Stay! Stay! Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Try and navigate your way through one of the world's most tightly controlled dictatorships, with two cute soldiers by your side. Avoid getting shot, executed, black-bagged, or tried for treason as you explore…

63 11 May 2017

Adventure Indie Role-playing (RPG) Visual Novel Comedy Erotic

Stay! Stay! Democratic People's Republic of Korea is an adventure developed by DEVGRU-P, released 11 May 2017 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Stay! Stay! Democratic People's Republic of Korea is

Stay! Stay! Democratic People's Republic of Korea is an adventure game developed by DEVGRU-P and released in 2017. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The year is 2016, America is back in Afghanistan, and you, soldier, are about to get a well deserved vacation. What better way to spend it than with some of your Korean Army pen-pals, Jeong and Eunji? "Pyongyang" is just a suburb of Seoul, right? Unfortunately not. Welcome to North Korea. Enjoy your stay. Try and navigate your way through one of the world's most tightly controlled dictatorships, with two cute soldiers by your side. Avoid getting shot, executed, black-bagged, or tried for treason as you explore Pyongyang's most famous tourist attractions.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are comedy and erotic. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Stay! Stay! Democratic People's Republic of Korea holds a critic score of 63 out of 100. That places it above 22% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 8 points below the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Pentium 4 1.7 GHz, 128 MB RAM and Intel Integrated Graphics Chipset. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. 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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What it launched against

Stay! Stay! Democratic People's Republic of Korea launched on 11 May 2017, within three weeks of Prey, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and What Remains of Edith Finch. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Prey, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, What Remains of Edith Finch.

Screenshots

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Quick answers

Stay! Stay! Democratic People's Republic of Korea — frequently asked questions

When did Stay! Stay! Democratic People's Republic of Korea come out?

Stay! Stay! Democratic People's Republic of Korea was released on 11 May 2017 for Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for Stay! Stay! Democratic People's Republic of Korea?

At minimum, Stay! Stay! Democratic People's Republic of Korea needs Pentium 4 1.7 GHz, 128 MB RAM, Intel Integrated Graphics Chipset graphics, 2 GB available space of storage.

How many GB is Stay! Stay! Democratic People's Republic of Korea?

The PC version needs about 2 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("2 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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