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The UnderGarden

The UnderGarden is a casual Zen game that challenges players to explore beautiful underground caverns filled with strange life forms, sound, music and plenty of hidden secrets. Casual gamers with an affinity…

67 3 October 2010

The UnderGarden is an adventure developed by Retroism, released 3 October 2010 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What The UnderGarden is

The UnderGarden is an adventure game developed by Retroism and released in 2010. It was published by Artech Studios. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

The UnderGarden is a casual Zen game that challenges players to explore beautiful underground caverns filled with strange life forms, sound, music and plenty of hidden secrets. Casual gamers with an affinity towards puzzle games will enjoy The UnderGarden's modern exploration quest filled with brain teasing games that combine state of the art 3D rendering and physics based puzzles.
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How it plays

Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

The UnderGarden holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 29% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 3 points below the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel® Core™2 Duo E4300 or AMD Athlon X2 3800+ or faster, 1 GB of RAM and ATI Radeon X1650, Intel GMA HD 733mhz, NVIDIA GeForce 7600 or faster. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.

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What it launched against

The UnderGarden launched on 3 October 2010, within three weeks of Fallout: New Vegas, Sid Meier's Civilization V, Halo: Reach and Super Meat Boy. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Fallout: New Vegas, Sid Meier's Civilization V, Halo: Reach, Super Meat Boy.

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Quick answers

The UnderGarden — frequently asked questions

When did The UnderGarden come out?
The UnderGarden was released on 3 October 2010 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for The UnderGarden?
At minimum, The UnderGarden needs Intel® Core™2 Duo E4300 or AMD Athlon X2 3800+ or faster, 1 GB of RAM, ATI Radeon X1650, Intel GMA HD 733mhz, NVIDIA GeForce 7600 or faster graphics, 1 GB Free Disk Space of storage.
How many GB is The UnderGarden?
The PC version needs about 1 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("1 GB Free Disk Space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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