Slender: The Arrival is an adventure developed by Blue Isle Studios, released 26 March 2013 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Wii U and Xbox One. The main story takes about 2 hrs to finish.
What Slender: The Arrival is
Slender: The Arrival is an adventure game developed by Blue Isle Studios and released in 2013. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A survival horror tale built around the Slender Man legend, Slender: The Arrival follows a young woman named Lauren who travels to the secluded Oakside Park to help her childhood best friend Kate move out of her family home. When she arrives, she finds the house empty and unsettled, Kate's belongings scattered and her bedroom covered in frantic drawings and scrawled warnings about a tall, faceless figure. With Kate nowhere to be found and screams echoing from beyond the tree line, Lauren steps out into the surrounding forest to search for her friend. Armed with nothing but a flashlight, she picks her way through the darkened woods and abandoned places, gathering scattered clues to Kate's…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 21 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Slender: The Arrival holds a critic score of 61 out of 100. That places it above 20% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 9 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 66, across 70 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 2 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Ryzen 3600 or better, 8 GB RAM and GTX 1060 with 4gb of ram or better. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 20GB. 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
Slender: The Arrival launched on 26 March 2013, within three weeks of BioShock Infinite, Tomb Raider, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm and Age of Empires II HD. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: BioShock Infinite, Tomb Raider, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, Age of Empires II HD.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Slender: The Arrival yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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Screenshots
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Dlc
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