Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning™
analyzed 2026-09-24 · sample of 672 English reviews across the whole review history
Across 672 sampled reviews, combat is the most frequently discussed aspect, mentioned in 33.9% of them, and it draws mostly positive remarks, with players citing "very good controls and combat system" and an "Easy to learn battle system". The world (20.5%) and story (26.9%) also lean positive, and build variety stands out: 63 of 66 mentions are favorable, with players noting you can play "warrior, rogue, mage—whatever fits your mood". Content amount, progression, and customization follow the same pattern. Opinion splits elsewhere. Quest design (19.0%) draws 64 positive against 52 negative mentions, and writing is nearly even at 12 positive to 14 negative. Difficulty (8.0%) skews negative, with complaints that it is "SO easy", while balance (5.8%) and pacing (3.4%) are largely criticized. Characters (6.4%) and bugs (6.1%) also draw more negative than positive mentions, the latter including "bugs that will never be fixed". Players also bring up camera, crafting, grind, and loot. Smaller groups note platform access, stability, and developer conduct unfavorably, while addictiveness, exploration, and music are spoken of warmly.
numbers checked against this report's stored data · quotes copied verbatim from reviews · plain text is the language model's own wording
Aspects
share of sample, axis to 40% · ± is the sampling uncertainty around each share
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combat
167 positive · 33 negative · 24 mixed · 4 neutral
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Beautiful graphics, varied environment, interesting builds, very good controls and combat system and above all an epic story.
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This has everything a good RPG needs, AND the fighting is awesome.
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Easy to learn battle system and satisfying reward system make it worth a play through.
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story
119 positive · 42 negative · 10 mixed · 10 neutral
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Beautiful graphics, varied environment, interesting builds, very good controls and combat system and above all an epic story.
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Highly enjoyable, fun gameplay, good story, quite a bit of customization and seemingly great deal of replayability.
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Music is great, dialog and stories are engaging, combat is interesting.
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world
113 positive · 20 negative · 4 mixed · 1 neutral
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Beautiful graphics, varied environment, interesting builds, very good controls and combat system and above all an epic story.
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I love the world and the characters I have met so far.
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Open world concept (Elder Scrolls, GTA, Sacred), but semi-lineared (like sacred), high octane combat (God Of War, Devil May Cry, Bayonetta), a solid skill tree (Champions of Norrath, Dragon Age, Guild Wars 2), and a fairly vibrant world.
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quest design
64 positive · 52 negative · 12 mixed · 0 neutral
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The missions are, for the most part, interesting and fun. The art style is reminiscent of WoW, but the character models aren't so saturday morning cartoonish.
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A good interesting story with plenty of side quests.
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There are so many quests in this game that the main story line is easily overlooked. I love that you can set your own pace. Do what quests you like or want.
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graphics
72 positive · 20 negative · 5 mixed · 5 neutral
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Beautiful graphics, varied environment, interesting builds, very good controls and combat system and above all an epic story.
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This game has a lot quests and great graphics, I would recommend this game for anybody who enjoys RPGs like me ;)
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And the visuals are incredible!
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content amount
82 positive · 12 negative · 4 mixed · 1 neutral
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This game has a lot quests and great graphics, I would recommend this game for anybody who enjoys RPGs like me ;)
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There is ALOT of game here and definitely worth the price when it's on sale.
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quests are good and plentiful there is always something to do.
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progression
75 positive · 16 negative · 3 mixed · 5 neutral
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The skill trees are easy to use, but leave a good amount of room for you to customize your character to your style of play. The missions are, for the most part, interesting and fun.
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Good progression system.
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you're pretty much free to tweak and palce your skills and abilities in any order and form you wish!
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price value
57 positive · 5 negative · 21 mixed · 5 neutral
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I bought this game on sale would have paid full price love this game.
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A must buy on sale!
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Easy to learn battle system and satisfying reward system make it worth a play through.
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gameplay
52 positive · 19 negative · 6 mixed · 3 neutral
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Highly enjoyable, fun gameplay, good story, quite a bit of customization and seemingly great deal of replayability.
