Bad North

Bad North is an adventure game developed by Plausible Concept and released in 2018. It was published by Raw Fury. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, historical and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 11 achievements to unlock.

Bad North holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 29% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 2 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 71, across 81 votes.

The main story runs about 9 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 15 hrs, roughly 1.7 times the length of the critical path.

The minimum specification calls for AMD Athlon X4 5350, Intel Core i3-2100T or equivalent, 4 GB RAM and GeForce GTX 480M, Radeon HD 6790 or equivalent. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. 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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Bad North launched on 20 August 2018, within three weeks of Marvel's Spider-Man, Marvel's Spider-Man, Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition and Dead Cells. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Marvel's Spider-Man, Marvel's Spider-Man, Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition, Dead Cells.

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