Beep (2011) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Beep

A lone spaceship has been gliding through the emptiness of interstellar space for a very long time. Within the ship, an automated factory prepares a fleet of robotic explorers... Take control of a precision…

68 6 May 2011 Free to play

What Beep is

Beep is an adventure game developed by Big Fat Alien and released in 2011. It is available on Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

A lone spaceship has been gliding through the emptiness of interstellar space for a very long time. Within the ship, an automated factory prepares a fleet of robotic explorers... Take control of a precision robotic vehicle. Explore a diverse system of planets and uncover their terrible fate. Beep is the ultimate marriage of platforming, shooting and physics-based gameplay.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Beep holds a critic score of 68 out of 100. That places it above 30% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored about average for its year.

How long it takes, and what that costs

A full completion run takes around 6 hrs.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 2.2Ghz Dual-Core, 2 GB of RAM and OpenGL 2.0 drivers on GeForce 8 series or Radeon HD series (or better). 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 1GB.

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What it launched against

Beep launched on 6 May 2011, within three weeks of Portal 2, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, L.A. Noire and Terraria. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Portal 2, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, L.A. Noire, Terraria.

Beep — frequently asked questions

When did Beep come out?

Beep was released on 6 May 2011 for Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).

Is Beep free?

Yes — Beep is free to play.

What are the minimum PC requirements for Beep?

At minimum, Beep needs 2.2Ghz Dual-Core, 2 GB of RAM, OpenGL 2.0 drivers on GeForce 8 series or Radeon HD series (or better) graphics, 512 MB of storage.

How many GB is Beep?

The PC version needs about 0.5 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("512 MB"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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