Herald: An Interactive Period Drama - Book I & II

Herald: An Interactive Period Drama - Book I & II is an adventure game developed by Wispfire and released in 2017. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

Its themes are fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 27 achievements to unlock.

Herald: An Interactive Period Drama - Book I & II holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 9 points above the year average.

The minimum specification calls for Dual Core Processor @2,4 GHz, 2 GB RAM and Direct X 9 compliant video card with 1GB of VRAM / Intel Graphics HD 4600 (720p, Low Settings). At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB. 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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Herald: An Interactive Period Drama - Book I & II launched on 22 February 2017, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, NieR: Automata and Hollow Knight. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, NieR: Automata, Hollow Knight.