Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star
Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star is an action video game in the Fate/stay night series. The game is a single-player action game in which the player takes the role of a "master", who works together with spirits…
Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star is a fighting developed by Marvelous, released 10 November 2016 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Android.
What Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star is
Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star is a fighting game developed by Marvelous and released in 2016. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Android, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star is an action video game developed and published by Marvelous. It is the third installment in the Fate/Extra universe, following the earlier Fate/Extra CCC. It was first announced in March 2016 and released in Japan in November 2016 for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita consoles; its release in North America and Europe occurred in January 2017. Nintendo Switch and Microsoft Windows versions were released in July 2017 for all three regions.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 53 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Fate series
Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star is the 18th of 48 entries we hold in the Fate series. The next entry was Fate/Grand Order: Singularity VII - Babylonia in 2016. Its critic score of 69 is 5 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Fate/Samurai Remnant at 80.
How it was received
Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star holds a critic score of 69 out of 100. That places it above 41% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored about average for its year.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-3570, 4 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti. 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 5GB. 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
Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star launched on 10 November 2016, within three weeks of Dishonored 2, Battlefield 1, Final Fantasy XV and Titanfall 2. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Dishonored 2, Battlefield 1, Final Fantasy XV, Titanfall 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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