Shadowrun Returns
The year is 2054. Magic has returned to the world, awakening powerful creatures of myth and legend. Technology merges with flesh and consciousness. Elves, trolls, orks and dwarves walk among us, while ruthless…
Shadowrun Returns is an adventure developed by Harebrained Schemes, released 25 July 2013 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. It currently starts at $3.75 at GOG. The main story takes about 9.1 hrs to finish.
What Shadowrun Returns is
Shadowrun Returns is an adventure game developed by Harebrained Schemes and released in 2013. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The player assumes the role of a shadowrunner who has fallen onto hard times since his or her last shadowrun in 2050. One of the player's teammates from that mission, Sam Watts, sends a pre-recorded video message to the player, where he reveals that he is likely dead, and that his final wish is that the player find whomever killed him. He also announces that he has 100,000 nuyen being held in escrow for the player should he bring whomever was responsible for his death to justice. Knowing that Sam resides in Seattle, the player travels to the city to begin their investigation. Upon arriving in Seattle and visiting the morgue where Sam's body is being examined, the player discovers that Sam…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Shadowrun series
Shadowrun Returns is the fourth of 9 entries we hold in the Shadowrun series. It arrived 6 years after Shadowrun. The next entry was Shadowrun: Dragonfall in 2014. Its critic score of 73 is 2 points below the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Shadowrun: Dragonfall at 83.
How it was received
Shadowrun Returns holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 44% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 3 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 74, across 197 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 9.1 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 25.3 hrs, roughly 2.8 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $3.75, that works out to about $0.41 per hour of the main story, or $0.15 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for x86-compatible 1.4GHz or faster processor, 2 GB RAM and DirectX compatible 3D graphics card with at least 256MB of addressable memory. 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.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $3.75 at GOG, 75% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Shadowrun Returns launched on 25 July 2013, within three weeks of Dota 2, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please and Europa Universalis IV. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Dota 2, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please, Europa Universalis IV.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Shadowrun Returns yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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