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Really fun mechanics, and a decent story, one of my favourite RPGS and a must play for any RPG lover.
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Story by some of my favorite authors (you can really tell in most cases), gameplay executed in a simple, easy to figure out setup, and visually appealing.
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build variety
63 positive · 2 negative · 1 mixed · 0 neutral
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Beautiful graphics, varied environment, interesting builds, very good controls and combat system and above all an epic story.
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I went full Warrior, you can do Thief and Mage as well or any combo of the 3. I hear people call this a mix of God of War and Oblvion.
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Since you’re basically built different, every choice you make rewrites fate, and you can speedrun different classes—warrior, rogue, mage—whatever fits your mood.
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difficulty
13 positive · 34 negative · 1 mixed · 6 neutral
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I remember quitting because I basically had to kill the boss without taking a hit.
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The combat is cool but SO easy. You basically button mash and auto target.
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It's only serious drawback is its lack of difficulty, which can be corrected using a widely-available mod.
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customization
43 positive · 2 negative · 5 mixed · 1 neutral
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Highly enjoyable, fun gameplay, good story, quite a bit of customization and seemingly great deal of replayability.
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Quality character customization.
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Not to mention the weapon crafting system and the gem crafting/socketing system that further enchance the customzation.
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art style
40 positive · 5 negative · 4 mixed · 1 neutral
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If you like third person, mission driven RPGs with a cartoonish art style like Fable, then you'll probably enjoy this game.
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The blend of sword and magic and the stylish art style remind me of the Fable series.
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I am a sucker for a game with not only good graphics, but the art behind the graphics. The style. I'm not good at explaining these things, but I'm sure once you start playing, you'll understand what i mean.
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lore
36 positive · 7 negative · 4 mixed · 0 neutral
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Equal parts challenging, and equal parts effortless; the lore is rich, the conversations are deep and engaging with the NPCs, they tell you all you need to know about the lore.
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- In-depth lore and storyline, well exceeding expectations of this game genre
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With the combat diversity of Star Wars the Force Unleashed and the depth of lore of the Final Fantasy series, I can't recommend this game enough.
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characters
15 positive · 28 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral
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Really cool game,one of the most entertaining RPG's i've played but it's lacking personification in characters.
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I didn't give a ♥♥♥♥ about my character or anyone else.
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Leaving you stuck with lackluster NPCs, fetch/kill quests, and a world that just seems.
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dlc
27 positive · 11 negative · 4 mixed · 1 neutral
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DLC that's actually worth it.
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Both the DLC's are good to i have completed the teeth of naros, and almost done the dead kel.
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DLC is wonderful and fits into the lore nicely.
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bugs
4 positive · 35 negative · 1 mixed · 1 neutral
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All in all this is a great game for time killing and its quite immersive, once you get past its bugs that will never be fixed though dont really interfere with anything, its camera, its drop system.
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Unfortnately was not able to due to a certian glitch and me not saving several (11) hours of gameplay, and do not want to redo all i did.
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(Though I did run into some trouble where the game was just completely black, still with audio and all, that could only be fixed by turning off post-fx.
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controls
19 positive · 17 negative · 5 mixed · 0 neutral
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Beautiful graphics, varied environment, interesting builds, very good controls and combat system and above all an epic story.
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It has a good history (very important for a RPG) the controls are nice.
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super easy control really nice game
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game length
21 positive · 9 negative · 0 mixed · 11 neutral
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Good game that will offer hundreds of hours of fun!
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It is very high quality, with long play time.
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23 hours and maybe a third done maximum, get lost in numerous side quests or make your own epic gear.
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balance
2 positive · 34 negative · 3 mixed · 0 neutral
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And then I got stuck in DLC land when I wasn't the proper level.
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Loot/prizes are a little to easy to co me across - I've never played a game where having moire than half a million was par for the course.
