Herdling

Herdling is an adventure game developed by Okomotive and released in 2025. It was published by Panic. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 31 achievements to unlock.

Herdling holds a critic score of 92 out of 100. That places it above 97% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2025 averaged 78, so it scored 14 points above the year average.

The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-3470 or AMD Ryzen 3 1200, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750, 2GB or AMD Radeon HD 7850, 2GB or Intel Arc A310 LP, 4GB. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. 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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Herdling launched on 21 August 2025, within three weeks of Hollow Knight: Silksong, Mafia: The Old Country, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater and Hell is Us. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Hollow Knight: Silksong, Mafia: The Old Country, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, Hell is Us.

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