The Fall
The Fall is a side-scrolling adventure game with platforming and combat elements. Your character is an AI controlling a combat suit whose occupant is unresponsive and presumably dead or seriously injured. You…
The Fall is an adventure developed by Over The Moon, released 30 May 2014 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Wii U and Xbox One. The main story takes about 4.7 hrs to finish.
What The Fall is
The Fall is an adventure game developed by Over The Moon and released in 2014. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Fall is a 2014 action-adventure and side-scrolling platform game by Canadian independent developer Over the Moon. The game was released in May 2014 for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux through Steam, GOG, and the Humble Store; released for Wii U through the Nintendo eShop in August 2014; and released for PlayStation 4 through the PlayStation Store and for Xbox One through Xbox Live in July 2015. An improved port of the game was released for the Nintendo Switch via Nintendo eShop in May 2018.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 17 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Fall holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 9 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 78, across 55 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 4.7 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.5 GHz dual core, 3 GB RAM and GeForce 8600 or equivalent, 256 MB memory. At 3GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it launched against
The Fall launched on 30 May 2014, within three weeks of Watch Dogs, Mario Kart 8, Wolfenstein: The New Order and Transistor. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Watch Dogs, Mario Kart 8, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Transistor.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Fall yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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