Ziggurat
Dungeon-Crawling First Person Shooting at its finest! Fast-paced combat! Dozens of perks, spells and enemies! Level ups! Random Dungeons! Traps! Badass bosses! Carrots! Ziggurat is the best combination of…
Ziggurat is an indie developed by Milkstone Studios, released 23 October 2014 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Wii U and Xbox One. It currently starts at $2.25 at GOG. The main story takes about 7 hrs to finish.
What Ziggurat is
Ziggurat is an indie game developed by Milkstone Studios and released in 2014. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Ziggurat is a first-person shooter dungeon crawl video game developed and published by Milkstone Studios. The game was released for Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Mac in October 2014 after being available for two months in early access. The game was released in 2015 for the Xbox One in March, and PlayStation 4 in April. It was inspired by Heretic and Hexen: Beyond Heretic. A sequel, titled Ziggurat 2, was released on October 28, 2021.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 38 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Ziggurat holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 65% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 7 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $2.25, that works out to about $0.32 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Dual Core processor, 2 GB RAM and DirectX 10 capable hardware. 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 1GB. 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 costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $2.25 at GOG, 85% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Ziggurat launched on 23 October 2014, within three weeks of The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition and Assassin's Creed Unity. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition, Assassin's Creed Unity.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Ziggurat 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.
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