Nefarious is an adventure developed by StarBlade, released 23 January 2017 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Linux.
What Nefarious is
Nefarious is an adventure game developed by StarBlade and released in 2017. It was published by Digerati Distribution. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity. It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Nefarious is a 2d-animated action platformer, where your objective on each stage is to kidnap a princess and then escape with them! Heroes will attempt to thwart you, and many things may not go quite as expected.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 44 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Nefarious holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 29% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 4 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8Ghz or equivalent, 2 GB RAM and DirectX 10 compatible video card. 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 2GB.
What it launched against
Nefarious launched on 23 January 2017, within three weeks of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, For Honor, Nioh and Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony. 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: Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, For Honor, Nioh, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony.
Official trailer
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