BioShock Infinite

BioShock Infinite is an adventure game developed by Irrational Games and released in 2013. It was published by 2K Games. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, drama, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 80 achievements to unlock.

BioShock Infinite is the 12th of 23 entries we hold in the Bioshock series. The next entry was BioShock Infinite: Ultimate Songbird Edition in 2013. Its critic score of 93 is 10 points above the series average of 83. The highest-rated entry is BioShock at 93.

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BioShock Infinite holds a critic score of 93 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 23 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 89, across 2,709 votes.

The main story runs about 17.1 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 28.6 hrs, roughly 1.7 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $6.44, that works out to about $0.38 per hour of the main story, or $0.23 per hour if you finish everything.

The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 DUO 2.4 GHz / AMD Athlon X2 2.7 GHz, 2GB of RAM and DirectX10 Compatible ATI Radeon HD 3870 / NVIDIA 8800 GT / Intel HD 3000 Integrated Graphics. 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 20GB. 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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The cheapest verified price right now is $6.44 at Fanatical, 79% below its usual price. Storefront pricing varies enormously by country: Indonesia is the cheapest region we track at Rp 49,999 (about $2.79), while Germany pays €7.49 — 3 times more. In Pakistan it is priced at Rs 6 on Steam, which is about $5.74.

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BioShock Infinite launched on 25 March 2013, within three weeks of Tomb Raider, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, Age of Empires II HD and BattleBlock Theater. It reviewed better than all of them. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Tomb Raider, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, Age of Empires II HD, BattleBlock Theater.

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