Pawarumi (2018) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Pawarumi

Pawarumi is a modern shoot’em up set in a retro futuristic sci-fi pre-Columbian universe. You’ll take control of the almighty ship Chukaru and its three unique weapons! Shoot wisely to either do double damage…

80 30 January 2018

What Pawarumi is

Pawarumi is an arcade game developed by Manufacture 43 and released in 2018. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Pawarumi is a modern shoot’em up set in a retro futuristic sci-fi pre-Columbian universe. You’ll take control of the almighty ship Chukaru and its three unique weapons! Shoot wisely to either do double damage, heal yourself or charge your Super Attack!

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 30 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Pawarumi holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 68% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Core i3, 2 GB RAM and GeForce GTX 460. 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 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Pawarumi launched on 30 January 2018, within three weeks of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Monster Hunter: World, Celeste and Shadow of the Colossus. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Monster Hunter: World, Celeste, Shadow of the Colossus.

Pawarumi — frequently asked questions

When did Pawarumi come out?

Pawarumi was released on 30 January 2018 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for Pawarumi?

At minimum, Pawarumi needs Core i3, 2 GB RAM, GeForce GTX 460 graphics, 2 GB available space of storage.

How many GB is Pawarumi?

The PC version needs about 2 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("2 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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