I Am Alive

I Am Alive casts the player as a lone survivor in a believable, dark and insecure post-apocalyptic world. One year after the Event, a worldwide cataclysmic event that wiped most of the human race, a man…

69 7 March 2012

Adventure Platform Action Fantasy Historical Horror

I Am Alive is an adventure developed by Darkworks, released 7 March 2012 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

Verified 29 Sep 2026 Sources: IGDB , Steam , Wikipedia

What I Am Alive is

I Am Alive is an adventure game developed by Darkworks and released in 2012. It was published by Atari. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.

The premise, in the publisher's words

One year after the Event, a worldwide cataclysmic event that wiped most of the human race, a man struggles for survival in a desolate city as he tries to reunite with his long lost wife and daughter.

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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

I Am Alive holds a critic score of 69 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year. Player ratings track closely with critics at 68, across 101 votes.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 3800+ / Intel® Pentium 4 630, 1024MB (Windows® XP), 2048MB (Windows® Vista or 7) of RAM and Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT / ATI Radeon HD 2600XT. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB.

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What it launched against

I Am Alive launched on 7 March 2012, within three weeks of Mass Effect 3, Journey, Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward and Kid Icarus: Uprising. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Mass Effect 3, Journey, Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward, Kid Icarus: Uprising.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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Characters

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Quick answers

I Am Alive — frequently asked questions

When did I Am Alive come out?

I Am Alive was released on 7 March 2012 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for I Am Alive?

At minimum, I Am Alive needs AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 3800+ / Intel® Pentium 4 630, 1024MB (Windows® XP), 2048MB (Windows® Vista or 7) of RAM, Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT / ATI Radeon HD 2600XT graphics, 2GB of storage.

How many GB is I Am Alive?

The PC version needs about 2 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("2GB"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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