That Dragon, Cancer
An immersive, narrative videogame that retells Joel Green's 4-year fight against cancer through about two hours of poetic, imaginative gameplay that explores themes of faith, hope and love.
That Dragon, Cancer is an adventure developed by Numinous Games, released 11 January 2016 on Ouya, Android, iOS and Linux. The main story takes about 1.9 hrs to finish.
What That Dragon, Cancer is
That Dragon, Cancer is an adventure game developed by Numinous Games and released in 2016. It is available on Ouya, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
That Dragon, Cancer is a 2016 Christian art video game created by Ryan and Amy Green, Josh Larson, and a small team under the name Numinous Games. The game is an autobiography based on the Greens' experience of raising their son Joel, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer at twelve months old. Though only given a short time to live, Joel survived for four more years before dying in March 2014.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
That Dragon, Cancer holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 10 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 1.9 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.80GHz dual core processor, 2 GB RAM and Video card with 512MB of VRAM. 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 5GB.
What it launched against
That Dragon, Cancer launched on 11 January 2016, within three weeks of The Witness, Yakuza Kiwami, Darkest Dungeon and Yakuza Kiwami. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Witness, Yakuza Kiwami, Darkest Dungeon, Yakuza Kiwami.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for That Dragon, Cancer yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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