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Year Walk

In the old days man tried to catch a glimpse of the future in the strangest of ways. Experience the ancient Swedish phenomena of year walking through a different kind of first person adventure that blurs the…

87 21 February 2013

Year Walk is an adventure developed by Simogo, released 21 February 2013 on iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Year Walk is

Year Walk is an adventure game developed by Simogo and released in 2013. It is available on iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 10 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Year Walk holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 17 points above the year average. Players rate it 81, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

How long it takes, and what that costs

A full completion run takes around 2 hrs.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 2 GHz, 1 GB RAM and Pixel Shader 2.0, 256 MB. 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. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Year Walk launched on 21 February 2013, within three weeks of Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm and Mass Effect 3: Citadel. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, Mass Effect 3: Citadel.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Year Walk yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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Quick answers

Year Walk — frequently asked questions

When did Year Walk come out?
Year Walk was released on 21 February 2013 for iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Year Walk?
At minimum, Year Walk needs 2 GHz, 1 GB RAM, Pixel Shader 2.0, 256 MB graphics, 1100 MB available space of storage.
How many GB is Year Walk?
The PC version needs about 1.1 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("1100 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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