Corpse Party: Book of Shadows

Corpse Party: Book of Shadows is an adventure game developed by 5pb. and released in 2011. It is available on PlayStation Portable, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 33 achievements to unlock.

Corpse Party: Book of Shadows is the sixth of 15 entries we hold in the Corpse Party series. The next entry was Corpse Party: The Anthology - Sachiko's Game of Love: Hysteric Birthday 2U in 2012. Its critic score of 78 is 8 points above the series average of 70. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.

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Corpse Party: Book of Shadows holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 10 points above the year average.

The minimum specification calls for 1.5 GHz, 512 MB RAM and 64 MB VRAM, 3D accelerator compatible w/ DirectX 9.0c. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 6GB.

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Corpse Party: Book of Shadows launched on 1 September 2011, within three weeks of Dark Souls, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Shadow of the Colossus (2011) and Gears of War 3. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Dark Souls, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Shadow of the Colossus (2011), Gears of War 3.

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