Beautiful Desolation
A post-apocalyptic adventure game set in a world you have never seen before. The Penrose appeared without warning. One day the sky was empty, and the next it was filled by an impossibly shaped monolith…
Beautiful Desolation is an adventure developed by THE BROTHERHOOD, released 26 February 2020 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Linux and Mac.
What Beautiful Desolation is
Beautiful Desolation is an adventure game developed by THE BROTHERHOOD and released in 2020. It was published by The Brotherhood Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Beautiful Desolation is a point-and-click adventure game by The Brotherhood. It uses an isometric perspective and is set in a post-apocalyptic version of South Africa. When alien technology teleports two brothers into the future, they must find a way back home.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 28 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Beautiful Desolation holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 3 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3 @ 2.50 GHz / AMD Phenom II X3, 4 GB RAM and DirectX 11 Compatible. 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 14GB. 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
Beautiful Desolation launched on 26 February 2020, within three weeks of Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Black Mesa, Dreams and Call of Duty: Warzone. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 7 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Black Mesa, Dreams, Call of Duty: Warzone.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Beautiful Desolation yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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