Rise of Insanity is an adventure developed by Red Limb Studio, released 1 March 2018 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR and Xbox One.
What Rise of Insanity is
Rise of Insanity is an adventure game developed by Red Limb Studio and released in 2018. It was published by Pineapple Works. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR, Xbox One, Gear VR, Linux, Oculus Go, PC (Microsoft Windows) and SteamVR. It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Set in America in the 1970's, the story centers around Dr. Stephen Dowell, a renowned psychologist faced with a difficult patient who shows distinct yet contradictory symptoms of different mental disorders. The life of the doctor himself is also shrouded in mystery – you must step into his shoes to find out the truth. What terrible fate has befallen your wife and child? Is your new patient, on whom you are testing your experimental treatment methods, somewhat responsible for what happened? Who is to blame? Don’t lose your nerve and overcome your fear.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Rise of Insanity holds a critic score of 30 out of 100. That places it above 2% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 39 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Rise of Insanity launched on 1 March 2018, within three weeks of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Sea of Thieves, Into the Breach and Burnout Paradise Remastered. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Sea of Thieves, Into the Breach, Burnout Paradise Remastered.
Official trailer
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