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Mike Dies

Mike Dies is a challenging fast-paced exploration-platformer with dynamic brutal fatalities and a massive non-linear environment. After flying his spaceship into an asteroid field, Mike finds himself fighting…

80 23 February 2018

Mike Dies is an adventure developed by Psydra Games LLC, released 23 February 2018 on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Mike Dies is

Mike Dies is an adventure game developed by Psydra Games LLC and released in 2018. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Mike Dies is a challenging fast-paced exploration-platformer with dynamic brutal fatalities and a massive non-linear environment. After flying his spaceship into an asteroid field, Mike finds himself fighting for survival against hostile aliens, a ruthless kingpin and his own personal demons.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Mike Dies holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for AMD Phenom II or equivalent and Tested with a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M - 2GB GDDR5 memory. Install size is roughly 2GB.

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What it launched against

Mike Dies launched on 23 February 2018, within three weeks of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Shadow of the Colossus, Shadow of the Colossus (2018) and Into the Breach. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 1 year into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Shadow of the Colossus, Shadow of the Colossus (2018), Into the Breach.

Official trailer

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Quick answers

Mike Dies — frequently asked questions

When did Mike Dies come out?
Mike Dies was released on 23 February 2018 for Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Mike Dies?
At minimum, Mike Dies needs AMD Phenom II or equivalent, Tested with a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M - 2GB GDDR5 memory graphics, 2 GB available space of storage.
How many GB is Mike Dies?
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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