Arcania: Gothic 4
Arcania is a Fantasy Action game set in a rich world where an entire kingdom’s future is at stake Build your strength and learn the skills needed to become a hero as you challenge a mighty king and uncover his…
Arcania: Gothic 4 is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Spellbound Entertainment, released 12 October 2010 on PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $4.17 at Gamesplanet.
What Arcania: Gothic 4 is
Arcania: Gothic 4 is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Spellbound Entertainment and released in 2010. It was published by CyberFront. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Vision.
The premise, in the publisher's words
War covers over the Southern Islands like a blood-drenched shroud and finally, War reaches the idyllic isle of Feshyr in the Southern Seas. The protagonist of Arcania: Gothic 4 returns from an adventure to find his home and village torched and looted. The aggressors’ ships - with an Eagle displayed on their billowing sails - escape over the horizon. Seeking revenge, the hero leaves the destroyed village behind and soon realizes that this cowardly attack did not just happen on a corrupt king's whim. An evil power lies waiting at the threshold of this world, and our hero will need to face this nameless evil. Yet the hero is not alone - his fate is linked to that of a beautiful, mysterious…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Arcania: Gothic 4 holds a critic score of 64 out of 100. That places it above 20% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 6 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 60, across 88 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo - 2.8 GHz / AMD Athlon II x2 - 2.8 GHz, 2 GB RAM and GeForce 8800 GTX, GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 9600. 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 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 costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $4.17 at Gamesplanet, 79% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Arcania: Gothic 4 launched on 12 October 2010, within three weeks of Fallout: New Vegas, Sid Meier's Civilization V, Super Meat Boy and Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Fallout: New Vegas, Sid Meier's Civilization V, Super Meat Boy, Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Arcania: Gothic 4 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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