Valiant Hearts: The Great War
Valiant Hearts: The Great War is the story of 4 crossed destinies and a broken love in a world torn apart. Dive into a 2D animated comic book adventure, mixing exploration, action and puzzles. In Valiant…
Valiant Hearts: The Great War is an adventure developed by Ubisoft Montpellier, released 24 June 2014 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PlayStation 3. The main story takes about 6 hrs to finish.
What Valiant Hearts: The Great War is
Valiant Hearts: The Great War is an adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montpellier and released in 2014. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Android, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on UbiArt Framework.
The premise, in the publisher's words
This is the story of crossed destinies and a broken love in a world torn apart. All of them will try to survive the horror of the trenches following their faithful canine companion. In Valiant Hearts: The Great War, the lives of all these characters are inextricably drawn together over the course of the game. Friendship, love, sacrifice, and tragedy befall each one as they help each other to retain their humanity against the horrors of war.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are educational, historical and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 20 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Valiant Hearts: The Great War holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 7 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 79, across 453 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 6 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 12.7 hrs, roughly 2.1 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Pentium IV 630 @ 3.0 GHz or AMD Athlon64 3000 + @ 1.8 GHz, 2 GB RAM and nVidia GeForce 8800 GT or AMD Radeon HD2900 XT (512MB VRAM). 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 2GB. 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
Valiant Hearts: The Great War launched on 24 June 2014, within three weeks of Shovel Knight, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, Divinity: Original Sin and Rise of Nations: Extended Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Shovel Knight, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, Divinity: Original Sin, Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Valiant Hearts: The Great War yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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