The Vale: Shadow of the Crown
A sightless warrior's world is that of intimate detail: an enemy's rasping breath, a foot shifting on swampy ground, the crack of steel on leather. The Vale is an audio-based action adventure game that sets…
The Vale: Shadow of the Crown is an adventure developed by Falling Squirrel, released 19 August 2021 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Vale: Shadow of the Crown is
The Vale: Shadow of the Crown is an adventure game developed by Falling Squirrel and released in 2021. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A sightless warrior's world is that of intimate detail: an enemy's rasping breath, a foot shifting on swampy ground, the crack of steel on leather. The Vale is an audio-based action adventure game that sets out to breathe new life into medieval combat.
How it plays
It is played from a auditory perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
The Vale: Shadow of the Crown launched on 19 August 2021, within three weeks of Psychonauts 2, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut, Twelve Minutes and Black Book. It arrived 8 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Psychonauts 2, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut, Twelve Minutes, Black Book.
Official trailer
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