Murdered: Soul Suspect
Murdered: Soul Suspect is a supernatural detective thriller which challenges players to solve possibly the hardest case of all… their own murder. Set in Salem Massachusetts, players have the freedom to explore…
Murdered: Soul Suspect is an adventure developed by Airtight Games, released 3 June 2014 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The main story takes about 7.5 hrs to finish.
What Murdered: Soul Suspect is
Murdered: Soul Suspect is an adventure game developed by Airtight Games and released in 2014. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Most people think that death is the end, but for Ronan O’Connor, a Salem police detective with a chequered past, it is just the beginning. When Ronan O’Connor, a detective with a chequered past, gets caught up in a violent burglary, his life is brought to an untimely end by a brutal and relentless killer. Shocked to find himself in the afterlife, his only escape from the limbo world of ‘Dusk’ is to uncover the truth behind his killer, track him down and bring him to justice using his detective instinct and new-found supernatural abilities.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, mystery and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 48 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Murdered: Soul Suspect holds a critic score of 61 out of 100. That places it above 20% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 8 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 63, across 305 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 7.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 14.4 hrs, roughly 1.9 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for High-Performance Dual Core CPU or Quad Core CPU, 2 GB RAM and AMD Radeon™ HD 3870 512MB RAM / Nvidia GeForce 8800GT. 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 12GB. 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
Murdered: Soul Suspect launched on 3 June 2014, within three weeks of Watch Dogs, Mario Kart 8, Wolfenstein: The New Order and Transistor. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Watch Dogs, Mario Kart 8, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Transistor.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Murdered: Soul Suspect yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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