- Publisher: THQ Nordic
- Release Date: Jun 5, 2026
- Also On: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X
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Jun 5, 2026Gothic Remake’s foundations are strong because Alkimia chose to protect the parts that made the original special: the punishing freedom, the hand built world, and the sense that you have to earn your place. As of now, my stance is that a newcomer with no nostalgia for the series and no patience for jankiness may well bounce right off it. If you loved old Gothic, every instinct here points toward something made by people who get it. [Review in Progress]
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Jun 22, 2026It's difficult, in a word, to review Gothic Remake without falling into all the same gushing about the original, but vastly prettier and with countless small, but cumulatively powerful improvements. It even has a speck of jankiness that's funny often enough to outweigh the times it's irritating. Gothic was a standard setter for its genre even decades on, and now it's the same too for the very concept of a remake. Sometimes, just sometimes, looking backwards really is the way forward.