The Last of Us: Left Behind is an adventure developed by Naughty Dog, released 14 February 2014 on PlayStation 3. The main story takes about 2.5 hrs to finish.
What The Last of Us: Left Behind is
The Last of Us: Left Behind is an adventure game developed by Naughty Dog and released in 2014. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3 only. It runs on Naughty Dog Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Set as a prequel to the main game, you take control of Ellie a few weeks before the events of the main story. One night while sleeping, Ellie is awoken and startled by her best friend Riley, a young girl who had left the boarding school a period of time ago after a confrontation with Ellie. To make up for leaving Ellie behind, Riley tells Ellie she has a surprise to show her and the two set off to sneak away from the school. As the two venture into a now abandoned Boston mall, events that will forever change everything for the both of them are set in motion.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, drama, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Last of Us series
The Last of Us: Left Behind is the fourth of 19 entries we hold in the The Last of Us series. It arrived 8 months after The Last of Us: Post-Pandemic Edition. The next entry was The Last of Us Remastered in 2014. Its critic score of 87 is 2 points below the series average of 89. The highest-rated entry is The Last of Us Remastered at 97.
How it was received
The Last of Us: Left Behind holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 86, across 344 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 2.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 3.3 hrs, roughly 1.3 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
The Last of Us: Left Behind launched on 14 February 2014, within three weeks of South Park: The Stick of Truth, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition and Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: South Park: The Stick of Truth, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Last of Us: Left Behind yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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