Boid (2016) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Boid

BOID is a Class-Based Multiplayer RTS about life and mutation. Become the dominant life form in this tactical RTS. Take full control over your units, and take over all bases on the map.

70 8 July 2016 Free to play

What Boid is

Boid is an indie game developed by Mokus and released in 2016. It was published by tinyBuild. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Microsoft XNA.

The premise, in the publisher's words

BOID is a Class-Based Multiplayer RTS about life and mutation. Become the dominant life form in this tactical RTS. Take full control over your units, and take over all bases on the map.

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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player. There are 24 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Boid holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 2 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 1Ghz and up, 1024 MB RAM and Works fine on integrated laptop graphics, but you NEED Direct X 10. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

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What it launched against

Boid launched on 8 July 2016, within three weeks of Inside, Starbound, VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action and Furi. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Inside, Starbound, VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action, Furi.

Boid — frequently asked questions

When did Boid come out?

Boid was released on 8 July 2016 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

Is Boid free?

Yes — Boid is free to play.

What are the minimum PC requirements for Boid?

At minimum, Boid needs 1Ghz and up, 1024 MB RAM, Works fine on integrated laptop graphics, but you NEED Direct X 10 graphics, 200 MB available space of storage.

How many GB is Boid?

The PC version needs about 0.2 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("200 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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