Condemned: Criminal Origins on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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What twists the mind of an ordinary human into a serial killer?

Condemned: Criminal Origins is a horror, action and first-person game developed by monolith and published by SEGA.
Released on October 29th 2012 is available only on Windows in 5 languages: English, German, French, Italian and Spanish - Spain.

It has received 3,867 reviews of which 3,360 were positive and 507 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.26€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Condemned: Criminal Origins into these genres:

Horror Action First-Person Atmospheric Survival Horror Psychological Horror Crime Singleplayer FPS Detective Gore Dark Classic Difficult Mystery Survival Thriller Story Rich Shooter Beat 'em up

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *:Windows XP
Processor:2.0 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon equivalent (2.4 GHz recommended)
Memory:512 MB RAM
Graphics:DirectX 9.0 compatible video card with at least 128 MB video RAM
DirectX®:9.0
Hard Drive:8 GB HD space
Sound:DirectX 9.0 compatible sound card
Additional:No controller support.

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March 2025

Great classic, unfortunately the game needs a file to help prevent the fps from dropping in game. The link is from a discussion page on steam that explains it better and will show you how to do it: https://steamcommunity.com/app/4720/discussions/0/3828665650634062132/

Nov. 2024

its been a while since i experienced a piece of art where pretty much every flaw just ended up making it more compelling to Me Specifically...super uncritically morally depraved in a way that perfectly reinforces the hyper-draining aesthetic, emotional, and mechanical experience. its easy for this kind of ultra-nihilism to just collapse into utter weightlessness, and while im not gonna pretend like u Feel The Loss Of Every Human Life You Take or whatever, the game is incredibly good at maintaining a deliciously and addictively pitch-dark weightiness. havent played a game since manhunt that has made all violence, whether committed by you or against u, this unpleasant. the narrative is mostly paper-thin but i am predictably generous to the parts where it breaks Best Practices as it slowly reveals its more outlandish genre leanings...there is even a source of comfort in the feeling that the world is Abandoned and being Corrupted, simply because it implies this is not its natural state. and its difficult to buy that the game gets worse as it goes on when its last level especially is one of the most satisfying mechanical climaxes ive experienced in a game in forever...kind of illustrative of lost potential as u imagine a whole game that made u learn more than one set of animations, but an extremely fun and challenging gauntlet all the same that proves that the simplicity of the game can still hold up to upscaling. if i could make video games, mashing up this set of mechanics with a manhunt spiritual successor would absolutely be a project idea id consider

Nov. 2024

Genuinely creepy game. This was one of the first I played when the XBOX360 came out. Even all these years later it still sticks out in my mind because of the erie atmosphere and jump in graphics compared to PS2 era stuff, especially the lighting and motion capture. The ambient sound and music is also really good (the main voice actor isnt that great though). I realized the gameplay is also pretty solid as I go through it again now. If you look at the recent Resident Evil games and stuff like Dying Light I think some of those took a cue from the story telling of first person horror like this. even The Last of Us has crazed tweakers and violent freaks similar to Condemned, as well as an animal-born type plague. This game did a lot of those things first but not as many people played it

Oct. 2024

Revisiting this game after nearly 20 years I can conclude it still holds up very well. Condemned: Criminal Origins is a real tone poem and a perfect example of "less is more". All you do is explore creepy abandoned buildings and fight rabid degenerates. No leveling, no inventory, barely even a HUD. Just atmosphere so thick you can cut it with a knife. Execution is near perfect, from sound design to lighting. The enemy AI deserves special mention, providing a frequent source of organic tension and scares. The final level is a bit of a dud and the story is a little wacky (and gets increasingly so as the game goes on), but apart from that a very enjoyable experience. Strong recommend!

Aug. 2024

Very dark, brutal and raw experience. Must play if you enjoyed games like Riddick, FEAR, Doom 3 or The Darkness. I miss that era of atmospheric FPP games. Also it's a shame that Condemned 2 never got a PC release, it's very underrated, for me even better than the first game.

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