The Inner Friend is an adventure developed by PLAYMIND, released 6 September 2018 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Inner Friend is
The Inner Friend is an adventure game developed by PLAYMIND and released in 2018. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Led by a mysterious Shadow, face fears and nightmares inhabiting its materialized subconscious universe. Dive into a unique and eerie world to relive the Shadow’s childhood memories and overcome them to restore what was once a safe haven. You’ll journey ever deeper through the subconscious to unravel a rich but wordless story and encounter gruesome beings that you must evade. Ultimately, however, you will have to face them.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, mystery and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
The Inner Friend holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 9 points below the year average.
What it launched against
The Inner Friend launched on 6 September 2018, within three weeks of Marvel's Spider-Man, Marvel's Spider-Man, Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Marvel's Spider-Man, Marvel's Spider-Man, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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