The Complex (2020) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

The Complex

The Complex is a female-driven, cinematic FMV sci-fi thriller. The interactive movie stars Michelle Mylett, Kate Dickie and Al Weaver. Actors also include Twitch streamer and Xbox UK presenter, Leah Viathan.

72 31 March 2020

What The Complex is

The Complex is an adventure game developed by Wales Interactive and released in 2020. It is available on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

After a major bio-weapon attack on London, two scientists find themselves in a locked-down laboratory with time, and air, running out. With over 100 interactive choices, you will attempt to escape the lab with several different endings that are discovered based on your decisions and your relationships with other characters.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

Its themes are science fiction and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

The Complex holds a critic score of 72 out of 100. That places it above 42% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

The Complex launched on 31 March 2020, within three weeks of Final Fantasy VII Remake, Doom Eternal, Ori and the Will of the Wisps and Animal Crossing: New Horizons. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Final Fantasy VII Remake, Doom Eternal, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Cheats and codes

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