Little Orpheus is an adventure developed by The Chinese Room, released 12 June 2020 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS.
What Little Orpheus is
Little Orpheus is an adventure game developed by The Chinese Room and released in 2020. It was published by Sumo Digital. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The year is 1962 and NASA are trying to put a man on the moon. In a remote corner of Siberia, a Soviet cosmonaut is heading in the other direction. Comrade Ivan Ivanovich is dropped into an extinct volcano in his exploration capsule, Little Orpheus, to explore the center of the earth. He promptly vanishes. Three years later he emerges claiming to have saved the world. He has also lost the atomic bomb powering the Little Orpheus. He is taken to a top secret bunker deep below the Ural mountains to be debriefed by the fearsome General Yurkovoi, a man so frightening even Stalin won’t buy him a drink. The General rolls up his sleeves, fixes Ivan with a steely glare and say “So... where have you…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, kids and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 26 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Little Orpheus holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 24% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 8 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for AMD FX 6300 X6 / Intel Core i5-3570K, 8 GB RAM and 2 GB VRAM, Radeon 7870 / GeForce GTX 660. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. 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 launched against
Little Orpheus launched on 12 June 2020, within three weeks of The Last of Us Part II, Fortnite, Valorant and Desperados III. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 7 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Last of Us Part II, Fortnite, Valorant, Desperados III.
Official trailer
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