Pillars of Eternity

Pillars of Eternity is an adventure game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and released in 2015. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity. It carries an ESRB M age rating.

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 48 achievements to unlock.

Pillars of Eternity holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 12 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 81, across 329 votes.

The main story runs about 60.4 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 87 hrs, roughly 1.4 times the length of the critical path.

The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3-2100T @ 2.50 GHz / AMD Phenom II X3 B73, 4 GB RAM and ATI Radeon HD 4850 or NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT. 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 14GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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Pillars of Eternity launched on 26 March 2015, within three weeks of Bloodborne, Ori and the Blind Forest, Mortal Kombat X and Yakuza 0. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Bloodborne, Ori and the Blind Forest, Mortal Kombat X, Yakuza 0.

We have tested and published 5 cheat entries for Pillars of Eternity — 5 console commands. Each one lists the platform it applies to, the exact input, and whether it disables achievements.

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