A Plague Tale: Requiem
A Plague Tale: Requiem is a PlayStation 5 adventure game developed by Asobo Studio. It centers on combat encounters, area and route exploration, and objective or clue progression, with controls and information arranged around the DualSense twin sticks, triggers, directional pad, and face buttons, with touchpad, motion input, adaptive triggers, and detailed haptics where the game uses them.
- AI score · out of 10
- 8.6 / 10
About this game
A Plague Tale: Requiem is a PlayStation 5 adventure game centered on combat encounters, area and route exploration, and objective or clue progression. Locations, objectives, and clues gradually open the main chapters, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Theme, character expression, and environmental clues need to support exploration together, while SSD streaming, 4K and HDR output, 3D audio, performance or quality modes, and high-density interfaces need to preserve feedback and information clarity together. The genre-specific limitation is that guidance, objective triggers, camera behavior, or dense text can create search and comprehension costs. Platform conditions also include install size, SSD space, patch version, DualSense battery life, visual mode and frame rate, online dependencies, PS VR2 requirements, and cross-generation version differences affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
Collected in series
A Plague Tale blends story-led adventure with a threatening medieval world. Amicia and Hugo’s games use stealth, light and environmental puzzles to survive soldiers and rats; the Sophia-led prequel Resonance brings a stronger focus on close combat and exploration.
A Plague Tale: Innocence
Jul 6, 2021
- PlayStation 42019 · 7.8 / 10
- PlayStation 42019 · 7.8 / 10
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More room to improvise within an emotionally demanding journey.
A Plague Tale: Requiem preserves the siblings vulnerability while giving encounters more room to breathe. Detection can lead to a changing plan rather than an immediate restart, with the crossbow and environmental tools supporting different responses. Combat, light-based puzzles and exploration create variety, while landscapes and rat swarms serve the characters emotional journey instead of standing alone as spectacle. Some forced-failure sections still interrupt that momentum, and the heavy narrative asks for sustained attention. PS5 later received a performance mode targeting 60fps with reduced visual settings. That update matters: launch frame-rate criticism is not the only available picture, but a supported target is not a guarantee in every scene. The result is an excellent directed adventure with meaningful, clearly bounded limitations.
Strengths
- Encounters permit recovery and tactical changes.
- Character, music and environment reinforce emotional stakes.
Weaknesses
- Some forced failures interrupt progression.
- Performance mode trades visual quality for responsiveness.
Who it is for: Players seeking tense, story-led single-player adventures.
Play notes: Familiarity with Innocence helps. Contains disturbing themes; technical scope combines dated review evidence and the 2023 official patch.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Alternating combat, stealth and rat puzzles provides variety, with some abrupt failure sections. | Reviewed | 8.1 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Wider encounters and the crossbow allow recovery after detection without removing vulnerability. | Reviewed | 8.7 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Landscapes, swarms and performances support character emotion rather than detached spectacle. | Reviewed | 9.3 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension The later patch adds a 60fps-target mode with visual trade-offs; official support is not proof of a universal lock. | Reviewed | 8.0 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Asobo Studio
- Publisher
- Focus
- Release date
- Oct 18, 2022
- Platforms
- PlayStation 5
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Adventure · Primary genre
- Tags
- Solo-friendlyThird PersonWarLinear LevelsReal-time Combat3D GraphicsSlow BurnInvestigationStory-drivenPuzzle SolvingExplorationMain Story 10–20 Hours
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Single player
- Perspectives
- Third person
Release editions
- PlayStation 5WorldwideOct 18, 2022
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