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Emily Wants to Play

Emily Wants to Play is a unique horror game released on December 10th, 2015. Emily Wants to Play is a game based around you, a pizza delivery boy, making your way through an abandoned house, trying to survive…

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Emily Wants to Play is an adventure developed by Shawn Hitchcock, released 10 December 2015 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android and iOS.

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What Emily Wants to Play is

Emily Wants to Play is an adventure game developed by Shawn Hitchcock and released in 2015. It was published by Nippon Ichi Software. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

It’s 11pm, and you are at the last house on your route. The lights are on, and the front door is opened. But, the windows are all boarded up and the grass is overgrown. It seems like a strange place to deliver a pizza, but at least, it looks like someone is home. You run to the front door since it’s storming pretty bad. “Hello!? Your pizza's here!" You announce. No one answers. There's an eerie silence. You are getting soaked from the rain, so you hesitantly step inside the door and look around. The front door suddenly closes behind you. You just wanted to finish this last delivery and head home for the night. Now you must figure out how to get out of this stupid creepy house. Freely roam…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 11 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Emily Wants to Play holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 12 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel i5 or AMD equivalent (AMD FX 8500+ Series), 4 GB RAM and 1GB Video RAM - will work with less, but wouldn't look too good.. 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. 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

Emily Wants to Play launched on 10 December 2015, within three weeks of Just Cause 3, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, Rainbow Six Siege and Bloodborne: The Old Hunters. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. 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: Just Cause 3, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, Rainbow Six Siege, Bloodborne: The Old Hunters.

Cheats and codes

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

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Official trailer

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Quick answers

Emily Wants to Play — frequently asked questions

When did Emily Wants to Play come out?
Emily Wants to Play was released on 10 December 2015 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Emily Wants to Play?
At minimum, Emily Wants to Play needs Intel i5 or AMD equivalent (AMD FX 8500+ Series), 4 GB RAM, 1GB Video RAM - will work with less, but wouldn't look too good. graphics, 1 GB available space of storage.
How many GB is Emily Wants to Play?
The PC version needs about 1 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("1 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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