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Vidar

In the middle of a blizzard, a community's remaining citizens are forced to confront their impending deaths. Every night, a villager is killed, and the survivors are forced to alter their course in response…

76 14 June 2017

Vidar is an adventure, released 14 June 2017 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Vidar is

Vidar was released in 2017. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

In the middle of a blizzard, a community's remaining citizens are forced to confront their impending deaths. Every night, a villager is killed, and the survivors are forced to alter their course in response. Every game creates a new, randomized story just for you. Chart a path through always-changing, challenging environmental puzzles, and explore the stories and grief of these townsfolk before Vidar is lost forever.
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How it plays

It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Vidar holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 5 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Vidar launched on 14 June 2017, within three weeks of Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Diablo III: Eternal Collection, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and Tekken 7. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Diablo III: Eternal Collection, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Tekken 7.

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When did Vidar come out?
Vidar was released on 14 June 2017 for Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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