Elegy for a Dead World
In Elegy, you'll travel to three worlds and write stories about their long-dead societies. You’ll lose yourself in settings inspired by the works of poets Keats, Byron, and Shelley, and use the game's system…
Elegy for a Dead World is an adventure developed by Dejobaan Games, LLC, released 3 November 2014 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Elegy for a Dead World is
Elegy for a Dead World is an adventure game developed by Dejobaan Games, LLC and released in 2014. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In Elegy, you'll travel to three worlds and write stories about their long-dead societies. You’ll lose yourself in settings inspired by the works of poets Keats, Byron, and Shelley, and use the game's system of writing prompts to help create your own masterpieces. Explore 27 different writing challenges, through which you create narratives about the worlds you visit, from multiple perspectives. In one challenge, you play an archaeologist, uncovering clues and writing about a city's final days; in another, you're a thief, composing a song about searching the wreckage for valuables; and in another, you're a bard penning a lament in rhyming couplets.
How it plays
Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 3 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Elegy for a Dead World holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Dual Core, 1 GB RAM and 3D card with 512MB. 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 2GB.
What it launched against
Elegy for a Dead World launched on 3 November 2014, within three weeks of Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.
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