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Deathtrap

Deathtrap is a Tower Defense game with strong action-RPG elements, a game of vicious tricks, killing machines, rotating blades and splattering blood. It shares the gothic fiction setting with NeocoreGames' The…

70 4 February 2015 ESRB M

Deathtrap is an adventure developed by NeocoreGames, released 4 February 2015 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Deathtrap is

Deathtrap is an adventure game developed by NeocoreGames and released in 2015. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Coretech 3. It carries an ESRB M age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Beyond the veil of this world, there is a chain of strongholds that were once built to keep the horrors of the void at bay. And now the monsters are returning from the depths to conquer and kill: only you can stop the monsters before they break through to the everyday world. Choose your hero and defend the silent forts: use, rebuild and improve those ancient traps and magical machines.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 47 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Deathtrap holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Dual Core CPU 2.0 GHz, 2 GB RAM and GeForce 8800, Radeon HD4000, Intel HD4000 (min. 512 MB VRAM). 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 20GB. 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

Deathtrap launched on 4 February 2015, within three weeks of Life Is Strange, Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition, Dying Light and Resident Evil HD Remaster. All of them reviewed better. 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: Life Is Strange, Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition, Dying Light, Resident Evil HD Remaster.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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Quick answers

Deathtrap — frequently asked questions

When did Deathtrap come out?
Deathtrap was released on 4 February 2015 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Deathtrap?
At minimum, Deathtrap needs Dual Core CPU 2.0 GHz, 2 GB RAM, GeForce 8800, Radeon HD4000, Intel HD4000 (min. 512 MB VRAM) graphics, 20 GB available space of storage.
How many GB is Deathtrap?
The PC version needs about 20 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("20 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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