Achilles: Legends Untold

If we weren't going through a period where Game of the Year nominations are being throwed at us in bulk, I'd say give it a chance, but I'm sure there are other games you should be playing.

It’s fun to kill a few hours and hack your way through the underworld but it is hardly something I will return to.

In very few words, Achilles: Legends Untold is a (very) low budget version of Diablo 4. Any class system is absent, the enemy variety is seriously lacking, the upgrade system is quite derivative and the combat system changes from tactical to pure button mashing half-way through. Nevertheless, it maintains enough pleasant non-stop and easy going action that it could very well qualify as a "guilty pleasure" game.

Achilles: Legends Untold is a flat and all too easy action game. The entire adventure is basically one long wave of enemies that are sent at us or against whom we are sent. We run around, killing everything again and again while the plot goes on without a flourish. The whole package lacks variety and originality. Even the subject, Ancient Greece, is used superficially.

Achilles: Legends Untold is an absolutely good game. It has a very interesting idea, and ideas nowadays are valued even more than the quality of the product itself, the game has a good leveling system, and battles can (albeit rarely) be a real pleasure (yes, I'm talking about cutting through a crowd of skeletons). But it needs a lot of polishing, and I'm not talking in technical terms, but in gameplay terms

In a field crowded with competitors, Achilles: Legends Untold does everything it can to set itself apart from the pack. A story setting that hasn’t been explored as much in the isometric combat arena, a fighting system that flows very smoothly using whichever weapon a player wants, and large areas to explore and fight in. A large skill tree adds complexity as well, and there isn’t much to complain about in the looks department. It will need all of this and more to go up against the big names of the genre, but this scrappy action RPG fighter has a bigger punch than most players will be expecting.

Achilles: Legends Untold is a good mix between RPGs with hack and slash action like Diablo and souls-likes in which every checkpoint is an achievement. The wide range of weapons, each with unique characteristics and combat styles, invite experimentation even to just see the animations of the protagonist as he crushes, kills and rips apart enemies. The story set in Greek mythology could only be interesting, and the fights are fun, even if some enemies appear out of the blue due to the absence of zoom. There are no classes - Achilles is Achilles! - but quite different builds can be created.

A pleasant surprise. It's not usual action RPG, it's a nice fusion of two genres that we could briefly describe as Diablo with Souls elements. It works, it's fun, it has style.

Achilles: Legends Untold is a serviceable indie Soulslike experience with an isometric camera angle that doesn’t introduce anything revolutionary. Don’t be fooled by the Diablo-esque visual style either, because this is not a dungeon crawling looter. There’s no doubt that the game is in a much better state than it was in Early Access, but it still suffers from some core issues with its gameplay mechanics.