Aporia: Beyond the Valley
Aporia: Beyond The Valley brings a unique approach to the art of storytelling, by not using text or dialogue. It offers new, interesting puzzle mechanics, and elaborate environmental storytelling within an…
Aporia: Beyond the Valley is an adventure developed by Investigate North, released 19 July 2017 on PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 6.1 hrs to finish.
What Aporia: Beyond the Valley is
Aporia: Beyond the Valley is an adventure game developed by Investigate North and released in 2017. It was published by Green Man Gaming Publishing. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on CryEngine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
"The mystical world of Ez’rat Qin - once a mighty civilisation, now a crumbled ruin. You awake after hundreds of years of sleep, in an abandoned land and no memory of your past. Immersed in this world of dark beauty, thrilling mystery and ancient puzzles, you embark on a quest to find out what happened in this world, and to discover who you are."
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 41 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Aporia: Beyond the Valley holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 56% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 6 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 6.1 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Dual Core 3Ghz Processor, 4 GB RAM and Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 or similar. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 20GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Aporia: Beyond the Valley launched on 19 July 2017, within three weeks of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Aporia: Beyond the Valley yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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