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It starts good but after 20 minutes of gameplay, apart from the bland quests, found a box with all powerfull weapons and with that all game completely become so easy to be uninstalled.
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level design
11 positive · 24 negative · 2 mixed · 0 neutral
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Oftentimes, youll be on a cliff or ledge, youll have to find the predetermined spot that the game allows you to jump off. Its not hard its just a bit silly. Its the only time youll be able to jump in the game.
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The world itself is much more linear than they would have you belive , and since a zone only scales to your level the first time you enter there is very little reason to backtrack except when you want/need to visit trainers.
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Seems like a cool premise, but the quests are rather boring and the landscape and dungeons honestly start to feel the same, I've cleared the majority of the western map, including its dungeons now and there's different textures and what not, …
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voice acting
20 positive · 10 negative · 3 mixed · 1 neutral
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It's smooth, has fairly impressive voice-acting, and nothing but the generic fetch and kill quests seem lacking.
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the voice acting is always on point and the tone of voices are believable although there arent many expressions witch can make you feel less immersed theres literaly a smile a point finger and a sad expression and thats it.
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The MAIN characters you meet along the way are also quite good, and (for the most part) their voice-acting is well done too.
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replayability
25 positive · 6 negative · 1 mixed · 0 neutral
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Highly enjoyable, fun gameplay, good story, quite a bit of customization and seemingly great deal of replayability.
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- Replayability
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ill probally play it at least twice, 1 for fun and 1 at the lowest level possible
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addictiveness
29 positive · 0 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral
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Really addictive.
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overall I would give this game an 8/10 becuase this game would be even better with multiplayer but it still has the addictiveness of an mmo its just a general gret game
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Do not recommend if you have a life. I'm 80hrs in and I'm maybe 3/4 of the way through?
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exploration
24 positive · 2 negative · 1 mixed · 1 neutral
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The combat is fluid, the world exploring is fun.
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theres also an ability called detect hidden which lets you find hidden doungens and chests that have loot inside them.
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Many hours can be spent simply exploring, and honing your battle skills whilst doing so.
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ui
7 positive · 19 negative · 2 mixed · 0 neutral
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awesome game I look forward to many hours of play time, only problem I would love to see fixed is the default screen size, there should be a way to allow the player to pick what screen size they use for it.
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The default and only FOV is 45 and the camera is positioned behind your character's knees.
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The only thing I had to nitpick was like every other RPGs (looking at you TES games) inventory management is a ♥♥♥♥♥.
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developer conduct
3 positive · 22 negative · 0 mixed · 1 neutral
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the company over-hyped the whole game idea and concept.
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A shame that the company went down, because sells did not meet their expectations.
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EA sucks.
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music
16 positive · 6 negative · 4 mixed · 0 neutral
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Music is great, dialog and stories are engaging, combat is interesting.
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At times I just had to take a moment to appreciate how great the music accompanied the current setting, or how it subtly dropped off as you reached your location, as if it was perfectly timed (or was it?
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Great soundtrack.
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player choice
18 positive · 7 negative · 1 mixed · 0 neutral
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Since you’re basically built different, every choice you make rewrites fate, and you can speedrun different classes—warrior, rogue, mage—whatever fits your mood.
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- Tangible consequential decision-making (saving or killing NPC's for example)
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It really feels like you are your own character, by the choices you make.
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writing
12 positive · 14 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral
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Sub-Par Scripts/Dialogues (Not always, but worth mentioning)
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the graphics are nice and the combat's okay but the writing never really comes together in a way that's really frustrating.
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Bright colors, stupid writing, roughly as difficult as falling asleep when very tired.
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pacing
1 positive · 21 negative · 1 mixed · 0 neutral
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), there are far too many meaningles and trivial 'fetch' sidequests, and the story really drags.
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This wouldn't be too bad if the game wasn't excessively repetitive, even by RPG standards.
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But somehow, I feel bored during the midgame untill the endgame and I can't figure it why.
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animation
13 positive · 6 negative · 1 mixed · 0 neutral
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10/10 on animation
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The class/combat variety is wonderfully done, and the effects animations are right in line.
