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To Be or Not to Be

Guide Hamlet, Ophelia and Hamlet Sr. to hundreds of hilarious deaths in Ryan North's chooseable-path edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet!

80 4 February 2015 ESRB T

To Be or Not to Be is an adventure developed by Tin Man Games, released 4 February 2015 on Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS and Linux.

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What To Be or Not to Be is

To Be or Not to Be is an adventure game developed by Tin Man Games and released in 2015. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity. It carries an ESRB T age rating.

How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are comedy and educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 33 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

To Be or Not to Be holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 2 GHz dual core, 2 GB RAM and Hardware Accelerated Graphics with dedicated memory. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB. 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

To Be or Not to Be launched on 4 February 2015, within three weeks of Life Is Strange, Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition, Dying Light and Resident Evil HD Remaster. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Life Is Strange, Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition, Dying Light, Resident Evil HD Remaster.

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Quick answers

To Be or Not to Be — frequently asked questions

When did To Be or Not to Be come out?
To Be or Not to Be was released on 4 February 2015 for Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for To Be or Not to Be?
At minimum, To Be or Not to Be needs 2 GHz dual core, 2 GB RAM, Hardware Accelerated Graphics with dedicated memory graphics, 1 GB available space of storage.
How many GB is To Be or Not to Be?
The PC version needs about 1 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("1 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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