Raven's Cry (2015) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Raven's Cry

Raven's Cry plunges you into the dark world of the Golden Age of Piracy, as you follow the story of Christopher Raven and his quest for vengeance against the men who murdered his family. Players can immerse…

35 26 January 2015

What Raven's Cry is

Raven's Cry is an adventure game developed by Reality Pump and released in 2015. It was published by TopWare Interactive. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Caught between the rival powers of the Old World, mysterious native tribes, cutthroats, and buccaneers, players assume the role of Christopher Raven, as he explores both land and sea, travels to unexplored corners of the Caribbean, and to the dark corners of the human heart. Haunted by his inner demons, plagued by dreams of his bloody past, Christopher is a man adrift, having lost his moral compass and any sense of direction. The death of his family has pushed him to the brink of madness, awakening evil forces within him, which Christopher barely keeps in check as he struggles to find his life’s purpose. A routine sea voyage soon leads Christopher down a dark path that will send shockwaves…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

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

How it was received

Raven's Cry holds a critic score of 35 out of 100. That places it above 3% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 34 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Raven's Cry launched on 26 January 2015, within three weeks of Life Is Strange, Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition, Dying Light and Resident Evil HD Remaster. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Life Is Strange, Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition, Dying Light, Resident Evil HD Remaster.

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