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Orcs Must Die! Unchained

Wisecracking multiplayer action that uniquely blends the strategic depth of a MOBA with intense third-person combat as you fight in a wild battle for fortress supremacy. Orcs Must Die! Unchained is a…

83 19 March 2017

Orcs Must Die! Unchained is an indie developed by Robot Entertainment, released 19 March 2017 on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Orcs Must Die! Unchained is

Orcs Must Die! Unchained is an indie game developed by Robot Entertainment and released in 2017. It is available on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.

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.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 132 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Orcs Must Die! Unchained holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 80% of the 5,101 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 12 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel Core2Duo 2.66GHz, 4 GB RAM and Intel HD Graphics 4000. 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 8GB.

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What it launched against

Orcs Must Die! Unchained launched on 19 March 2017, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, Mass Effect: Andromeda and Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. 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: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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Quick answers

Orcs Must Die! Unchained — frequently asked questions

When did Orcs Must Die! Unchained come out?
Orcs Must Die! Unchained was released on 19 March 2017 for PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Orcs Must Die! Unchained?
At minimum, Orcs Must Die! Unchained needs Intel Core2Duo 2.66GHz, 4 GB RAM, Intel HD Graphics 4000 graphics, 8 GB available space of storage.
How many GB is Orcs Must Die! Unchained?
The PC version needs about 8 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("8 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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