Farabel (2016) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Farabel

"Farabel is a turn-based strategy game where you start at the end of the story; but that’s not all. In Farabel, the whole gaming experience is turned upside-down. You start your adventure with a hero at…

67 14 October 2016

What Farabel is

Farabel is an adventure game developed by Frogames and released in 2016. It was published by Drageus Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

"Farabel is a turn-based strategy game where you start at the end of the story; but that’s not all. In Farabel, the whole gaming experience is turned upside-down. You start your adventure with a hero at maximum power. With each jump into the past, your character is left slightly weakened, as the game become more and more complex. Develop your cleverness, your strategic prowess, and your inventive capabilities in order to survive! To win at Farabel, being powerful means nothing. You have to be clever! And you have to get more and more clever as you go."

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Farabel 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 2016 averaged 68, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

Farabel launched on 14 October 2016, within three weeks of Battlefield 1, Titanfall 2, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition and Sid Meier’s Civilization VI. All of them reviewed better. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Battlefield 1, Titanfall 2, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition, Sid Meier’s Civilization VI.

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