The Silent Age
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The Silent Age is an adventure developed by House on Fire, released 21 February 2013 on Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 4 hrs to finish.
What The Silent Age is
The Silent Age is an adventure game developed by House on Fire and released in 2013. It is available on Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Help Joe as he travels between the groovy present of 1972 and the apocalyptic future of 2012 to discover the truth behind humankind's extinction - a quest entrusted to him by a dying man from the future. Use your portable time travel device to solve puzzles that bring you closer to answers and saving humanity.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy, historical, science fiction and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 24 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Silent Age holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year. Player ratings track closely with critics at 71, across 69 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 4 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM and 256 MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 4GB. 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 Silent Age launched on 21 February 2013, within three weeks of Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm and Mass Effect 3: Citadel. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, Mass Effect 3: Citadel.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Silent Age yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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