Live A Live (2022) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Live A Live

Previously unreleased outside of Japan, the RPG game Live a Live is releasing on the Nintendo Switch system in the HD-2D style! Seven different stories featuring different protagonists, time periods, and…

79 22 July 2022

What Live A Live is

Live A Live is an adventure game developed by Historia Inc and released in 2022. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Previously unreleased outside of Japan, the RPG game Live a Live is releasing on the Nintendo Switch system in the HD-2D style! Seven different stories featuring different protagonists, time periods, and gameplay styles await. In The Wild West, a wanderer with a bounty on his head fights for his life. In the Twilight of Edo Japan, a shinobi undertakes a secret mission. Experience these tales in any order you choose—the adventure is yours to control. What other stories will you uncover on the horizon...?

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy, historical and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Live A Live holds a critic score of 79 out of 100. That places it above 62% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 5 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Live A Live launched on 22 July 2022, within three weeks of Stray, Cult of the Lamb, As Dusk Falls and Xenoblade Chronicles 3. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Stray, Cult of the Lamb, As Dusk Falls, Xenoblade Chronicles 3.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer