Araya (2016) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Araya

Araya is a first person horror game. Players will get a new thrilling experience inside a Thai hospital. The story will be told from the perspectives of 3 different characters. Players will explore different…

94 23 November 2016

What Araya is

Araya is an adventure game developed by MAD Virtual Reality Studio and released in 2016. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Araya is a first person horror game. Players will get a new thrilling experience inside a Thai hospital. The story will be told from the perspectives of 3 different characters. Players will explore different areas of the hospital in order to piece together the mysterious murder case of Araya.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 34 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Araya holds a critic score of 94 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 26 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 3.20 Dual Core Processor, 2 GB RAM and NVDIA Geforce GTX 560 1GB / Radeon R7 250X 1 GB. 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 8GB. 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

Araya launched on 23 November 2016, within three weeks of Dishonored 2, Final Fantasy XV, The Last Guardian and Watch Dogs 2. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: Dishonored 2, Final Fantasy XV, The Last Guardian, Watch Dogs 2.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Araya yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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Araya — frequently asked questions

When did Araya come out?

Araya was released on 23 November 2016 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for Araya?

At minimum, Araya needs 3.20 Dual Core Processor, 2 GB RAM, NVDIA Geforce GTX 560 1GB / Radeon R7 250X 1 GB graphics, 8 GB available space of storage.

How many GB is Araya?

The PC version needs about 8 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("8 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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