Orcs Must Die! is an indie developed by Robot Entertainment, released 5 October 2011 on Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 12.3 hrs to finish.
What Orcs Must Die! is
Orcs Must Die! is an indie game developed by Robot Entertainment and released in 2011. It was published by Microsoft Studios. It is available on Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Orcs Must Die! is an action-tower defense video game developed and published by Robot Entertainment and Mastertronic. It is a tower defense game that eschews the traditional top-down view of similar games, instead using a third-person action-oriented viewpoint. The game was released for Xbox Live Arcade and Windows PCs in October 2011.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 27 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Orcs Must Die! holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 5,101 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Players rate it 79, 7 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 12.3 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 29.7 hrs, roughly 2.4 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2GHz Dual Core, 2 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 or ATI Radeon x1950 or better with 256MB VRAM. 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 5GB.
What it launched against
Orcs Must Die! launched on 5 October 2011, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham City, Dark Souls, Shadow of the Colossus (2011) and Gears of War 3. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham City, Dark Souls, Shadow of the Colossus (2011), Gears of War 3.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Orcs Must Die! yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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