NightCry (2016) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

NightCry

Welcomed aboard a luxurious cruise liner, you are spending your time enjoying this rare opportunity. But at the height of the evening, things are not as they appear as a murder brings it all to a grinding…

20 28 March 2016

What NightCry is

NightCry is an adventure game developed by Nude Maker and released in 2016. It was published by PLAYISM. It is available on PlayStation Vita and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Welcomed aboard a luxurious cruise liner, you are spending your time enjoying this rare opportunity. But at the height of the evening, things are not as they appear as a murder brings it all to a grinding halt. With no idea which direction to turn, blame is thrown around the ship in panic as the guests start to suspect one another. As night falls and a cry echoes out through the ship, the true nightmare begins. NightCry is a 3D point-and-click adventure game. Click to move your character and search the ship. Interact with objects by selecting them. Make sure you check it all carefully, for the clues you need may not be easy to find. But searching isn't all you will be doing. As you search…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are horror, stealth and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

NightCry holds a critic score of 20 out of 100. That places it above 1% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 48 points below the year average.

What it launched against

NightCry launched on 28 March 2016, within three weeks of Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Hitman and Ratchet & Clank. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Hitman, Ratchet & Clank.

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