We Are the Dwarves is an adventure developed by Whale Rock Games, released 25 February 2016 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux and Mac. The main story takes about 12 hrs to finish.
What We Are the Dwarves is
We Are the Dwarves is an adventure game developed by Whale Rock 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 E10+ age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Dwarves is just a race among others, being at the edge of extinction, because the Stars mystically go out. Forcer, Smashfist and Shadow are the only survivors of a drilling starship expedition, and their mission is to find a new Star for the dwarven folk. The accident brought them to the unknown part of the Stone Universe, pushing into dangerous circumstances, but that’s where the adventure begins! Dwarves are going to meet other small civilizations and ancient monsters from the deep layers of the Endless Stone. Some of them are dangerous enemies to each other and this plays to our dwarves hands.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 34 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
We Are the Dwarves 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 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 8 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 12 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD equivalent, 4 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or Radeon HD 5770 (512 MB VRAM). 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 10GB. 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
We Are the Dwarves launched on 25 February 2016, within three weeks of Tom Clancy's The Division, Stardew Valley, Firewatch and SuperHot. 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: Tom Clancy's The Division, Stardew Valley, Firewatch, SuperHot.
Official trailer
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