Forced Showdown (2016) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Forced Showdown

Deckbuilding empowers this challenging bullet hell adventure! Each character is a unique experience: Choose a deck of unlockable cards to boost you in new ways every battle - "My whirlwind shoots fireballs!?"…

68 29 March 2016

What Forced Showdown is

Forced Showdown is an indie game developed by BetaDwarf and released in 2016. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Deckbuilding empowers this challenging bullet hell adventure! Each character is a unique experience: Choose a deck of unlockable cards to boost you in new ways every battle - "My whirlwind shoots fireballs!?". Battle hordes of brutal foes to become a superstar in C-SAR’s ever-changing game show.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 81 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Forced Showdown holds a critic score of 68 out of 100. That places it above 29% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored about average for its year.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3, 2.4 Ghz or equivalent, 4 GB RAM and Nvidia Geforce GT 240 or equivalent, minimum 512 MB of VRAM. 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 6GB. 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

Forced Showdown launched on 29 March 2016, within three weeks of Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Hitman and Ratchet & Clank. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Hitman, Ratchet & Clank.

Forced Showdown — frequently asked questions

When did Forced Showdown come out?

Forced Showdown was released on 29 March 2016 for Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for Forced Showdown?

At minimum, Forced Showdown needs Intel Core i3, 2.4 Ghz or equivalent, 4 GB RAM, Nvidia Geforce GT 240 or equivalent, minimum 512 MB of VRAM graphics, 6 GB available space of storage.

How many GB is Forced Showdown?

The PC version needs about 6 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("6 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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