Sword Coast Legends (2015) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Sword Coast Legends

Set in the lush and vibrant world of the Forgotten Realms, Sword Coast Legends offers an all-new way to enjoy the time-tested magic of playing Dungeons & Dragons as a shared storytelling experience. With a…

63 20 October 2015 ESRB T

What Sword Coast Legends is

Sword Coast Legends is an adventure game developed by Digital Extremes and released in 2015. It was published by n-Space. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity. It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Set in the lush and vibrant world of the Forgotten Realms, Sword Coast Legends offers an all-new way to enjoy the time-tested magic of playing Dungeons & Dragons as a shared storytelling experience. With a deep narrative developed by a team of long-time industry veterans and a partnership with Wizards of the Coast, the single player campaign of Sword Coast Legends brings the world of Faerûn home like never before. Sword Coast Legends also brings the roleplaying dynamic between players and Dungeon Masters to life with DM Mode, a first-of-its-kind real-time experience in which Dungeon Masters guide players through unique customizable adventures. In DM Mode, the Dungeon Master engages players…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It supports multiplayer for up to 5 players online. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Dungeons & Dragons series

Sword Coast Legends is the 102nd of 140 entries we hold in the Dungeons & Dragons series. It arrived 6 months after Dungeons & Dragons Online: The Temple of Elemental Evil. The next entry was Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear in 2016. Its critic score of 63 is 10 points below the series average of 73. The highest-rated entry is Baldur's Gate III at 95.

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How it was received

Sword Coast Legends holds a critic score of 63 out of 100. That places it above 22% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 6 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Sword Coast Legends launched on 20 October 2015, within three weeks of Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone and Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition.

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