Death's Gambit

 PC
Metascore
71

Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. Vandal
    Aug 20, 2018
    85
    If you like exploring, fighting and challenges in a medieval setting, this is your game. You can tell it's a humble project with a tight budget behind it, but the results are very good.
  2. GameCrate
    Aug 21, 2018
    83
    Death’s Gambit wholly embraces the Dark Souls way of giving players just enough leeway to barely survive against unrelenting adversity, for good and ill. A compelling story, smooth and frantic melee combat, and a robustly grim 2D world come together to form a game that’s wholly unafraid to embrace the Souls-like moniker.
  3. Eurogamer Italy
    Sep 23, 2018
    80
    Death's Gambit is only a souls-like? At first glance the answer is definitely yes but it is also a lot more. White Rabbit manage to create a great but nevertheless fragile game which despite the flaws and the lapse of taste in some situations deserves your attention.
  5. GameCritics
    Aug 21, 2018
    80
    That Death’s Gambit is beautiful and rewarding enough to be worth the struggle is what makes it a more successful homage to Dark Souls than most. It’s not the most creative game, but that doesn’t matter when so few developers are capable of pulling this kind of trick off.
  6. 3DJuegos
    Aug 20, 2018
    80
    Death's Gambit has potential and an impressive visual style, but an unpolished control scheme and combat tends to make things a bit uncomfortable in some occasions. There's potential with room to improvement.
  7. Gamersky
    Sep 12, 2018
    79
    Death's Gambit is a decent soul-like 2D ARPG, and it has a strong art style, interesting story, and various gameplay.
  8. GamingTrend
    Aug 28, 2018
    75
    Death's Gambit is buggy, unpolished, frustrating, and derivative. At the same time, it features some interesting bosses and unexpected storytelling tricks. It's sure to be a divisive game, but you may be won over by the atmosphere its fantastic art, music, and voice acting create, if you can overlook its flaws.
  9. Wccftech
    Aug 22, 2018
    75
    With its enjoyable story, melancholic atmosphere, competent gameplay and outstanding soundtrack, Death's Gambit is an enjoyable take on the Dark Souls series formula. Some flaws, such as floaty movement, weird hitboxes on select weapon types, and some mediocre bosses, however, prevent the game from being a masterpiece.
  10. Everyeye.it
    Aug 19, 2018
    75
    It remains a challenging game, with some unexpected and surprising jolts, and a good background quality. If the team had applied more we would have had a worthy "rival" of Salt & Sanctuary, while at the moment the product of Ska Studio surpasses this Death's Gambit at every level.

Awards & Rankings

47
#47 Most Shared PC Game of 2018

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User Score
7.3

Mixed or average reviews- based on 83 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 50 out of 83
  2. Mixed: 21 out of 83
  3. Negative: 12 out of 83
  1. Trevor9000
    Aug 14, 2018
    10
    Such a surprising title. I Iove the game and the genre. I bought this randomly and have to say it was money well spent. Fun and verySuch a surprising title. I Iove the game and the genre. I bought this randomly and have to say it was money well spent. Fun and very challenging game. I recently saw a review about the game being to hard. All I have to say is "Git Gud"… Full Review »
  2. BathSaltZombii
    Aug 14, 2018
    10
    No Surprise another negative review from LifeHistory who is once again wrong. The reviewer even gave Nioh an unwarranted low review. Let meNo Surprise another negative review from LifeHistory who is once again wrong. The reviewer even gave Nioh an unwarranted low review. Let me just say this game is great and one of the best games I have played this year. Seems like Lifehistory only enjoyed the souls series games because they had other people come into the game and beat the bosses for them.… Full Review »
  3. Izitmee
    Aug 17, 2018
    4
    Full of bugs, awkward design decisions, invisible platforms, patched-up graphics, ice skating, clumsy controls, a rather misplaced story and aFull of bugs, awkward design decisions, invisible platforms, patched-up graphics, ice skating, clumsy controls, a rather misplaced story and a little too much Dark Souls not to feel like a 2D copy instead of an original game. Add to this a rather impressive lack of polish (audio volumes are all over the place, keyboard customization is lost when you restart, the game forces you to play with your system's language with no option to change/reset it, the whole game is frame based so if you play at 120 FPS it will run at 2x speed, and on and on) and it quickly becomes an annoying experience ready to be uninstalled.… Full Review »
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