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

Bound

Bound is a 3D platformer designed for people with the desire to concentrate on the narrative side of games and experience a mature story. On the other side of the spectrum, Bound is also being prepared for…

72 16 August 2016

What Bound is

Bound is an adventure game developed by Plastic and released in 2016. It was published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR. It runs on Custom built engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game takes place inside the mind of a woman who is revisiting her childhood memories. In the game's world, the main character is a princess who is following the orders of her mother, the Queen, to vanquish a monster that is destroying the world. According to the game's creative director, "everything in the game is a big metaphor", and there are scenes in the game that show real life, and not the game's world.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, drama, fantasy and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Bound holds a critic score of 72 out of 100. That places it above 42% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 4 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 73, across 69 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 4 hrs.

What it launched against

Bound launched on 16 August 2016, within three weeks of No Man's Sky, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition. All of them reviewed better. 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: No Man's Sky, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer