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Morbid: The Seven Acolytes

Morbid: The Seven Acolytes is a Horrorpunk Action RPG filled with Lovecraftian horrors and Cronenbergian gore, making it the most gruesome take on the isometric Souls-like genre yet!

66 3 December 2020 ESRB M

Morbid: The Seven Acolytes is an adventure developed by Still Running, released 3 December 2020 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Morbid: The Seven Acolytes is

Morbid: The Seven Acolytes is an adventure game developed by Still Running and released in 2020. It was published by Merge Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on GameMaker. It carries an ESRB M age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

You are the last surviving Striver of Dibrom. Your duty, for which you have trained your whole life for, is to defeat the Seven Acolytes, accursed and powerful beings, possessed by malevolent deities called Gahars.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Morbid: The Seven Acolytes holds a critic score of 66 out of 100. That places it above 27% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 7 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Morbid: The Seven Acolytes launched on 3 December 2020, within three weeks of Cyberpunk 2077, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Astro's Playroom. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 7 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Cyberpunk 2077, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Astro's Playroom.

Official trailer

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When did Morbid: The Seven Acolytes come out?
Morbid: The Seven Acolytes was released on 3 December 2020 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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