Quantum Break
Fix Time Before It Destroys Everything! When time breaks, catastrophe becomes your playground. As hero Jack Joyce, you'll fight your way through epic disasters that stutter back and forth in time. But…
Quantum Break is an adventure developed by Remedy Entertainment, released 5 April 2016 on Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 17 hrs to finish.
What Quantum Break is
Quantum Break is an adventure game developed by Remedy Entertainment and released in 2016. It was published by Microsoft Studios. It is available on Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Northlight Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
"Time has been broken. A Fracture in time, created by a time travel experiment that has gone wrong, is advancing at an inexorable pace. As a result, time itself is now stuttering to a halt and then restarting, causing the world to turn into a frozen tableau. Most are unaware of the imminent disaster. Jack Joyce is not one of these people: changed by the same experiment, he can see the damage as the Fracture advances; time keeps slipping more and more out of joint and as the world loses synchronization, destruction on a massive scale ensues. Jack is desperately trying to find a way to prevent the Fracture from reaching its conclusion – that final moment when the last grain of sand in the…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 42 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Quantum Break holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 56% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 9 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 76, across 405 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 17 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 187.2 hrs, roughly 11 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-4460, 2.70GHz or AMD FX-6300, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or AMD Radeon R7 260x. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 68GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Quantum Break launched on 5 April 2016, within three weeks of Dark Souls III, Ratchet & Clank, Don't Starve Together and Hyper Light Drifter. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the Xbox One's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Dark Souls III, Ratchet & Clank, Don't Starve Together, Hyper Light Drifter.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Quantum Break yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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