Dead Man's Diary is an adventure developed by TML-Studios, released 30 March 2022 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Dead Man's Diary is
Dead Man's Diary is an adventure game developed by TML-Studios and released in 2022. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
You're on your own in a world full of danger! You can drink only if you discover water, survive the night only if you have a safe place to sleep - eat only what you have found or hunted. Explore a destroyed world and experience a dark story. Dead Man's Diary is a unique blend of elements from several genres. The gameplay adopts typical survival game mechanics such as crafting items or exploring a hostile world along with the need to find places to sleep or food. And enriches it with a gripping story and realistic puzzles.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Dead Man's Diary holds a critic score of 35 out of 100. That places it above 3% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 39 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Dead Man's Diary launched on 30 March 2022, within three weeks of Tunic, Ghostwire: Tokyo, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga and Kirby and the Forgotten Land. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Tunic, Ghostwire: Tokyo, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, Kirby and the Forgotten Land.
Official trailer
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