Arise: A Simple Story is an adventure developed by Piccolo Studio, released 3 December 2019 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $3.28 at GreenManGaming. The main story takes about 3 hrs to finish.
What Arise: A Simple Story is
Arise: A Simple Story is an adventure game developed by Piccolo Studio and released in 2019. It was published by Untold Tales. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Arise: A Simple Story is a puzzle-platform game developed by Piccolo Studio and published by Untold Tales and Techland. Players guide a recently deceased man through the afterlife as he relives memories of his life.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and drama. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 34 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Arise: A Simple Story holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 86% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 17 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 3 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $3.28, that works out to about $1.09 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3 4340 3.6 GHz or AMD equivalent, 6 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2 GB or AMD Radeon equivalent. An 6GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 6GB. 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 costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $3.28 at GreenManGaming, 84% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Arise: A Simple Story launched on 3 December 2019, within three weeks of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Pokémon Sword, Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition and Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Pokémon Sword, Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Arise: A Simple Story yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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