The Last of Us
The Last of Us is a third-person action-adventure game featuring a mix of exploration, stealth and combat. Players face both infected creatures and hostile human enemies while progressing through varied…
The Last of Us is an adventure developed by Naughty Dog, released 14 June 2013 on PlayStation 3. The main story takes about 19.9 hrs to finish.
What The Last of Us is
The Last of Us is an adventure game developed by Naughty Dog and released in 2013. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3 only. It runs on Naughty Dog Engine. It carries an ESRB M age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Twenty years after the outbreak of a parasitic fungus which takes over the neural functions of humans, Joel, a Texan with a tragic familial past, finds himself responsible with smuggling a fourteen-year-old girl named Ellie to a militia group called the Fireflies, while avoiding strict and deadly authorities, infected fungal hosts and other violent survivors.
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.
Where it sits in the The Last of Us series
The Last of Us is the first of 19 entries we hold in the The Last of Us series. The next entry was The Last of Us: Survival Edition in 2013. Its critic score of 92 is 3 points above 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 holds a critic score of 92 out of 100. That places it above 97% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 22 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 92, across 3,622 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 19.9 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 41.1 hrs, roughly 2.1 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
The Last of Us launched on 14 June 2013, within three weeks of Trine 2: Complete Story, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy, Rogue Legacy and The Swapper. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: Trine 2: Complete Story, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy, Rogue Legacy, The Swapper.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Last of Us yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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