The Assembly
A first-person interactive story inspired by real-world anxieties, The Assembly is a long-form game designed for VR. Explore a morally ambiguous organization as two individuals and face tough decisions from…
The Assembly is an adventure developed by nDreams, released 19 July 2016 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR, Xbox One and Oculus Rift.
What The Assembly is
The Assembly is an adventure game developed by nDreams and released in 2016. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR, Xbox One, Oculus Rift, PC (Microsoft Windows) and SteamVR. It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A first-person interactive story inspired by real-world anxieties, The Assembly is a long-form game designed for VR. Explore a morally ambiguous organization as two individuals and face tough decisions from contrasting perspectives, that culminate in one of multiple thrilling conclusions.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 29 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Assembly holds a critic score of 56 out of 100. That places it above 13% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 12 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater (VR), Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 2.40GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.4GHz (Non-VR), 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA GTX 970 or AMD 290 equivalent or greater (VR), AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series or equivalent (Non-VR). An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 5GB.
What it launched against
The Assembly launched on 19 July 2016, within three weeks of No Man's Sky, Inside, Abzu and Overcooked!. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: No Man's Sky, Inside, Abzu, Overcooked!.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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