Dyad (2012) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Dyad

Dyad is an arcadey tunnel racing puzzle game with a heavy emphasis on quick movement, reactive bright neon visuals, creating colorful music soundscapes, and sensory overload. Players are given the ability to…

88 12 January 2012

What Dyad is

Dyad is an arcade game developed by Right Square Bracket Left Square Bracket and released in 2012. It is available on PlayStation 3, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Dyad is a downloadable game for PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Windows, though OS X and Linux versions were planned for a later release. It was developed and published by Canadian studio Right Square Bracket Left Square Bracket.

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 27 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Dyad holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 93% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 18 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for i3 and 1 GB RAM. 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 1GB. 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

Dyad launched on 12 January 2012, within three weeks of Age of Empires III: Complete Collection, Resident Evil: Revelations, SoulCalibur V and Wipeout 2048. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: Age of Empires III: Complete Collection, Resident Evil: Revelations, SoulCalibur V, Wipeout 2048.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Dyad yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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Dyad — frequently asked questions

When did Dyad come out?

Dyad was released on 12 January 2012 for PlayStation 3, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for Dyad?

At minimum, Dyad needs i3, 1 GB RAM, 1337 MB HD space of storage.

How many GB is Dyad?

The PC version needs about 1.3 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("1337 MB HD space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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