Nine Parchments
Nine Parchments is a co-operative blast'em up game of magic mayhem from Frozenbyte! Runaway apprentice wizards seize the opportunity to complete their spellbooks by going after the lost Nine Parchments. As the…
Nine Parchments is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Frozenbyte, released 5 December 2017 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $1.99 at IndieGala.
What Nine Parchments is
Nine Parchments is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Frozenbyte and released in 2017. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Nine Parchments is a twin stick action role-playing game developed and published by Frozenbyte. The game was released for Nintendo Switch, Windows, and PlayStation 4 in 2017, and for Xbox One in 2018. The game's story revolves around students of the Astral Academy searching for the missing nine parchments.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 54 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Nine Parchments holds a critic score of 66 out of 100. That places it above 25% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 5 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3/i5/i7 1.8 GHz CPU dual-core. AMD 2.0 GHz dual-core., 4 GB RAM and 1 GB Video RAM - NVIDIA GeForce 500 Series / Radeon HD 6000 Series. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 7GB. 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 costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $1.99 at IndieGala, 90% below its usual price. Across the 3 stores we track, the same game ranges up to $4.00 — a spread of $2.01 for an identical product.
What it launched against
Nine Parchments launched on 5 December 2017, within three weeks of Star Wars Battlefront II, Hello Neighbor, Yakuza Kiwami 2 and Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Star Wars Battlefront II, Hello Neighbor, Yakuza Kiwami 2, Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Nine Parchments yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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