“Aporia: Beyond The Valley brings a unique approach to the art of storytelling, by not using text or dialogue. It offers new, interesting puzzle mechanics, and elaborate environmental storytelling within an immersive world.
Aporia: Beyond The Valley is a first person puzzle game set in the world of Ez’rat Qin. Explore a world filled with strange nature, ancient technology, and haunted by a spirit roaming the fog-covered forest. With a whole new story and puzzle mechanics, Aporia: Beyond The Valley presents players with the challenge of actively exploring and piecing together a non-linear story of what happened in this mysterious world. “
Aporia: Beyond The Valley is a first person puzzle game set in the world of Ez’rat Qin. Explore a world filled with strange nature, ancient technology, and haunted by a spirit roaming the fog-covered forest. With a whole new story and puzzle mechanics, Aporia: Beyond The Valley presents players with the challenge of actively exploring and piecing together a non-linear story of what happened in this mysterious world. “
(Preview)
(Preview)
An ancient world, long abandoned. Where has everyone gone? What lies beyond the valley?
is a single-player first person mystery adventure set a lavishly detailed open world.
You awake abandoned after hundreds of years of sleep in a crumbling temple of a once mighty civilization. Outside, a ruined city lies deep in the grip of a jungle.
Aporia: Beyond The Valley Key Features:
1, An immersive, detailed world created in CryEngine.
2, Explore a story about humanity, technology and civilization.
3, Avoid traps and solve brain twisting puzzles made to make you question what happened in The Valley.
4, Explore bizarre architecture and overgrown nature, choosing your own path in the game’s non-linear world.
5, Completely original musical score.
6, Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
"The mystical world of Ez’rat Qin - once a mighty civilisation, now a crumbled ruin.
You awake after hundreds of years of sleep, in an abandoned land and no memory of your past. Immersed in this world of dark beauty, thrilling mystery and ancient puzzles, you embark on a quest to find out what happened in this world, and to discover who you are."
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 3.0GHz / AMD Athlon II X3 455 | Intel Core i5-650 3.2GHz / AMD Athlon II X4 605e |
| CPU SPEED | Dual Core 3Ghz Processor | |
| VRAM | 2 GB | 2 GB |
| RAM | 4 GB | 8 GB |
| OS | Win 7 64 | Win 7 64 |
| Graphics Card | nVidia GeForce GTX 660 / AMD Radeon R7 370 | nVidia GeForce GTX 960 2GB / AMD Radeon R9 380 |
| Direct X | DX 11 | DX 11 |
| SOUND CARD | DirectX Compatible | DirectX Compatible |
| HDD Space | 20 GB | 20 GB |
| Game Analysis | Aporia: Beyond The Valley is a first person adventure puzzle game, set in a beautifully realised world and with a story told without text or dialogue. | |
| High FPS | 200+ FPS ( GTX 1060 ) | |
| Optimization Score | 5 | |
- Generally good graphics and textures
- Interesting mechanics (story murals, action imitating motion, use of light)
- Interesting story
- Indie developers (personally a plus)
- Indie
- Graphical settings made no diference (performance or quality)
- very resource intensive / poor optimization (the most intensive game I've played, and I have pretty much ran many of today's AAA titles on Ultra 1080p120)
- some wall barriers out of nowhere
- some of the object placement and environment were out of context
- camera clipping through objects
- shadows sometimes looked very odd
- object and texture popping with artifacts
- exploration game with little to explore
- crashes every 5 minutes (no, it was not my PC)
Although I really wanted to give reasons for the game to succeed, I just can’t justify it. I’ve played for about 5 hours, yet I never made it past Chapter 3. The game easily crashed 40+ times. I tried everything from driver updates, graphical settings, even capping the game at 60 fps. But to no avail. The game ran awful, despite meeting more than enough the recommended specs. Story aspect of the game and some of the mechanics seemed promising, but everything else was just poor.