Sword of the Stars: The Pit

Sword of the Stars: The Pit is an indie game developed by Kerberos Productions and released in 2013. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Custom built engine. It carries an ESRB T age rating.

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, science fiction and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 187 achievements to unlock.

Sword of the Stars: The Pit holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 5,101 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year.

The minimum specification calls for Intel Pentium 1.6 GHz or equivalent, 2 GB RAM and 512 MB DX compatible card. At 2GB 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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Sword of the Stars: The Pit launched on 22 February 2013, within three weeks of Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm and Mass Effect 3: Citadel. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, Mass Effect 3: Citadel.

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