Armikrog
Armikrog is a unique stop motion clay animated point and click adventure game from the creators of Earthworm Jim and the Neverhood. Follow the adventures of space explorer Tommynaut and his blind alien talking…
Armikrog is an adventure developed by Pencil Test Studios, released 30 September 2015 on PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox One and Linux. It currently starts at $1.99 at GOG. The main story takes about 4.7 hrs to finish.
What Armikrog is
Armikrog is an adventure game developed by Pencil Test Studios and released in 2015. It was published by Versus Evil. It is available on PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity. It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Armikrog is a claymation point-and-click adventure and a spiritual successor to The Neverhood. Players follow space explorer Tommynaut and his talking blind dog Beak-Beak, sent from their dying home planet on a desperate mission to find rare crystals that could save their people. When they crash-land on a strange alien world, the pair become trapped inside a mysterious fortress called Armikrog. Working together, Tommynaut and Beak-Beak use their unique abilities to solve puzzles and explore the fortress, gradually uncovering the secrets of who built it and what really happened within its walls.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy, kids and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Armikrog holds a critic score of 57 out of 100. That places it above 13% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 12 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 4.7 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $1.99, that works out to about $0.42 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2 GB RAM and Pentium 4 or equivalent. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $1.99 at GOG, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Armikrog launched on 30 September 2015, within three weeks of Undertale, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone and Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Game Series. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Undertale, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone, Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Game Series.
Official trailer
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