Bedlam
Bedlam is a first-person shooter based on a novel of the same name by award winning British author Christopher Brookmyre. In Bedlam, players take on the role of Heather Quinn (aka Athena), a programmer at…
Bedlam is an adventure developed by RedBedlam, released 8 October 2014 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Bedlam is
Bedlam is an adventure game developed by RedBedlam and released in 2014. It was published by KISS ltd. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Bedlam is a first-person shooter based on a novel of the same name by award winning British author Christopher Brookmyre. In Bedlam, players take on the role of Heather Quinn (aka Athena), a programmer at medical scanning developer Neurosphere, who finds herself transported into the world of Starfire: a nineties FPS she remembers from her teen years. Searching for an explanation and a way home, she ventures beyond Starfire, to discover a vast realm of interconnected game worlds documenting the evolution of the FPS genre and of video games in general.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Bedlam holds a critic score of 52 out of 100. That places it above 10% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 17 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Bedlam launched on 8 October 2014, within three weeks of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition and Bayonetta 2. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition, Bayonetta 2.
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