Blacksea Odyssey
Enter the Blacksea Odyssey, a violent top-down rogue-lite space shoot ‘em up RPG brimming with colossal creatures and runic technologies. Explore dangerous, interstellar spacescapes as you hunt enormous…
Blacksea Odyssey is an indie developed by Blacksea Odyssey, released 1 June 2016 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Linux.
What Blacksea Odyssey is
Blacksea Odyssey is an indie game developed by Blacksea Odyssey and released in 2016. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Once a decade, the greatest huntsmen in the universe gather to compete in a legendary tournament known as the Blacksea Odyssey. Steeped in blood, ancient treasures, and a madness that wills them to delve deeper into the black abyss, these huntsman compete for a chance to claim the ultimate glory of facing a creature of such insatiable ferocity and magnanimous size that its wingspan has been said to stretch across galaxies while it’s breath consumes black holes. A creature rumored to exist only in legend, the Titan of the Stars!
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 19 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Blacksea Odyssey holds a critic score of 79 out of 100. That places it above 62% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 11 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.0 GHz Dual Core Processor, 2 GB RAM and Shader Model 3 compliant graphics cards (GeForce GT 520/Radeon HD 3850 and above). At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Blacksea Odyssey launched on 1 June 2016, within three weeks of Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Overwatch, Doom and DOOM (2016). It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Overwatch, Doom, DOOM (2016).
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel. See all 2 videos →
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