Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
England, 12th century: Philip the monk becomes Prior of the small abbey of Kingsbridge. At the same time, a boy called Jack is raised by his outlawed mother in the woods. His apprenticeship as a stonemason…
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth is an adventure developed by Daedalic Entertainment, released 15 August 2017 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS. It currently starts at $1.99 at GOG. The main story takes about 17 hrs to finish.
What Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth is
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth is an adventure game developed by Daedalic Entertainment and released in 2017. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Visionaire.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth is a 2017 point-and-click adventure episodic video game by Daedalic Entertainment. It is based on Welsh author Ken Follett's 1989 novel of the same name. Book 1 of the game was released on 16 August 2017, Book 2 on 13 December 2017, and Book 3 on 29 March 2018.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are drama and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 41 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 7 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 80, across 62 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 17 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $1.99, that works out to about $0.12 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.8 Ghz Dual Core CPU, 4 GB RAM and AMD Radeon HD 6670, GeForce GTX 200 series with at least 1GB. 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 13GB. 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, 90% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth launched on 15 August 2017, within three weeks of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy and Sonic Mania. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, Sonic Mania.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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