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(Personally, I think it's beautiful, and has grrrreat animation quality.
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atmosphere
13 positive · 5 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral
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All in all this is a great game for time killing and its quite immersive, once you get past its bugs that will never be fixed though dont really interfere with anything, its camera, its drop system.
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I love the classic fantasy feel when i step in to diferent maps.
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Wonderful areas with beautiful details and magical atmosphere.
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ai behavior
3 positive · 9 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral
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Enemies are generally dumb or cheesy.
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Then we have a lot of lazy made quests, boring items, very bad AI and stupid ♥♥♥♥ that just looks.
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The majority of the moves and abilities are useless, the stealth system sucks, and walking through an area will pull every mob in the entire zone.
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performance
9 positive · 2 negative · 0 mixed · 1 neutral
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The framerate is smooth, the graphics are nice and the combat is fun.
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It's a well optimized game that will run well on most low-medium computers, so there are no worries there!
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good performances good ai good fighting scenes good story well designed weapon and armor set.
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platform access
1 positive · 8 negative · 1 mixed · 0 neutral
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-You need and EA account to login to the game
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but unless you have an old 360 controller and an older version of windows DO NOT BUY IT.
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Just wanted to play single player and offline and yet needed to jump through EA hoops to make an online account for a game on Steam.
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stability
2 positive · 8 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral
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I really like this game, however, it doesn't run more than 15 minutes without crashing.
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crashes every 30 minutes
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There are some minor issues that would have likely been patched - such as the game crashing if too many items are put into or taken out of your loot chest too quickly.
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learning curve
6 positive · 3 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral
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It's like Skyrim but slightly simpler to play and the fighting is actualy action oriented in that you have to use moves and combination moves to fight and beat your foes.
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Additionally, it's a game that I feel that anyone (casual or hardcore gamer) could pick up and enjoy with ease.
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Light Skyrim, very easy to get and fun to play.
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sound design
3 positive · 4 negative · 1 mixed · 0 neutral
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It struggles on windows 10 and for some strange reason having an Xbox One controller plugged into your PC will make the audio scratchy or cut out entirely.
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There are moments in the game where sound on weapons just cuts out completely, and the only thing you can hear are the after-effects of slicing at something or casting a spell.
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(Also I would like to add that the jumping out spiders almost made me ♥♥♥♥ myself a few times, because that freaking noise is just really over the top when you are concentrating on something else.
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mods
4 positive · 2 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral
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use fxaa and wide screen fixer mods and it will look great!
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hope to see some mods added to this game to futher the play time with it.
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It's only serious drawback is its lack of difficulty, which can be corrected using a widely-available mod.
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multiplayer
0 positive · 6 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral
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I give this game a 9/10 ONLY because it doesn't have online co-op.
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-Too bad it doesn't have multiplayer so you can play with friends
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Where is co-op?
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updates
0 positive · 6 negative · 0 mixed · 0 neutral
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not a perfect 10 on account of the bad title and this game will not be receiving any updates I'd imagine.
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Apparently even in 2012 this bug was going to get a fix. But it didn't. I'm writing this review FIVE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ YEARS LATER!
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Don't expect an expansion, more DLC, or even more patches. I feel that $30 is a bit steep but at half off I can definitely say give it a try.
