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Alwa's Awakening

Use your magic staff and progress through a large interconnected world where you'll solve puzzles, fight enemies and defeat bosses in order to help free the land of Alwa. Explore and uncover the secrets by…

75 2 February 2017 from $0.99

Alwa's Awakening is an adventure developed by Elden Pixels, released 2 February 2017 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Entertainment System. It currently starts at $0.99 at Steam.

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What Alwa's Awakening is

Alwa's Awakening is an adventure game developed by Elden Pixels and released in 2017. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Entertainment System, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity 5.

The premise, in the publisher's words

An evil power plagues the people and it’s up to you to set them free. You must travel to the land of Alwa and help the people living there to awaken from their nightmare… You are Zoe, a normal everyday girl who just happens to like to play video games. One late night when she’s just enjoying her favourite game she suddenly finds herself dozing off and when she awakens she has been brought into the game and into the land of Alwa.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 15 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Alwa's Awakening holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 4 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 2.1 GHz Dual Core, 2 GB RAM and Intel HD Graphics. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

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What it costs, and where

The cheapest verified price right now is $0.99 at Steam, 90% below its usual price.

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What it launched against

Alwa's Awakening launched on 2 February 2017, within three weeks of NieR: Automata, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, For Honor and Nioh. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: NieR: Automata, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, For Honor, Nioh.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Alwa's Awakening yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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Official trailer

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Quick answers

Alwa's Awakening — frequently asked questions

When did Alwa's Awakening come out?
Alwa's Awakening was released on 2 February 2017 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Entertainment System, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
How much does Alwa's Awakening cost?
The cheapest current price for Alwa's Awakening is $0.99 at Steam, which is 90% off its usual price. Prices on this page are checked daily.
What are the minimum PC requirements for Alwa's Awakening?
At minimum, Alwa's Awakening needs 2.1 GHz Dual Core, 2 GB RAM, Intel HD Graphics graphics, 280 MB available space of storage.
How many GB is Alwa's Awakening?
The PC version needs about 0.3 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("280 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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