Curse of the Dead Gods
You seek untold riches, eternal life, divine powers - it leads to this accursed temple, a seemingly-infinite labyrinth of bottomless pits, deadly traps, and monsters. Your greed will lead you to death, but…
Curse of the Dead Gods is an adventure developed by Passtech Games, released 23 February 2021 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $3.99 at Humble Store. The main story takes about 38 hrs to finish.
What Curse of the Dead Gods is
Curse of the Dead Gods is an adventure game developed by Passtech Games and released in 2021. It was published by Focus Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Curse of the Dead Gods is a dark roguelike dungeon crawler that follows a lone explorer lured into a vast, cursed temple by the promise of untold riches, limitless power, and eternal life. Driven ever deeper by greed, the adventurer battles through procedurally generated halls filled with deadly traps, lurking enemies, and oppressive darkness. As they press on, malevolent curses take hold, twisting each run with new dangers and grim temptations that must be endured or overcome. Every descent is a fresh gamble against corruption, as the explorer risks everything chasing the temple's forbidden rewards.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 30 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Curse of the Dead Gods holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 10 points above the year average. Players rate it 77, 7 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 38 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 83 hrs, roughly 2.2 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $3.99, that works out to about $0.11 per hour of the main story, or $0.05 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3-2125 (3.3 GHz)/AMD FX-4100 (3.6 GHz), 4 GB RAM and 2 GB, GeForce GTX 660/Radeon R7 370. At 4GB 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. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $3.99 at Humble Store, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Curse of the Dead Gods launched on 23 February 2021, within three weeks of Little Nightmares II, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, Loop Hero and The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 8 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Little Nightmares II, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, Loop Hero, The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Curse of the Dead Gods yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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