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Knee Deep

When a washed-up actor hangs himself on location, a spotlight is cast on the backwater Florida town of Cypress Knee. Your screen becomes a stage on which you investigate this mysterious death as three distinct…

73 6 July 2015

Knee Deep is an adventure developed by Prologue Games, released 6 July 2015 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux and Mac.

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What Knee Deep is

Knee Deep is an adventure game developed by Prologue Games and released in 2015. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

When a washed-up actor hangs himself on location, a spotlight is cast on the backwater Florida town of Cypress Knee. Your screen becomes a stage on which you investigate this mysterious death as three distinct characters.
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How it plays

It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 43 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Knee Deep holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 44% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 4 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for i3 or equivalent, 2 GB RAM and ATI or NVidia card w/512 MB RAM. At 2GB 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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What it launched against

Knee Deep launched on 6 July 2015, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham Knight, Rocket League, God of War III Remastered and Her Story. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham Knight, Rocket League, God of War III Remastered, Her Story.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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Quick answers

Knee Deep — frequently asked questions

When did Knee Deep come out?
Knee Deep was released on 6 July 2015 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Knee Deep?
At minimum, Knee Deep needs i3 or equivalent, 2 GB RAM, ATI or NVidia card w/512 MB RAM graphics, 2 GB available space of storage.
How many GB is Knee Deep?
The PC version needs about 2 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("2 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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