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Children of Zodiarcs

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79 18 July 2017

Children of Zodiarcs is an adventure developed by Cardboard Utopia, released 18 July 2017 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Mac.

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What Children of Zodiarcs is

Children of Zodiarcs is an adventure game developed by Cardboard Utopia and released in 2017. It was published by Plug In Digital. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

At the heart of an evil empire, a group of young outsiders rebel against the corrupt system that holds them down. Professional thieves on the trail of an ancient relic, the group infiltrates the glittering halls of a corrupt noble’s private chambers in pursuit of their target, narrowly escaping the wrath of the city guards at every turn. Desperate to find an escape, they seek refuge in the city’s seamy slums and brave the sunless pits of the underworld. Out to get them are heavily armed city guards, rival gangs and psychotic families of subterranean cannibals. Abandoned by the system and used by selfish criminals, these young companions will be forced to come to terms with their own…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 40 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Children of Zodiarcs holds a critic score of 79 out of 100. That places it above 62% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 8 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Pentium G4400 /AMD Phenom II X2-550, 2 GB RAM and NVIDIA GT 630 /AMD HD R7 250. 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 3GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Children of Zodiarcs launched on 18 July 2017, within three weeks of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and Diablo III: Eternal Collection. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Diablo III: Eternal Collection.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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Quick answers

Children of Zodiarcs — frequently asked questions

When did Children of Zodiarcs come out?
Children of Zodiarcs was released on 18 July 2017 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Children of Zodiarcs?
At minimum, Children of Zodiarcs needs Pentium G4400 /AMD Phenom II X2-550, 2 GB RAM, NVIDIA GT 630 /AMD HD R7 250 graphics, 3 GB available space of storage.
How many GB is Children of Zodiarcs?
The PC version needs about 3 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("3 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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