Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward
The second game in the Zero Escape series. Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward is a mystery/thriller visual novel. It is story focused with multiple endings that use player choices and puzzle rooms to progress…
Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward is an adventure developed by Chunsoft, released 16 February 2012 on Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One.
What Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward is
Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward is an adventure game developed by Chunsoft and released in 2012. It was published by Aksys Games. It is available on Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
"He awoke in an elevator. Across the room was a strange girl he’d never met before, even though she seemed to know him... “Sigma...” “How do you know my name?” he asked, but before she could answer a rabbit appeared. “This elevator is about to fall!” Sigma and the girl left the elevator only to find themselves in a massive room with seven other strangers...nine people in all. The strange rabbit told them that they would have to play the Ambidex Game-a game of betrayal. The penalty for losing was death. Could these nine strangers trust one another long enough to escape their prison alive?"
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are horror, mystery, science fiction and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Zero Escape series
Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward is the second of 4 entries we hold in the Zero Escape series. It arrived 2 years after Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors. The next entry was Kyokugen Dasshutsu Minigame: Renda Shibou Desu in 2012.
How it was received
Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 86% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 16 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 87, across 156 votes.
What it launched against
Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward launched on 16 February 2012, within three weeks of Mass Effect 3, Crusader Kings II, Mortal Kombat: Komplete Edition and The Darkness II. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Mass Effect 3, Crusader Kings II, Mortal Kombat: Komplete Edition, The Darkness II.
Cheats and codes
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