Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
An open-world action role-playing game set in the high-fantasy land of Gransys. Players create a customizable protagonist and explore the world in real-time combat, choosing among vocations such as fighter…
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen is an adventure developed by Capcom, released 23 April 2013 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PlayStation 3. The main story takes about 45 hrs to finish.
What Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen is
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen is an adventure game developed by Capcom and released in 2013. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on MT Framework.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the land of Gransys, a dragon long said to herald the end of the world arrives and attacks the protagonist's coastal village. When the protagonist confronts the dragon, it takes their heart, yet they survive. This marks them as the Arisen, a figure destined to face the dragon and stop the coming catastrophe. Setting out across Gransys, the Arisen is joined by Pawns, human-like beings who exist to aid those who carry that fate, and follows the dragon's challenge while uncovering a deeper conspiracy surrounding it.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 59 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Dragon's Dogma series
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen is the second of 7 entries we hold in the Dragon's Dogma series. It arrived 11 months after Dragon's Dogma. The next entry was Dragon's Dogma Quest in 2013. Its critic score of 78 is 6 points below the series average of 84. The highest-rated entry is Dragon's Dogma II at 91.
How it was received
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 8 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 79, across 172 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 45 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 115 hrs, roughly 2.6 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5 660 CPU or equivalent, 4 GB RAM and Radeon HD 5870 or equivalent. 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 20GB. 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 launched against
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen launched on 23 April 2013, within three weeks of Metro: Last Light, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon and Age of Empires II HD. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Metro: Last Light, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, Age of Empires II HD.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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