Wailing Heights
A coffin-rocking, body-hopping, musical adventure game, set in with a horrific hamlet of monsters, with a story by Kevin Beimers (Hector: Badge of Carnage) and glorious 2D artwork from a host of illustrious…
Wailing Heights is an adventure developed by Outsider Games, released 27 April 2016 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux and Mac.
What Wailing Heights is
Wailing Heights is an adventure game developed by Outsider Games and released in 2016. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity. It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A coffin-rocking, body-hopping, musical adventure game, set in with a horrific hamlet of monsters, with a story by Kevin Beimers (Hector: Badge of Carnage) and glorious 2D artwork from a host of illustrious comic book talent. Set in a peaceful, blood-curdling village blessed with gorgeous panoramic mountaintop views and the blissful stench of rotting corpses, Wailing Heights is home to the likes of vegan werewolves, hipster vampires, gossiping ghosts and all manner of well-adjusted supernatural taxpaying homeowners.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 12 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Wailing Heights holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 17 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Dual-Core 1.6 GHz, 4 GB RAM and Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT/AMD X1650 XT. 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.
What it launched against
Wailing Heights launched on 27 April 2016, within three weeks of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Doom, DOOM (2016) and Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Doom, DOOM (2016), Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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