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Devil Daggers

Inspired by 1990s FPS and arcade games, Devil Daggers is a fast-paced shooter that places you in an abyssal arena to face endless legions of demons. Armed with versatile magic daggers and a fluid movement…

78 18 February 2016

Devil Daggers is an indie developed by Sorath, released 18 February 2016 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Devil Daggers is

Devil Daggers is an indie game developed by Sorath and released in 2016. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Devil Daggers is a first-person shooter video game developed and published by indie development team Sorath. Players are tasked with surviving for as long as possible against swarms of demonic enemies on an arena shrouded in darkness. The player character can fire daggers from their fingers to eliminate foes and move about to avoid contact with them. The player dies upon touching an enemy, and as time passes, more threatening creatures begin to appear. Survival times are recorded on a global leaderboard where replays of playthroughs can be accessed and viewed. The deliberate use of unfiltered textures and effects like polygon jitter and texture warping make its visual style reminiscent of…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 1 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Devil Daggers holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 10 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 77, across 50 votes.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 2.0 GHz dual core or better, 1024 MB RAM and Dedicated GPU with OpenGL 3.3 support. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

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What it launched against

Devil Daggers launched on 18 February 2016, within three weeks of Tom Clancy's The Division, Stardew Valley, Firewatch and SuperHot. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Tom Clancy's The Division, Stardew Valley, Firewatch, SuperHot.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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Quick answers

Devil Daggers — frequently asked questions

When did Devil Daggers come out?
Devil Daggers was released on 18 February 2016 for Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Devil Daggers?
At minimum, Devil Daggers needs 2.0 GHz dual core or better, 1024 MB RAM, Dedicated GPU with OpenGL 3.3 support graphics, 500 MB available space of storage.
How many GB is Devil Daggers?
The PC version needs about 0.5 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("500 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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