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Betrayer

Betrayer is a first person action adventure game that takes you to the New World at the turn of the 17th century. The year is 1604. You sailed from England expecting to join a struggling colony on the coast of…

66 24 March 2014

Betrayer is an adventure developed by Blackpowder Games, released 24 March 2014 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Betrayer is

Betrayer is an adventure game developed by Blackpowder Games and released in 2014. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on WF Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Betrayer is a first person action adventure game that takes you to the New World at the turn of the 17th century. The year is 1604. You sailed from England expecting to join a struggling colony on the coast of Virginia. Instead, you find only ghosts and mysteries. What catastrophe blighted the land and drained it of color and life?
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 21 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Betrayer holds a critic score of 66 out of 100. That places it above 27% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 3 points below the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 3.0 GHz dual core or better, 3 GB RAM and Graphics: DirectX 9 compatible with 1GB video RAM or better (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460/AMD Radeon HD 6850). At 3GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 4GB. 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

Betrayer launched on 24 March 2014, within three weeks of South Park: The Stick of Truth, Dark Souls II, Hearthstone and Diablo III: Reaper of Souls. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: South Park: The Stick of Truth, Dark Souls II, Hearthstone, Diablo III: Reaper of Souls.

Official trailer

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Quick answers

Betrayer — frequently asked questions

When did Betrayer come out?
Betrayer was released on 24 March 2014 for PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Betrayer?
At minimum, Betrayer needs 3.0 GHz dual core or better, 3 GB RAM, Graphics: DirectX 9 compatible with 1GB video RAM or better (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460/AMD Radeon HD 6850) graphics, 4 GB available space of storage.
How many GB is Betrayer?
The PC version needs about 4 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("4 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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