The First Descendant
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The First Descendant is an adventure developed by Nexon Games, released 2 July 2024 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It is free to play. The main story takes about 43 hrs to finish.
What The First Descendant is
The First Descendant is an adventure game developed by Nexon Games and released in 2024. It was published by Nexon Korea. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 5.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The player becomes a Descendant in the game and is given a mission to fight against the invaders for the survival of humans and to protect the ‘Ingris continent’. The player can experience a spectacular story by growing stronger through various missions and stories to finally discover the Descendants' secret.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 24 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The First Descendant holds a critic score of 30 out of 100. That places it above 2% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2024 averaged 76, so it scored 46 points below the year average. Players rate it 45, 15 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 43 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel i5-3570 / AMD FX-8350, 8 GB RAM and GeForce GTX 1050Ti / AMD Radeon RX 570 / Intel Arc A380. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. It also needs around 100GB of free storage, which is a real consideration on a 512GB drive. 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
The First Descendant launched on 2 July 2024, within three weeks of Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, Nobody Wants to Die, Still Wakes the Deep and Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, Nobody Wants to Die, Still Wakes the Deep, Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The First Descendant yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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