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Emergent themes unvalidated
topics reviewers bring up that are not on the validated list; raw counts only, no error bars
- camera 26
- crafting 12
- grind 8
- loot 5
Review timeline
monthly peak 703 reviews · all languages
monthly share rated positive · 50% reference · months with <5 reviews faded
the timeline as a table
| month | reviews | up | down | positive | note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2012 | 96 | 94 | 2 | 98% | |
| Mar 2012 | 40 | 39 | 1 | 98% | |
| Apr 2012 | 16 | 16 | 0 | 100% | |
| May 2012 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 100% | |
| Jun 2012 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 100% | |
| Jul 2012 | 26 | 26 | 0 | 100% | |
| Aug 2012 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 100% | |
| Sep 2012 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 100% | small sample |
| Oct 2012 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 100% | |
| Nov 2012 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 100% | |
| Dec 2012 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 89% | |
| Jan 2013 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 100% | |
| Feb 2013 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 100% | |
| Mar 2013 | 26 | 25 | 1 | 96% | |
| Apr 2013 | 19 | 19 | 0 | 100% | |
| May 2013 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 100% | |
| Jun 2013 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 100% | |
| Jul 2013 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 89% | |
| Aug 2013 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 100% | |
| Sep 2013 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 100% | |
| Oct 2013 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 100% | |
| Nov 2013 | 22 | 18 | 4 | 82% | |
| Dec 2013 | 51 | 44 | 7 | 86% | |
| Jan 2014 | 153 | 144 | 9 | 94% | |
| Feb 2014 | 703 | 623 | 80 | 89% | |
| Mar 2014 | 143 | 129 | 14 | 90% | |
| Apr 2014 | 409 | 360 | 49 | 88% | |
| May 2014 | 181 | 165 | 16 | 91% | |
| Jun 2014 | 486 | 422 | 64 | 87% | |
| Jul 2014 | 205 | 182 | 23 | 89% | |
| Aug 2014 | 100 | 89 | 11 | 89% | |
| Sep 2014 | 472 | 406 | 66 | 86% | |
| Oct 2014 | 163 | 143 | 20 | 88% | |
| Nov 2014 | 191 | 162 | 29 | 85% | |
| Dec 2014 | 206 | 163 | 43 | 79% | |
| Jan 2015 | 132 | 116 | 16 | 88% | |
| Feb 2015 | 94 | 87 | 7 | 93% | |
| Mar 2015 | 62 | 52 | 10 | 84% | |
| Apr 2015 | 86 | 78 | 8 | 91% | |
| May 2015 | 152 | 135 | 17 | 89% | |
| Jun 2015 | 142 | 121 | 21 | 85% | |
| Jul 2015 | 69 | 57 | 12 | 83% | |
| Aug 2015 | 69 | 64 | 5 | 93% | |
| Sep 2015 | 52 | 41 | 11 | 79% | |
| Oct 2015 | 65 | 54 | 11 | 83% | |
| Nov 2015 | 57 | 55 | 2 | 96% | |
| Dec 2015 | 131 | 109 | 22 | 83% | |
| Jan 2016 | 104 | 89 | 15 | 86% | |
| Feb 2016 | 86 | 73 | 13 | 85% | |
| Mar 2016 | 77 | 66 | 11 | 86% | |
| Apr 2016 | 45 | 41 | 4 | 91% | |
| May 2016 | 56 | 48 | 8 | 86% | |
| Jun 2016 | 88 | 79 | 9 | 90% | |
| Jul 2016 | 112 | 97 | 15 | 87% | |
| Aug 2016 | 109 | 99 | 10 | 91% | |
| Sep 2016 | 100 | 85 | 15 | 85% | |
| Oct 2016 | 52 | 44 | 8 | 85% | |
| Nov 2016 | 250 | 241 | 9 | 96% | |
| Dec 2016 | 102 | 83 | 19 | 81% | |
| Jan 2017 | 96 | 78 | 18 | 81% | |
| Feb 2017 | 156 | 128 | 28 | 82% | |
| Mar 2017 | 81 | 73 | 8 | 90% | |
| Apr 2017 | 69 | 62 | 7 | 90% | |
| May 2017 | 73 | 65 | 8 | 89% | |
| Jun 2017 | 107 | 92 | 15 | 86% | |
| Jul 2017 | 135 | 117 | 18 | 87% | |
| Aug 2017 | 251 | 217 | 34 | 86% | |
| Sep 2017 | 77 | 64 | 13 | 83% | |
| Oct 2017 | 77 | 64 | 13 | 83% | |
| Nov 2017 | 262 | 241 | 21 | 92% | |
