Spirit of the North is an adventure developed by Infuse Studio, released 13 November 2019 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $2.55 at GameBillet. The main story takes about 7.4 hrs to finish.
What Spirit of the North is
Spirit of the North is an adventure game developed by Infuse Studio and released in 2019. It was published by Merge Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Spirit of the North is a wordless, atmospheric adventure that unfolds entirely without dialogue or spoken narrative. The player takes the role of an ordinary red fox making its way through a lonely and windswept wilderness. After collapsing from exhaustion, the fox is touched by something greater than itself and awakens imbued with the powers of a spirit. Guided by this newfound connection to the mystical, the fox sets out across the sweeping landscape, its journey told purely through the environment, its movement, and the haunting score that accompanies it. What follows is a quiet, contemplative trek meant to be experienced rather than explained, leaving its meaning open to the player as…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 24 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Spirit of the North holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 7.4 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $2.55, that works out to about $0.34 per hour of the main story, or $0.36 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-4460 or equivalent, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or equivalent. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 4GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $2.55 at GameBillet, 87% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Spirit of the North launched on 13 November 2019, within three weeks of Death Stranding, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, The Outer Worlds and Persona 5 Royal. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Death Stranding, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, The Outer Worlds, Persona 5 Royal.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Spirit of the North yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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