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Paranautical Activity

Paranautical Activity combines the classic FPS action of games like Doom and Quake, with the randomness and difficulty of modern roguelikes like Binding of Isaac and Spelunky.

65 20 October 2014

Paranautical Activity is an adventure developed by Code Avarice, released 20 October 2014 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Wii U.

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What Paranautical Activity is

Paranautical Activity is an adventure game developed by Code Avarice and released in 2014. It was published by Digerati Distribution. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Paranautical Activity combines the classic FPS action of games like Doom and Quake, with the randomness and difficulty of modern roguelikes like Binding of Isaac and Spelunky.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Paranautical Activity holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 24% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 4 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Paranautical Activity launched on 20 October 2014, within three weeks of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Alien: Isolation and Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition. 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: Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition.

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When did Paranautical Activity come out?
Paranautical Activity was released on 20 October 2014 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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