Evil Islands: Curse of the Lost Soul

 PC
User Score
8.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 80 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 63 out of 80
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 80
  3. Negative: 9 out of 80
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  1. Abd_el_hazred
    Sep 25, 2017
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Story and voice acting are utterly pathetic. The gameplay was enough fun for me to complete the whole game spending some reasonably fun hours though. The end of the game was easily the worst I have ever seen. After some tedious sneaking in the last stage and a potentially unavoidable deadly trap (If you did not level your mana high enough, you weren't able to use the teleport spell to get past the trap) came the boss fight.This "fight" took about 5 seconds and was fought out between some NPC and the boss. You didn't really have to do anything and just hope your dude wins. The fight is followed by a very short and very inconclusive cutscene and boom game is finished.… Expand

Awards & Rankings

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#81 Best PC Game of 2001
64
#64 Most Discussed PC Game of 2001

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Metascore
74

Mixed or average reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 17
  3. Negative: 1 out of 17
  1. Games Radar
    50
    Will you want to spend over 100 hours, crawling here, there and everywhere to get into in it? That's the question. A lot of you aren't, for Evil Islands doesn't stand out either as a great genuine strategy or as a bonkers RPG.
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  2. Computer Games Magazine
    40
    In the end, the thing you remember most isn't the graphics engine, the nifty spell and item construction, or even the awful voice acting; it's the frustration of slogging through a poorly balanced game that substitutes saving and reloading for gameplay.
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  3. Electric Playground
    80
    While not quite as big as "Baldur's Gate II," this game is considerably large, totalling about 100 hours of the single-player gameplay.
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