The Surge
The Surge is a sci-fi spin on Dark Souls, from the Lords of the Fallen team. A catastrophic event has knocked you out during the first day on the job... you wake up equipped with a heavy-grade exoskeleton, in…
The Surge is an adventure developed by Deck13 Interactive, released 15 May 2017 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $1.94 at Humble Store. The main story takes about 18 hrs to finish.
What The Surge is
The Surge is an adventure game developed by Deck13 Interactive and released in 2017. It was published by Focus Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on FLEDGE Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Set in a heavily dystopian future as Earth nears the end of its life, those who remain in the overpopulated cities must work to survive as social programs have become saturated by an aging population and increasing environmental diseases. The world of The Surge offers a very grim vision of the future, where the evolution of our technology, our society and our relation with the environment led to a decadent state of the Human civilization. Fitted with an advanced CREO exo-suit, balancing your core power against your implants and exo-suit upgrades will allow you to specialize in a huge variety of combat styles, thanks to the almost limitless combinations of addons and dozens of make-shift…
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. There are 67 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Surge holds a critic score of 72 out of 100. That places it above 42% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored about average for its year. Player ratings track closely with critics at 72, across 120 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 18 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 30 hrs, roughly 1.7 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $1.94, that works out to about $0.11 per hour of the main story, or $0.06 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for AMD FX-8320 (3,5 GHz) / Intel i5-4690K (3,5 GHz), 8 GB RAM and 1 GB, AMD Radeon R7 360 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti. An 8GB 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 $1.94 at Humble Store, 87% below its usual price.
What it launched against
The Surge launched on 15 May 2017, within three weeks of Prey, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and What Remains of Edith Finch. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Prey, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, What Remains of Edith Finch.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Surge yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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