Guard Duty
Guard Duty is a comedy adventure about love, loss and the end of the world. Experience an unforgettable story spanning across two radically different time periods.
Guard Duty is an adventure developed by Sick Chicken Studios, released 2 May 2019 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One. It currently starts at $1.99 at GOG.
What Guard Duty is
Guard Duty is an adventure game developed by Sick Chicken Studios and released in 2019. It was published by Digital Tribe Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on AGS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Call of Duty is a 2003 first-person shooter game developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision. It is the first installment in the Call of Duty franchise, released on October 29, 2003, for Microsoft Windows. The game simulates infantry and combined arms warfare of World War II using a modified version of the id Tech 3 engine. Much of its theme and gameplay is similar to the Medal of Honor series; however, Call of Duty showcases multiple viewpoints staged in the American, British, and Soviet campaigns of World War II in Europe.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy, fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 20 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Half-Life series
Guard Duty is the 20th of 24 entries we hold in the Half-Life series. It arrived 12 years after Half-Life 2: Episode Two. The next entry was Black Mesa: Xen in 2019. Its critic score of 70 is 7 points below the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Half-Life: Alyx at 93.
How it was received
Guard Duty holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year.
How long it takes, and what that costs
A full completion run takes around 5 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Pentium or higher, 64 MB RAM and 320x240, 32-bit color, 700 Mhz. At 0GB 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. 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 costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $1.99 at GOG, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Guard Duty launched on 2 May 2019, within three weeks of Days Gone, A Plague Tale: Innocence, Anno 1800 and Katana Zero. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Days Gone, A Plague Tale: Innocence, Anno 1800, Katana Zero.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Guard Duty yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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