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Corpse of Discovery

You wake up on a base in a new, unexplored planet. Your ship is torn to pieces and your gear is scattered. Why are you here? What was your mission? How will ever you get back home to your family? Corpse of…

60 25 August 2015

Corpse of Discovery is an adventure developed by Phosphor, released 25 August 2015 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Corpse of Discovery is

Corpse of Discovery is an adventure game developed by Phosphor and released in 2015. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

You wake up on a base in a new, unexplored planet. Your ship is torn to pieces and your gear is scattered. Why are you here? What was your mission? How will ever you get back home to your family? Corpse of Discovery is a thought-provoking first-person game of exploration and adventure located on a myriad of procedurally generated landscapes. As the astronaut searching for answers, you’ll explore unique planets and embark on missions throughout, each revealing a different understanding of what has happened and why you’re here. Corpse of Discovery touches on the universal themes of loss, quality of life, identity, sacrifice, and time, ultimately culminating in the question, “What sacrifices…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Corpse of Discovery holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 9 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Corpse of Discovery launched on 25 August 2015, within three weeks of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Undertale, Until Dawn and Mad Max. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Undertale, Until Dawn, Mad Max.

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When did Corpse of Discovery come out?
Corpse of Discovery was released on 25 August 2015 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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