Buried Stars is an adventure developed by LINE Games Corporation, released 30 July 2020 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Buried Stars is
Buried Stars is an adventure game developed by LINE Games Corporation and released in 2020. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity. It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
"Nobody can wear two masks without revealing their true self." It was the finals of the fourth season of "Buried Stars" a survival audition competition featuring public contestants. The stage collapsed during the live broadcast, trapping the contestants and a number of the staff. With hours to go until the arrival of a rescue team, their sponsored smartwatches are the only way to know what's going on in the outside world. By connecting to SNS via their smartwatches, they can see thousands of comments of worry, support, criticism and mockery. The survivors on the inside and the communicators on the outside wait for rescue. Then an anonymous user on SNS forewarns of murder, saying that they…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are drama, mystery, survival and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Buried Stars holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Buried Stars launched on 30 July 2020, within three weeks of Ghost of Tsushima, Factorio, Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout and Risk of Rain 2. 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: Ghost of Tsushima, Factorio, Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, Risk of Rain 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Buried Stars yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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