple but a nice post apocalyptic mystery story.
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Please note, that i'll write the review for the whole game (including "The Descendant: Rest of Season") here. Though this package itself only contains a demo/trial-version (Episode 1). I sometimes check out Indie-games, since there can be real nice ones along. Glad, to tell you, that this is one of these times. If you install the game, start it and can't access anything, don't just rant about and uninstall it, like many others in the reviews. Try to either unplug any kind of gamecontroller, or just activate the Steam-Input for the game manually. Last thing worked for me, after i've read along the discussions, that removing gamecontrollers worked for others. The game: This game has Steam-achievements, which are - except for 4 of them - pretty easy to be done for an average person - though some require replaying chapters from certain episodes, especially if you failed at first attempt. It is preferrably played with a controller, since it contains some quicktime-events and the mouse-controls remind of good old 2D-Adventure-games, but unfortunately don't come in that handy on this 3D-Adventure-game. Once you played the game through, you just can copy the finished game to slot 2 or 3, and select 1 of these, replay the chapter of choice (e.g. to unlock missing achievements or see alternate endings) and either can delete it afterwards or just copy slot 1 again until you're done with the game. A very user-friendly way of handling savegames and making it possible, to test different approaches. There barely are any bugs afaik. I encountered 2 visual (beginning and end) and 1 functional bug (when shuffling cryopods) - only and really only - in Episode 5, else everything worked out smoothly. The story: The world has fallen by multiple missilie-encounters, only few "Chosen ones" remained and survived within Shelters - no, this is not Fallout. You start as Donald/"Donnie" - a former ARK-janitor - who's along a (former) politician on the quest, to open and recover ARK-01, which - for unknown reasons - hasn't opened yet. On your way in, you'll switch and also play Mia (one of the actual ARK's janitors), which - in a time-swapped version of the game - will pave the way for Donnie...the more or less. Decisions and efficiency matter a lot in this game, referring to progress and outcome. So be wise... PRO: - low hardware-requirements; - nice visuals (kind of "Borderlands"-rendering for the outlinea, suitable like on "The Wolf Among Us"); - works fine with Playstation-controller (gamepad increases playability, mouse and keyboard feel a bit odd sometimes); CONTRA: - can't skip everything at any step, even if you reloaded or replay a chapter; - have to "play by the book", in order, to unlock accessibilities of items/interactions (e.g. check sth., to figure out, you need sth., which becomes accessable after that and not before already); - for some reason, the game seems to be used by bots (for trading Steam-cards) and scammers (referring to other reviews and mentionings among Steam's "discussions") but if you just install it, play it offline and go online to sync-savegames, you should be safe and sound - just in case, you're afraid of anything; So yeah, the game is nice. To convince yourself, you may install the free Episode 1 and if you like it, you can purchase the "The Descendant: Rest of Season"-DLC, and if you don't, just uninstall it - no offense, no harm taken. Even though the playtime is pretty low, referring to the quality and the storyline, the price seems to be ok, so probably you can't go wrong, buying it on a discount or in a bundle. Sad, that not more developers, offer such reasonable approaches, but beneficial to this one. P.S.: You can manually save your savegame, which commonly is located in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\The Descendant\My Games" contained by the folder "The Descendant" by simply copying it to another folder or drive. About the bug at the puzzle in Episode 5... [Spoiler] To avoid the cryopod-bug, just solve the puzzle from the upper tier level. When i tried to shuffle the pod into the slot from the same/lower tier level, the free slot and a cryopod collided or the game just got stuck and enforced me to reload. When having the free slot on a higher tier and descending it in exchange for a cryopod (any of them, so it's a general issue of the puzzle), it worked. So did it vice versa, when you want the free slot on the higher level as well. It is more annoying, since you have to go to the upper tier level, place everything as needed, go to the lower one, do so as well, go to the upper one and start the transfer...but at least, it won't break the game and you won't have to reload and retry it from the beginning. [/Spoiler]
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I played the 1st episode and saw it potential. I do not regret buying and playing the entire season. It was a great experience with all the timeframes you can play and the characters are well written. I liked the way you can move around and interact. It's a bit linear, but as someone who likes the Fallout main background, this was cool!
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A truly hidden gem for me. Once I started playing, I couldn't stop until the end credits. Highly recommended to all of the narrative heavy adventures Telltale style games fans.
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To be honest, i am kinda of impressed with this game. The history that this game is based on is simply amazing. I was just anxious to get to the next episode every time. The graphics are cartoon type and the history deppends on the choices you make. Every choice you make will have consequences on how the game progresses and what will be the end of the game. I highly recommend this game, buy the other episodes, it is worth it!
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Frequently Asked Questions
The Descendant is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.
The Descendant is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 14.99€ on Steam.
The Descendant received 6,312 positive votes out of a total of 7,123 achieving a rating of 8.59.
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The Descendant was developed by Gaming Corps AB and published by Microïds Indie and Microids.
The Descendant is playable and fully supported on Windows.
The Descendant is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
The Descendant is not playable on Linux.
The Descendant is a single-player game.
The Descendant does not currently offer any DLC.
The Descendant does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
The Descendant does not support Steam Remote Play.
The Descendant 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 The Descendant.
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Online players
13
Developer
Gaming Corps AB
Publisher
Microïds Indie,
Microids
Release
24 Mar 2016
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