Lucius
Third-person horror adventure about staging deadly accidents with supernatural powers
Shiver Games · Released Oct 26, 2012
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 81% of 11K
- Recent reviews
- Very Positive
- 80% of 31 in 30 days
- Playing now
- 12
- right now
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- 8 years ago
- Oct 31, 2017
Metacritic: 59/100 (critic reviews)
What is Lucius?
A third-person horror adventure set in Dante Manor. After gaining supernatural powers on his sixth birthday, Lucius explores the house and uses telekinesis and mind control to arrange deadly accidents for its residents.
For you if...
- +you enjoy solving grim puzzles with supernatural powers
- +you like single-player horror told from the villain's perspective
Not for you if...
- −you dislike gore and violence against household residents
- −you want freedom to improvise each kill
What players say
81% of 10,925 reviews are positive · 80% of 31 in the last 30 days
Players praise the dark humor, horror atmosphere, and varied death scenes. They most often complain about obscure, rigid puzzles and bugs that can block progress; some also find the controls clunky.
Screenshots and trailer
Lucius system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Windows XP, VISTA, 7
- Processor
- Pentium 4 1,5GHz or Athlon XP equivalent
- Graphics
- NVIDIA 8600 Series or ATI equivalent
- Memory
- 1.5 GB RAM
- Storage
- 3 GB HD space
Recommended
- OS
- Windows XP, VISTA, 7
- Processor
- Pentium Core 2 2,6GHz or AMD equivalent
- Graphics
- NVIDIA 260 GT Series or ATI equivalent with 512MB of Graphics Memory
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
- Storage
- 3 GB HD space
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Full controller support
- Platforms
- Windows
- Achievements
- 58
- Steam features
- Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards
Steam Deck: Playable
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- Gamepad not enabled by default
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
- External controllers are not supported for the primary player
Multiplayer and co-op
Languages
Full audio: English, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain. Text only: Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Simplified Chinese, French.
Tags
- Horror
- Adventure
- Villain Protagonist
- Gore
- Nudity
- Singleplayer
- Indie
- Puzzle
- Third Person
- Action
- Stealth
- Dark
- Psychological Horror
- Atmospheric
- Violent
- Difficult
Recent updates
- Oct 31, 2017 · 简体中文 Simplified Chinese
- Dec 21, 2015 · 1.04 Update
- Dec 21, 2015 · 1.04 Update
- Dec 4, 2015 · 1.03.0001 Hungarian language update.
- Dec 4, 2015 · 1.03.0001 Hungarian language update.
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