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Sakura Gamer

The antisocial Nekohime is dragged into the world of video game development by her childhood best friend and her arch nemesis, Clover and Suki. Will she make a successful game… and maybe even fall in love?

90 5 October 2017

Sakura Gamer is an adventure developed by Winged Cloud, released 5 October 2017 on Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Sakura Gamer is

Sakura Gamer is an adventure game developed by Winged Cloud and released in 2017. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Ren'Py.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Sakura Wars, known in Japan as New Sakura Wars, is a cross-genre video game developed and published by Sega for the PlayStation 4. The sixth mainline entry and a soft reboot of the Sakura Wars series, the game was released in 2019 in Asia and 2020 worldwide. It is the first Sakura Wars game not to be developed by Red Entertainment. The gameplay combines overlapping action role-playing, dating sim and visual novel elements. The base campaign was later expanded with downloadable content (DLC), adding further gameplay options such as additional costumes.
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How it plays

It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 8 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Sakura Gamer holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 19 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 1.2 GHz Pentium 4, 1 GB RAM and 1280 x 720. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

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What it launched against

Sakura Gamer launched on 5 October 2017, within three weeks of Cuphead, Assassin's Creed Origins, South Park: The Fractured But Whole and Middle-earth: Shadow of War. It reviewed better than all of them. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Cuphead, Assassin's Creed Origins, South Park: The Fractured But Whole, Middle-earth: Shadow of War.

Cheats and codes

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Sakura Gamer — frequently asked questions

When did Sakura Gamer come out?
Sakura Gamer was released on 5 October 2017 for Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Sakura Gamer?
At minimum, Sakura Gamer needs 1.2 GHz Pentium 4, 1 GB RAM, 1280 x 720 graphics, 300 MB available space of storage.
How many GB is Sakura Gamer?
The PC version needs about 0.3 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("300 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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