There Came an Echo

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68 24 February 2015 ESRB T

Indie Real Time Strategy (RTS) Strategy Science fiction

There Came an Echo is an indie developed by Iridium Studios, released 24 February 2015 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What There Came an Echo is

There Came an Echo is an indie game developed by Iridium Studios and released in 2015. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity. It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Corrin, an ordinary cryptographer, is thrown into a deadly game of secret agendas when a group of mercenaries tracks him down in Santa Monica, California. Guided by the mysterious Val (Ashly Burch), Corrin must escape from a foe with seemingly limitless resources and discover what secrets his own unbreakable algorithm, Radial Lock, is safeguarding...information that, if released, will rattle the very foundations of reality itself. Also starring Laura Bailey, Yuri Lowenthal, Cassandra Morris, Rachel Robinson, and Cindy Robinson.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 16 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

There Came an Echo holds a critic score of 68 out of 100. That places it above 29% of the 5,101 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 2 GHz Dual Core, 4 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT / ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT or greater. 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 8GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

There Came an Echo launched on 24 February 2015, within three weeks of Ori and the Blind Forest, Yakuza 0, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D and Cities: Skylines. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Ori and the Blind Forest, Yakuza 0, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D, Cities: Skylines.

Official trailer

Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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Quick answers

There Came an Echo — frequently asked questions

When did There Came an Echo come out?

There Came an Echo was released on 24 February 2015 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for There Came an Echo?

At minimum, There Came an Echo needs 2 GHz Dual Core, 4 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT / ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT or greater graphics, 8 GB available space of storage.

How many GB is There Came an Echo?

The PC version needs about 8 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("8 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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