Pyre
A party-based RPG/visual novel/sports game hybrid wherein the player, dubbed the Reader for their literacy by the group of scavengers who discovers them, is sent in exile to a lawless wasteland called the…
Pyre is an adventure developed by Supergiant Games, released 25 July 2017 on PlayStation 4, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 16 hrs to finish.
What Pyre is
Pyre is an adventure game developed by Supergiant Games and released in 2017. It is available on PlayStation 4, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Pyre is an action role-playing video game developed and published by Supergiant Games. It was released in July 2017 for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and PlayStation 4, and in August 2017 for macOS. Elements from sports games were incorporated into the title's gameplay. It was the third game developed by Supergiant following Transistor (2014) and it received generally positive reviews upon release.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player. There are 51 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Pyre holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 86% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 15 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 84, across 149 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 16 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Dual Core 3.0ghz, 4 GB RAM and 1GB VRAM / OpenGL 2.1+ support. 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 9GB.
What it launched against
Pyre launched on 25 July 2017, within three weeks of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Sonic Mania and Splatoon 2. It reviewed better than all of them. 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: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Sonic Mania, Splatoon 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Pyre yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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Characters
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