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Chambara

Chambara's core mechanic is disappearance - a unique marriage of visuals and design. Players hide in plain sight by camouflaging against like-colored areas to ambush each other in thrilling and stylish duels…

76 26 July 2016

Chambara is a fighting developed by team ok LLC, released 26 July 2016 on PlayStation 4, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Chambara is

Chambara is a fighting game developed by team ok LLC and released in 2016. It is available on PlayStation 4, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Chambara's core mechanic is disappearance - a unique marriage of visuals and design. Players hide in plain sight by camouflaging against like-colored areas to ambush each other in thrilling and stylish duels. In Chambara, you and your friends will experience the edge-of-your couch tension of stealth combat in a game that looks like no other.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and stealth.

How it was received

Chambara holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 63% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 8 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 1.8 GHz or faster, 3 GB RAM and Any from the last 4 years. 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 2GB. 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

Chambara launched on 26 July 2016, within three weeks of No Man's Sky, Abzu, Overcooked! and Starbound. 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: No Man's Sky, Abzu, Overcooked!, Starbound.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

Screenshots

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Quick answers

Chambara — frequently asked questions

When did Chambara come out?
Chambara was released on 26 July 2016 for PlayStation 4, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Chambara?
At minimum, Chambara needs 1.8 GHz or faster, 3 GB RAM, Any from the last 4 years graphics, 2 GB available space of storage.
How many GB is Chambara?
The PC version needs about 2 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("2 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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