Daymare: 1998 is an adventure developed by Invader Studios, released 17 September 2019 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 8 hrs to finish.
What Daymare: 1998 is
Daymare: 1998 is an adventure game developed by Invader Studios and released in 2019. It was published by Destructive Creations. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Daymare: 1998 is a third-person survival horror game that recreates the mood of iconic titles from the '90s, with a fresh storyline. An incident that turns a small town into a deadly zone, three characters to play with and little time to find the truth, before its mutated citizens abruptly end your mission.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 45 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Daymare: 1998 holds a critic score of 55 out of 100. That places it above 11% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 14 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 8 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel®Core i5-4460, 2.70GHz or AMD FX-6300 or better, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or AMD Radeon R7 260x with 2 GB Video RAM. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 23GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Daymare: 1998 launched on 17 September 2019, within three weeks of Control, Borderlands 3, GreedFall and The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019). All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Control, Borderlands 3, GreedFall, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019).
Official trailer
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