Phoenotopia: Awakening
Join Gail, a simple villager, who must heed the call for adventure when a great starship appears in the night sky and abducts all the adults. As the new oldest member of her fragmented community, she must set…
Phoenotopia: Awakening is an adventure developed by Cape Cosmic, released 20 August 2020 on Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It currently starts at $4.99 at GOG.
What Phoenotopia: Awakening is
Phoenotopia: Awakening is an adventure game developed by Cape Cosmic and released in 2020. It is available on Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity 2017.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The story follows the adventures of a girl named Gale, who sets out into the world to find out what happened to her village after a mysterious object descends from the sky and abducts almost everyone. Gale embarks on an epic quest that takes her to many different locations, solving puzzles, finding friends, and battling ferocious enemies, in order to find answers.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Phoenotopia: Awakening holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 7 points above the year average.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $4.99 at GOG, 75% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Phoenotopia: Awakening launched on 20 August 2020, within three weeks of Marvel's Avengers, Factorio, Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout and Risk of Rain 2. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 7 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Marvel's Avengers, Factorio, Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, Risk of Rain 2.
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