Curious Expedition
Curious Expedition is a roguelike expedition simulation set in the late 19th century. Together with famous personalities you will venture on unprecedented expeditions to regions never explored before for fame…
Curious Expedition is an adventure developed by Maschinen-Mensch, released 2 September 2016 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Linux. It currently starts at $1.49 at GOG.
What Curious Expedition is
Curious Expedition is an adventure game developed by Maschinen-Mensch and released in 2016. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Custom built engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Curious Expedition is a 2016 roguelike-adventure video game developed by Maschinen-Mensch for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. The player takes control of a party who attempts to navigate through several lost locations on Earth, each one created through procedural generation. Reviewers have praised the game as charming and challenging, but others have criticized it as repetitive. The game has a rating of 74 % on Metacritic based on 11 critic reviews. It was nominated for the German Computer Games Prize in 2015 as Best Youth Game.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy, historical and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player. There are 63 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Curious Expedition holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. 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 2 GHz, 1 GB RAM and 1280x720 minimum resolution, OpenGL 2.0 Support, recommended dedicated graphics card with 128 MB of RAM. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $1.49 at GOG, 90% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Curious Expedition launched on 2 September 2016, within three weeks of Persona 5, 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: Persona 5, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Curious Expedition yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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