Dreadhalls (2016) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Dreadhalls

Dreadhalls is a horror dungeon crawler for the Oculus Rift and Gear VR You will wake up in a scarcely lit dungeon. Find its exit, and avoid the creatures that dwell in it. Your only weapons will be stealth…

62 9 March 2016

What Dreadhalls is

Dreadhalls is an adventure game developed by White Door Games and released in 2016. It is available on Android, Meta Quest 2, Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, PC (Microsoft Windows) and SteamVR. It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Dreadhalls is a horror dungeon crawler for the Oculus Rift and Gear VR You will wake up in a scarcely lit dungeon. Find its exit, and avoid the creatures that dwell in it. Your only weapons will be stealth, your own courage, and a faint light that you’ll have to keep fed with oil, lest you want the darkness to engulf you. Dreadhalls is an intense and scary experience, not for the faint of heart. You have been warned!

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are horror, stealth and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Dreadhalls holds a critic score of 62 out of 100. That places it above 21% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 6 points below the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel i5-4590 / AMD FX 8350 (or equivalent), 4 GB RAM and Nvidia GTX 970 / AMD R9 290 (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 1GB.

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What it launched against

Dreadhalls launched on 9 March 2016, within three weeks of Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Stardew Valley and SuperHot. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Stardew Valley, SuperHot.

Official trailer

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Dreadhalls — frequently asked questions

When did Dreadhalls come out?

Dreadhalls was released on 9 March 2016 for Android, Meta Quest 2, Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, PC (Microsoft Windows) and SteamVR.

What are the minimum PC requirements for Dreadhalls?

At minimum, Dreadhalls needs Intel i5-4590 / AMD FX 8350 (or equivalent), 4 GB RAM, Nvidia GTX 970 / AMD R9 290 (or equivalent) graphics, 1024 MB available space of storage.

How many GB is Dreadhalls?

The PC version needs about 1 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("1024 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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