| Dec 2017 | 88 | 68 | 20 | 77% | |
| Jan 2018 | 100 | 89 | 11 | 89% | |
| Feb 2018 | 143 | 108 | 35 | 76% | |
| Mar 2018 | 70 | 59 | 11 | 84% | |
| Apr 2018 | 58 | 43 | 15 | 74% | |
| May 2018 | 58 | 50 | 8 | 86% | |
| Jun 2018 | 73 | 66 | 7 | 90% | |
| Jul 2018 | 75 | 68 | 7 | 91% | |
| Aug 2018 | 55 | 48 | 7 | 87% | |
| Sep 2018 | 49 | 38 | 11 | 78% | |
| Oct 2018 | 47 | 39 | 8 | 83% | |
| Nov 2018 | 122 | 108 | 14 | 89% | |
| Dec 2018 | 78 | 65 | 13 | 83% | |
| Jan 2019 | 68 | 58 | 10 | 85% | |
| Feb 2019 | 52 | 45 | 7 | 87% | |
| Mar 2019 | 41 | 34 | 7 | 83% | |
| Apr 2019 | 43 | 38 | 5 | 88% | |
| May 2019 | 45 | 39 | 6 | 87% | |
| Jun 2019 | 198 | 188 | 10 | 95% | |
| Jul 2019 | 204 | 193 | 11 | 95% | |
| Aug 2019 | 123 | 101 | 22 | 82% | |
| Sep 2019 | 51 | 39 | 12 | 76% | |
| Oct 2019 | 45 | 41 | 4 | 91% | |
| Nov 2019 | 216 | 203 | 13 | 94% | |
| Dec 2019 | 223 | 211 | 12 | 95% | |
| Jan 2020 | 187 | 174 | 13 | 93% | |
| Feb 2020 | 116 | 106 | 10 | 91% | |
| Mar 2020 | 146 | 132 | 14 | 90% | |
| Apr 2020 | 157 | 138 | 19 | 88% | |
| May 2020 | 135 | 124 | 11 | 92% | |
| Jun 2020 | 119 | 107 | 12 | 90% | |
| Jul 2020 | 138 | 128 | 10 | 93% | |
| Aug 2020 | 97 | 88 | 9 | 91% | |
| Sep 2020 | 128 | 104 | 24 | 81% | |
| Oct 2020 | 42 | 38 | 4 | 90% | |
| Nov 2020 | 58 | 53 | 5 | 91% | |
| Dec 2020 | 49 | 46 | 3 | 94% | |
| Jan 2021 | 69 | 54 | 15 | 78% | |
| Feb 2021 | 38 | 33 | 5 | 87% | |
| Mar 2021 | 43 | 40 | 3 | 93% | |
| Apr 2021 | 37 | 33 | 4 | 89% | |
| May 2021 | 28 | 21 | 7 | 75% | |
| Jun 2021 | 36 | 29 | 7 | 81% | |
| Jul 2021 | 31 | 26 | 5 | 84% | |
| Aug 2021 | 16 | 16 | 0 | 100% | |
| Sep 2021 | 29 | 28 | 1 | 97% | |
| Oct 2021 | 27 | 21 | 6 | 78% | |
| Nov 2021 | 32 | 30 | 2 | 94% | |
| Dec 2021 | 19 | 13 | 6 | 68% | |
| Jan 2022 | 34 | 24 | 10 | 71% | |
| Feb 2022 | 20 | 16 | 4 | 80% | |
| Mar 2022 | 24 | 14 | 10 | 58% | |
| Apr 2022 | 18 | 15 | 3 | 83% | |
| May 2022 | 16 | 14 | 2 | 88% | |
| Jun 2022 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 100% | |
| Jul 2022 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 62% | |
| Aug 2022 | 21 | 17 | 4 | 81% | |
| Sep 2022 | 16 | 12 | 4 | 75% | |
| Oct 2022 | 18 | 17 | 1 | 94% | |
| Nov 2022 | 16 | 14 | 2 | 88% | |
| Dec 2022 | 19 | 16 | 3 | 84% | |
| Jan 2023 | 21 | 18 | 3 | 86% | |
| Feb 2023 | 18 | 14 | 4 | 78% | |
| Mar 2023 | 16 | 12 | 4 | 75% | |
| Apr 2023 | 18 | 12 | 6 | 67% | |
| May 2023 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 67% | |
| Jun 2023 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 85% | |
| Jul 2023 | 20 | 16 | 4 | 80% | |
| Aug 2023 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 62% | |
| Sep 2023 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 60% | |
| Oct 2023 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 92% | |
| Nov 2023 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 77% | |
| Dec 2023 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 100% | |
| Jan 2024 | 19 | 15 | 4 | 79% | |
| Feb 2024 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 77% | |
| Mar 2024 | 17 | 11 | 6 | 65% | |
| Apr 2024 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 64% | |
| May 2024 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 100% | |
| Jun 2024 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 90% | |
| Jul 2024 | 16 | 11 | 5 | 69% | |
| Aug 2024 | 19 | 14 | 5 | 74% | |
| Sep 2024 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 88% | |
| Oct 2024 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 89% | |
