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Essays 29 December 2020, 18:00

author: Darius Matusiak

Beautiful Desolation. The best games of 2020 you can beat in 10 hours

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  1. Release date: February 26, 2020
  2. Developer: The Brotherhood
  3. Genre: isometric adventure game with RPG elements
  4. Average time to beat according to howlongtobeat.com: 8 hours and 24 minutes

Post-apocalypse is a fairly common topic in video games, but rarely in adventure games, where the gameplay focuses on exploration and solving puzzles. In addition, few such stories set in Africa, which somehow has no luck when the devs decide the setting of various games. Add to that a reasonable playthrough time of about eight hours, and we have three good reasons to be interested in a work titled Beautiful Desolation.

It's an isometric adventure game, in which we travel through the African wastelands and settlements destroyed by the great conflict that broke out just after a great civilization leap. We use advanced technology and retro-futuristic gadgets from the 1980s to solve puzzles. We encounter mutated animals and numerous NPCs. It is worth emphasizing that the devs do not lead us by the hand, and with many tasks we really need to rack one's brain. And the creation of the game world involved Brian Fargo himself – the creator of Fallout.

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Darius Matusiak

Darius Matusiak

Graduate of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Journalism. He started writing about games in 2013 on his blog on gameplay.pl, from where he quickly moved to the Reviews and Editorials department of Gamepressure. Sometimes he also writes about movies and technology. A gamer since the heyday of Amiga. Always a fan of races, realistic simulators and military shooters, as well as games with an engaging plot or exceptional artistic style. In his free time, he teaches how to fly in modern combat fighter simulators on his own page called Szkola Latania. A huge fan of arranging his workstation in the "minimal desk setup" style, hardware novelties and cats.

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