Yesterday Origins
John Yesterday becomes immortal following an occult ritual. However, the ritual has been tampered with and things don't go quite as planned. Now he has to embark on an adventure to try and reproduce the…
Yesterday Origins is an adventure developed by Pendulo Studios, released 26 September 2016 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS. It currently starts at $0.99 at GOG. The main story takes about 11.7 hrs to finish.
What Yesterday Origins is
Yesterday Origins is an adventure game developed by Pendulo Studios and released in 2016. It was published by Microids. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Serving as both a prequel and a sequel to the earlier game Yesterday, the story follows John Yesterday and his girlfriend Pauline as they try to unravel the mystery of John's immortality. One thread reaches back centuries, to when John first became immortal: captured by the Spanish Inquisition, he escapes with the aid of Father Ginés, who translates the arcane Book of the Flesh in pursuit of a potion of immortality. The other thread plays out in the present day, where John and Pauline make their living dealing in rare artifacts. When John stumbles upon a clue linked to the Book of the Flesh, the discovery pulls the couple back into the dark secrets of his endless life, forcing them to…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 36 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Yesterday Origins holds a critic score of 68 out of 100. That places it above 30% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored about average for its year.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 11.7 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $0.99, that works out to about $0.08 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for AMD /Intel quad-core processor running at 2.2 GHz, 2048 MB RAM and ATI/NVIDIA dedicated/integrated or mobile graphic card, with at least 512MB of dedicated VRAM and with at least Shader Model 4.0 support. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 4GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $0.99 at GOG, 90% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Yesterday Origins launched on 26 September 2016, within three weeks of Persona 5, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, Forza Horizon 3 and Mafia III. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Persona 5, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, Forza Horizon 3, Mafia III.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Yesterday Origins yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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Characters
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