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Rising Islands

Rising Islands is an adventure game where you'll have to combine fast-paced action with quick thinking. Jump, shift, grind, dash and wallrun through a fantastic world that is fraying at the edges. New…

47 2 August 2016

Rising Islands is an adventure developed by Lone Hero Studios, released 2 August 2016 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Rising Islands is

Rising Islands is an adventure game developed by Lone Hero Studios and released in 2016. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Rising Islands is an adventure game where you'll have to combine fast-paced action with quick thinking. Jump, shift, grind, dash and wallrun through a fantastic world that is fraying at the edges. New challenges await around every corner.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Rising Islands holds a critic score of 47 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 21 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Rising Islands launched on 2 August 2016, within three weeks of No Man's Sky, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Abzu and Overcooked!. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: No Man's Sky, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Abzu, Overcooked!.

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When did Rising Islands come out?
Rising Islands was released on 2 August 2016 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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