Kalimba

Kalimba is an indie game developed by Press Play and released in 2014. It was published by Microsoft Studios. It is available on Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 41 achievements to unlock.

Kalimba holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 17 points above the year average.

The minimum specification calls for 2 GHZ, dual core, 4 GB RAM and Intel HD5100 (Iris) / GeForce GT630 or better. 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 2GB. 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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Kalimba launched on 17 December 2014, within three weeks of The Talos Principle, Resident Evil, Elite: Dangerous and LISA. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It arrived 1 year into the Xbox One's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: The Talos Principle, Resident Evil, Elite: Dangerous, LISA.

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