Intake (2013) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Intake

Intake is the new retro-futuristic drugstep arcade shooter from Cipher Prime. In this polychromatic love child of Dr. Mario and Ikaruga, you battle a never-ending barrage of pills, pushing your skill and…

80 3 October 2013

What Intake is

Intake is an indie game developed by Cipher Prime Studios and released in 2013. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Intake is the new retro-futuristic drugstep arcade shooter from Cipher Prime. In this polychromatic love child of Dr. Mario and Ikaruga, you battle a never-ending barrage of pills, pushing your skill and reflexes to the limit to avoid a lethal dosage. Blast and combo your way through an epic cascade of audiovisual mayhem so intoxicating it comes with its own warning label.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 77 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Intake holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 65% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 2.2 GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM and Nvidia 8600M or better. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

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What it launched against

Intake launched on 3 October 2013, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto V, Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut, The Stanley Parable and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto V, Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut, The Stanley Parable, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD.

Cheats and codes

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Intake — frequently asked questions

When did Intake come out?

Intake was released on 3 October 2013 for Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for Intake?

At minimum, Intake needs 2.2 GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM, Nvidia 8600M or better graphics, 450 MB available space of storage.

How many GB is Intake?

The PC version needs about 0.4 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("450 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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