Valkyria Chronicles 4

A Continent Engulfed in the Bitter Flames of War! Commander Claude Wallace and his childhood friends set out to fight in a desperate war, but bone-chilling blizzards, waves of imperial soldiers, and the…

84 21 March 2018

Role-playing (RPG) Simulator Strategy Tactical Turn-based strategy (TBS) Action Fantasy Historical Warfare

Valkyria Chronicles 4 is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Media.Vision, released 21 March 2018 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 35 hrs to finish.

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What Valkyria Chronicles 4 is

Valkyria Chronicles 4 is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Media.Vision and released in 2018. It was published by Sega. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on CANVAS Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

"The continent of Europa is engulfed in the flames of the Second Europan War between the Atlantic Federation and the Autocratic Eastern Imperial Alliance. Although the Federation struggles valiantly against the Empire’s forces, the relentless imperial military machine threatens to consume them. With victory slipping away, the Federation executes Operation Northern Cross: a last-ditch attempt to capture the imperial capital and end the war. Commander Claude Wallace and his loyal childhood friends in Squad E are sent to fight for the desperate operation’s success, but they will have to endure harsh bone-chilling elements, waves of imperial soldiers, and the terrifying Valkyria... and unravel…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Valkyria series

Valkyria Chronicles 4 is the 67th of 75 entries we hold in the Valkyria series. The next entry was Valkyria Chronicles 4: Memoirs From Battle Edition in 2018. Its critic score of 84 is 3 points above the series average of 81. The highest-rated entry is Valkyria Chronicles at 90.

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How it was received

Valkyria Chronicles 4 holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 79% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 15 points above the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 35 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 75.5 hrs, roughly 2.2 times the length of the critical path.

What it launched against

Valkyria Chronicles 4 launched on 21 March 2018, within three weeks of Far Cry 5, Sea of Thieves, A Way Out and Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. 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: Far Cry 5, Sea of Thieves, A Way Out, Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom.

Cheats and codes

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