Vane
Vane is an atmospheric adventure about unraveling the secrets of an unknown land, finding your place in it, and pulling at the threads of the world to make a change. The shifting sands glimmer with meaning…
Vane is an adventure developed by Friend & Foe, released 15 January 2019 on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Vane is
Vane is an adventure game developed by Friend & Foe and released in 2019. It is available on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A child with an odd ability stuck in a strange land. A dangerous natural environment inhabited by a strange civilization. Vane is an open-world adventure game based on mystery and exploration.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 17 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Vane holds a critic score of 48 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 21 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 3.0Ghz CPU Dual Core, 4 GB RAM and Geforce GTX 750 / Radeon R7 260X. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB. 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
Vane launched on 15 January 2019, within three weeks of Kingdom Hearts III, Resident Evil 2, Slay the Spire and Apex Legends. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Kingdom Hearts III, Resident Evil 2, Slay the Spire, Apex Legends.
Official trailer
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