Below
Test your adventurer mettle against The Isle’s procedural subterranean labyrinths. Explore a large, interconnected underworld crawling with cunning wildlife, deadly traps and stalked by a shadowy presence…
Below is an adventure developed by Capybara Games, released 14 December 2018 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Below is
Below is an adventure game developed by Capybara Games and released in 2018. It was published by Microsoft Studios. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on PhyreEngine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Below is an atmospheric action-adventure roguelike that follows a lone, tiny warrior arriving by boat on the shores of a vast and remote island. Drawn by mystery, the traveler descends into the island's ever-deepening caverns, a labyrinth of shifting, randomly generated depths shrouded in darkness. Survival is a constant struggle against lethal traps, hostile creatures, hunger, and the cold, with only a glowing lantern to push back the shadows. Told almost entirely without words, the game is a quiet, foreboding journey ever downward into the secrets buried beneath the island.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, open world and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 10 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Below holds a critic score of 66 out of 100. That places it above 27% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 3 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel i3, 4 GB RAM and Nvidia 550 or higher. 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 5GB. 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
Below launched on 14 December 2018, within three weeks of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Gris, Dusk and Ashen. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Gris, Dusk, Ashen.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Below yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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