Tales of Kenzera: Zau is an adventure developed by Surgent Studios, released 23 April 2024 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Tales of Kenzera: Zau is
Tales of Kenzera: Zau is an adventure game developed by Surgent Studios and released in 2024. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Wield the dance of the shaman. Reclaim your father’s spirit. A grieving boy begins to read a Bantu tale written by his late father. Adventure into the beautiful and treacherous lands of Kenzera as Zau, a young shaman who bargains with the God of death to bring his Baba back from darkness. With your cosmic powers and untried courage, you advance into unknown mythological lands. Once bursting with life, Kenzera is now rife with lost ancestral spirits. As Zau advances toward his goal, 3 mighty beings lie in wait, fearsome in their strength yet somehow strangely familiar. Will you embrace the dance of the shaman?
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 19 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Tales of Kenzera: Zau holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2024 averaged 76, so it scored 2 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel i7 7700 / AMD Ryzen 2600, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB / AMD RX 580 8GB / Intel Arc A380. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 30GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Tales of Kenzera: Zau launched on 23 April 2024, within three weeks of Stellar Blade, Animal Well, Indika and V Rising. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Stellar Blade, Animal Well, Indika, V Rising.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Tales of Kenzera: Zau yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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