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Silk

Enter the biggest handcrafted open world of all time, fifty times larger than Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall! Explore three million square miles of uncharted terrain from Roman Damascus to Three Kingdoms China…

11 October 2019

Silk is an adventure developed by ihobo games, released 11 October 2019 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Linux.

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What Silk is

Silk is an adventure game developed by ihobo games and released in 2019. It was published by Huey Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Enter the biggest handcrafted open world of all time, fifty times larger than Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall! Explore three million square miles of uncharted terrain from Roman Damascus to Three Kingdoms China in an exploration RPG that transports you onto the Ancient Silk Road of 200AD.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are educational, historical and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Silk launched on 11 October 2019, within three weeks of The Outer Worlds, Disco Elysium, Persona 5 Royal and The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019). It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: The Outer Worlds, Disco Elysium, Persona 5 Royal, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019).

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When did Silk come out?
Silk was released on 11 October 2019 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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