The Descendant is an adventure developed by Gaming Corps, released 24 March 2016 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 6 hrs to finish.
What The Descendant is
The Descendant is an adventure game developed by Gaming Corps and released in 2016. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
After climate change wrecked the planet, a man-made extinction event wiped humankind off the face of the Earth. Only a few thousand ‘descendants of humanity’ were hand-picked to survive the apocalypse, cryogenically suspended in underground bunkers known as Arks. Centuries passed. The world recovered from the nuclear holocaust, and all the Arks reopened, except one — Ark-01. Taking place across two timelines, in the past you'll play as Mia, a janitor tasked with keeping the precious descendants housed within Ark-01 alive while the facility continually fails around her, and in the present, you'll play as Donnie, one of the investigators trying to rescue any surviving descendants trapped…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 50 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Descendant holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 8 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 6 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel i3 2.0GHz or equivalent, 4 GB RAM and AMD or nVidia card with 1GB RAM. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 12GB. 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
The Descendant launched on 24 March 2016, within three weeks of Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Hitman and Ratchet & Clank. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Hitman, Ratchet & Clank.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Descendant yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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Screenshots
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Dlc
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