Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3
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Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 is an adventure developed by Zeboyd Games, released 29 June 2012 on Xbox 360, Android, iOS and Mac. It is free to play.
What Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 is
Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 is an adventure game developed by Zeboyd Games and released in 2012. It was published by Penny Arcade, Inc.. It is available on Xbox 360, Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB M age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The main game begins with Tycho receiving a phone call which is described as 10 minutes of silence, prompting Tycho and Gabe to go to the Arcadia boardwalk where they had previously defeated the mime god and members of his cult. Teaming up with Anne-Claire, they fight past the cultists, and eventually face off against a crabomancer, then, upon defeating it, recover pins which bestow classes on whomever wears one (similar to the job system in early Final Fantasy games). They return to their office, only to find that Dr. Blood has orchestrated the theft of the Necrowombicon. Anne-Claire returns home, Tycho and Gabe team up with Jim, a former colleague who lost his body in a work-related…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Penny Arcade series
Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 is the fifth of 7 entries we hold in the Penny Arcade series. It arrived 2 years after Poker Night at the Inventory. The next entry was Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 4 in 2013. Its critic score of 80 is 3 points below the series average of 83. The highest-rated entry is Poker Night at the Inventory at 96.
How it was received
Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.6Ghz, 1 GB RAM and DirectX 9.0c compatible. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 launched on 29 June 2012, within three weeks of Persona 4 Golden, Spec Ops: The Line, Spelunky and Pokémon Black Version 2. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Persona 4 Golden, Spec Ops: The Line, Spelunky, Pokémon Black Version 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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