Stranger of Sword City

Stranger of Sword City is a first person turn-based RPG dungeon crawler. The main character is Human but you get to change the appearance, gender, and class. You can create a team of up to 6 characters with…

75 5 June 2014

Adventure Role-playing (RPG) Fantasy

Stranger of Sword City is an adventure developed by Experience Inc., released 5 June 2014 on PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Stranger of Sword City is

Stranger of Sword City is an adventure game developed by Experience Inc. and released in 2014. It was published by 5pb.. It is available on PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

"A story of gods and humans, fate and will... The plane you were travelling on disappeared mysteriously. The plane was never found. There was no trace of survivors... You awake in a cold night, under a starry yet unfamiliar sky. It's Sword City, Escario, where shining butterflies soar... A land inhabited by strange creatures, fierce monsters, and mysterious labyrinths. You are a Chosen One... A Stranger of Sword City."

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 44 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Stranger of Sword City holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 6 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Pentium 4 2.40 GHz, 1 GB RAM and VRAM 256MB. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB. 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

Stranger of Sword City launched on 5 June 2014, within three weeks of Watch Dogs, Mario Kart 8, Wolfenstein: The New Order and Shovel Knight. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the Xbox One's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Watch Dogs, Mario Kart 8, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Shovel Knight.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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Screenshots

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Dlc

Stranger of Sword City Revisited

28 February 2017

Quick answers

Stranger of Sword City — frequently asked questions

When did Stranger of Sword City come out?

Stranger of Sword City was released on 5 June 2014 for PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for Stranger of Sword City?

At minimum, Stranger of Sword City needs Pentium 4 2.40 GHz, 1 GB RAM, VRAM 256MB graphics, 1 GB available space of storage.

How many GB is Stranger of Sword City?

The PC version needs about 1 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("1 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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