Crypt of the NecroDancer
Crypt of the NecroDancer is a hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Can you survive this deadly dungeon of dance, slay the NecroDancer, and recapture your still beating heart? Or will you be a slave to the rhythm…
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an adventure developed by Brace Yourself Games, released 23 April 2015 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One. It currently starts at $2.99 at GOG. The main story takes about 24.5 hrs to finish.
What Crypt of the NecroDancer is
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an adventure game developed by Brace Yourself Games and released in 2015. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on MonkeyX.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the main game, the player controls Cadence, the daughter of a famed treasure hunter who has gone missing. In searching for him, she falls into a crypt controlled by the NecroDancer, who steals Cadence's heart and forces her to challenge his minions to retrieve it. She is forced to fight through the crypt's dungeon with her actions tied to the beat of the music and her heart, so as to stay alive and defeat the NecroDancer. Near the heart of the crypt, Cadence finds one of the NecroDancer's minions named "Dead Ringer". She defeats him, revealing that it was her missing father and frees him from the NecroDancer's control, allowing him to help her defeat the NecroDancer. They take the…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 61 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Crypt of the NecroDancer holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 90% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 19 points above the year average. Players rate it 82, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 24.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 100 hrs, roughly 4.1 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $2.99, that works out to about $0.12 per hour of the main story, or $0.03 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2GHz, 1000 MB RAM and 512MB VRAM. 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 2GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $2.99 at GOG, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Crypt of the NecroDancer launched on 23 April 2015, within three weeks of Mortal Kombat X, Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin, Kerbal Space Program and Wolfenstein: The Old Blood. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Mortal Kombat X, Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin, Kerbal Space Program, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Crypt of the NecroDancer yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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