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The Butterfly Sign

The Butterfly Sign is a detective story putting players into the role of the survivor of a disastrous incident. The protagonist takes an experimental drug which immerses him in the depths of his mind. In his…

53 13 December 2016

The Butterfly Sign is an adventure developed by Quantum Phoenix, released 13 December 2016 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What The Butterfly Sign is

The Butterfly Sign is an adventure game developed by Quantum Phoenix and released in 2016. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Butterfly Sign is a first person detective story putting players in shoes of the lone survivor and the only witness to a disastrous incident. The protagonist’s destiny depends on his memories. That is why he dares to take a desperate measure. He takes an experimental drug "Rammex" which immerses him in the depths of his mind and precisely restores all the events occurred to him. In his memories, the protagonist will discover the ones responsible for the disaster, collecting clues bit by bit…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

The Butterfly Sign holds a critic score of 53 out of 100. That places it above 10% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 15 points below the year average.

What it launched against

The Butterfly Sign launched on 13 December 2016, within three weeks of Final Fantasy XV, The Last Guardian, Darksiders Warmastered Edition and Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Final Fantasy XV, The Last Guardian, Darksiders Warmastered Edition, Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun.

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When did The Butterfly Sign come out?
The Butterfly Sign was released on 13 December 2016 for Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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