North
Dealing with the issue of the contemporary refugee crisis while at the same time being deeply rooted in a classical cyberpunk atmosphere à la Blade Runner, NORTH features a dark synthpop soundtrack, a…
North is an adventure developed by Outlands, released 26 February 2016 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One.
What North is
North is an adventure game developed by Outlands and released in 2016. It was published by Sometimes You. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Dealing with the issue of the contemporary refugee crisis while at the same time being deeply rooted in a classical cyberpunk atmosphere à la Blade Runner, NORTH features a dark synthpop soundtrack, a sprawling mega-city and weird monster-like inhabitants.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are mystery and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
North holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 8 points below the year average.
What it launched against
North launched on 26 February 2016, within three weeks of Tom Clancy's The Division, Stardew Valley, Firewatch and SuperHot. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Tom Clancy's The Division, Stardew Valley, Firewatch, SuperHot.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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