| Nov 2024 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 89% | |
| Dec 2024 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 75% | |
| Jan 2025 | 17 | 15 | 2 | 88% | |
| Feb 2025 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 88% | |
| Mar 2025 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 69% | |
| Apr 2025 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 100% | |
| May 2025 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 50% | |
| Jun 2025 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 67% | |
| Jul 2025 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 100% | small sample |
| Aug 2025 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 100% | |
| Sep 2025 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 69% | |
| Oct 2025 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 100% | |
| Nov 2025 | 16 | 13 | 3 | 81% | |
| Dec 2025 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 86% | |
| Jan 2026 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 50% | |
| Feb 2026 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 85% | |
| Mar 2026 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 100% | |
| Apr 2026 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 73% | |
| May 2026 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 77% | |
| Jun 2026 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 90% | |
| Jul 2026 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 80% | |
| Aug 2026 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 78% | |
| Sep 2026 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 75% | small sample |
How this report was made
- Population
- all Steam reviews of the game (every language, purchase type, and verdict), walked newest-first per window; only English-language reviews are analyzed
- Sample
- 672 English reviews, time-proportional draw over 165 windows (newest-first within each), taken from an all-language walk and kept English-only — where English is a minority the sample runs smaller than the draw, and every margin of error is computed at 672
- Aspect yield
- 489 of 672 analyzed reviews carry at least one aspect (72.8%); every share on this page divides by all 672
- Interval regime
- calm: standard margins of error for a share of a sample (Wilson interval), no widening needed
- Fetch paths
- 165 time windows fetched directly (windowed)
- Language mix
- 1,000 fetched: english 675 · german 59 · russian 56 · 21 more
- Steam-marked windows
- none flagged by Steam (Valve's off-topic flagging began March 2019)
- Marked share
- 0.0% of sample inside marked windows, under the 2% floor
- Narrative
- passed the grounding gate first try
- Evidence floor
- aspects and emergent themes appear only with 5+ supporting reviews; smaller counts sit at the classifier's false-positive floor
- Instrument readings
- measured once on the study corpus for this model and prompt: frozen calibration, not properties of this run
- · aspect tagging vs. human labels
- 0.801 [0.752–0.844] (F1 against a human-labeled test set; 1.0 is best)
- · quotes filed under the wrong aspect
- 11.6% [6.6–19.6] of quotes, measured by hand on a sample; lower is better — measured on the prior model (2026-08-05); re-measurement pending
- · independent model vs. production labels
- 0.791 [0.772–0.810] (F1 of the production labeler against an independent judge model) — measured on the prior model (2026-07-25); re-measurement pending
- Versions
- deepseek-flash · prompt classify-v1 · ontology v2
- Run
- serve-20260924T233023Z-e955f45d · code 4716568
full methodology in the milestone write-ups