The Last of Us Part I
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The Last of Us Part I is an adventure developed by Naughty Dog, released 2 September 2022 on PlayStation 5 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Last of Us Part I is
The Last of Us Part I is an adventure game developed by Naughty Dog and released in 2022. It was published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 5 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Naughty Dog Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Twenty years after a mutated fungus started turning people all over the world into deadly zombies, humans become an endangered species. Joel, a Texan in his forties with the "emotional range of a teaspoon" (to quote Hermione from Harry Potter), finds himself responsible with the safety of a fourteen year old girl named Ellie whom he must smuggle to a militia group called the Fireflies. And as if the infected aren't enough of a hassle, they also have to deal with the authorities who wouldn't let them leave the quarantine zone, as well as other survivors capable of killing anyone who might have something useful in their backpacks.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, stealth and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 29 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the The Last of Us series
The Last of Us Part I is the 12th of 19 entries we hold in the The Last of Us series. It arrived 2 years after The Last of Us Part II: Grounded Update. The next entry was The Last of Us Part I: Firefly Edition in 2022. Its critic score of 77 is 12 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 Part I holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 56% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 3 points above the year average. Players rate it 85, 8 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for AMD Ryzen 5 1500X, Intel Core i7-4770K, 16 GB RAM and AMD Radeon RX 470 (4 GB), AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT (4 GB), NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (4 GB), NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (4 GB). A 16GB memory requirement is demanding — worth checking before you buy, because 8GB is still common in older and budget machines. It also needs around 100GB of free storage, which is a real consideration on a 512GB drive. 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 Last of Us Part I launched on 2 September 2022, within three weeks of Return to Monkey Island, Metal: Hellsinger, Immortality and Splatoon 3. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Return to Monkey Island, Metal: Hellsinger, Immortality, Splatoon 3.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Last of Us Part I yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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