The Pathless
The Pathless is a mythic adventure where you play as the Hunter, a skilled archer who explores a mysterious cursed island with an eagle companion. Your goal is to lift an unnatural shroud of darkness that…
The Pathless is an adventure developed by Giant Squid, released 12 November 2020 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. It currently starts at $6.29 at GameBillet. The main story takes about 6 hrs to finish.
What The Pathless is
The Pathless is an adventure game developed by Giant Squid and released in 2020. It was published by Annapurna Interactive. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A dark curse spreads across the world, radiating from a mythical island at the end of the sea where ancient god-spirits known as the Tall Ones once dwelled. The Hunter, a masterful archer, sails to the island determined to break the curse. There she claims a Spirit Mask that reveals hidden secrets and meets the creator spirit, the Eagle Mother, who is slowly dying from the same corruption. Behind the blight stands the Godslayer, a powerful figure who has cursed the Tall Ones and now seeks to reshape the world according to his own will. Joined by a loyal eagle companion who carries her across vast forests, plains, and ruins, the Hunter sets out to cleanse the four corrupted spirits and stop…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, mystery and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 43 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Pathless holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 8 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 79, across 56 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 6 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $6.29, that works out to about $1.05 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-2300 | AMD FX-4350, 6 GB RAM and Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 | AMD Radeon HD 7870. An 6GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 15GB. 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 costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $6.29 at GameBillet, 84% below its usual price. Across the 8 stores we track, the same game ranges up to $8.00 — a spread of $1.71 for an identical product.
What it launched against
The Pathless launched on 12 November 2020, within three weeks of Watch Dogs: Legion, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Assassin's Creed Valhalla. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Watch Dogs: Legion, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Assassin's Creed Valhalla.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Pathless yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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