Killer Frequency
Killer Frequency is a first-person horror puzzle game set in 1987, that puts you in the role of a late-night radio talk show host in small town America whose callers are being stalked by a mysterious killer.
Killer Frequency is an adventure developed by Team17, released 1 June 2023 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. It currently starts at $4.28 at GameBillet. The main story takes about 6 hrs to finish.
What Killer Frequency is
Killer Frequency is an adventure game developed by Team17 and released in 2023. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Meta Quest 2 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The year is 1987, and as the clock strikes midnight in small-town Gallows Creek, USA, former big city radio DJ Forrest Nash is live on air in what will turn out to be the graveyard shift of a lifetime... In this horror comedy, you must solve puzzles to save callers from being hunted down by a mysterious killer. Where every call is life and death, can you save the inhabitants of Gallows Creek?
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 27 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Killer Frequency holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 6 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 6 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 12 hrs, roughly 2 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $4.28, that works out to about $0.71 per hour of the main story, or $0.36 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3-540 or AMD Phenom II X4 965, 4 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GT 730, 2 GB or AMD Radeon HD 6670, 1 GB. 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.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $4.28 at GameBillet, 83% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Killer Frequency launched on 1 June 2023, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Diablo IV, Final Fantasy XVI and System Shock. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Diablo IV, Final Fantasy XVI, System Shock.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Killer Frequency yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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