When did The Caligula Effect come out?

The Caligula Effect was released on 23 June 2016 for PlayStation Vita.

The Caligula Effect (2016) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

The Caligula Effect

Featuring a story written by Persona veteran Tadashi Satomi, The Caligula Effect takes you inside a digital prison filled with brainwashed high school students, evil musicians, and an all-powerful virtual idol.

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What The Caligula Effect is

The Caligula Effect is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Aquria and released in 2016. It was published by Atlus. It is available on PlayStation Vita only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Featuring a story written by Persona veteran Tadashi Satomi, The Caligula Effect takes you inside a digital prison filled with brainwashed high school students, evil musicians, and an all-powerful virtual idol.

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How it plays

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

How it was received

The Caligula Effect holds a critic score of 57 out of 100. That places it above 11% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 11 points below the year average.

What it launched against

The Caligula Effect launched on 23 June 2016, within three weeks of Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Inside, Hearts of Iron IV and VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Inside, Hearts of Iron IV, VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action.

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