The Caligula Effect: Overdose (2018) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

The Caligula Effect: Overdose

Mobius. An idyllic world that exists for the sake of letting people forget about the pain and problems of reality. In this world created by a sentient vocaloid program, μ, reality and fantasy has become…

56 17 May 2018

What The Caligula Effect: Overdose is

The Caligula Effect: Overdose is an adventure game developed by FuRyu and released in 2018. It is available on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Caligula Effect: Overdose is an enhanced retelling of a role-playing game set inside a virtual reality world called Mobius. Created to shelter troubled people from the pain of their real lives, Mobius traps its inhabitants in an idyllic high school existence, where they are made to relive the same three years of adolescence over and over without end. The protagonist is one of the few to awaken to the truth: that this comforting paradise is an artificial prison overseen by a god-like vocal program known as Mu. Refusing to remain, they join forces with Aria, the former keeper of Mobius, to found the Go-Home Club, a band of students determined to break free of the simulation and return to…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

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

How it was received

The Caligula Effect: Overdose holds a critic score of 56 out of 100. That places it above 13% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 13 points below the year average.

What it launched against

The Caligula Effect: Overdose launched on 17 May 2018, within three weeks of Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered and Vampyr. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered, Vampyr.

Official trailer