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Death's Gambit

Death's Gambit is a challenging Action-RPG where you explore an alien medieval planet filled with beasts, knights, and horrors. Climb big creatures that will test your resolve. Fight dangerous monsters that…

67 13 August 2018

Death's Gambit is an adventure developed by White Rabbit, released 13 August 2018 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Mac.

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What Death's Gambit is

Death's Gambit is an adventure game developed by White Rabbit and released in 2018. It was published by Adult Swim Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on GameMaker.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Death's Gambit is a side-scrolling action role-playing game developed by White Rabbit and published by Adult Swim Games. It was released for Windows and PlayStation 4 in August 2018. An expanded edition of the game titled Death’s Gambit: Afterlife released in September 2021 for Windows and Nintendo Switch, in November 2021 for PlayStation 4 and in May 2022 for Xbox One.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 43 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Death's Gambit holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 29% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 2 points below the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 2.93 GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+ 2.9GHz, 2 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT/ AMD Radeon HD 6450. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB. 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

Death's Gambit launched on 13 August 2018, within three weeks of Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition, Dead Cells, Divinity: Original Sin II - Definitive Edition and The Messenger. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition, Dead Cells, Divinity: Original Sin II - Definitive Edition, The Messenger.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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Characters

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Quick answers

Death's Gambit — frequently asked questions

When did Death's Gambit come out?
Death's Gambit was released on 13 August 2018 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Death's Gambit?
At minimum, Death's Gambit needs Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 2.93 GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+ 2.9GHz, 2 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT/ AMD Radeon HD 6450 graphics, 1 GB available space of storage.
How many GB is Death's Gambit?
The PC version needs about 1 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("1 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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