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Dragon Bros

Robots are everywhere, destroying the place you used to call home! The only cure for this terrible mess is to wipe out those cranky machines with bullets and big explosions! Play as a young dragon in this 2D…

77 16 September 2016

Dragon Bros is an indie developed by Space Lizard Studio, released 16 September 2016 on Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Dragon Bros is

Dragon Bros is an indie game developed by Space Lizard Studio and released in 2016. It is available on Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Robots are everywhere, destroying the place you used to call home! The only cure for this terrible mess is to wipe out those cranky machines with bullets and big explosions! Play as a young dragon in this 2D retro run & gun adventure in co-op or solo. Free your Dragon-mom from the evil Mechaliches!
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 11 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Dragon Bros holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 57% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 9 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Core 2 Duo 8335 or AMD Phenom 875, 4 GB RAM and AMD Radeon 7700 HD or Nvidia GTX 750 or GT 9800. At 4GB 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

Dragon Bros launched on 16 September 2016, within three weeks of Persona 5, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the Xbox One'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, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition.

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Dragon Bros — frequently asked questions

When did Dragon Bros come out?
Dragon Bros was released on 16 September 2016 for Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Dragon Bros?
At minimum, Dragon Bros needs Core 2 Duo 8335 or AMD Phenom 875, 4 GB RAM, AMD Radeon 7700 HD or Nvidia GTX 750 or GT 9800 graphics, 550 MB available space of storage.
How many GB is Dragon Bros?
The PC version needs about 0.5 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("550 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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