GreedFall

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7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 578 Ratings

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  1. Avva
    Sep 14, 2019
    8
    Good RPG. Very Spiders-like, but better - if you know their games you know what I mean the progress is obvious from game to game. Very good story, excellent VA, nice music, interesting combat (for some - questionable, but unlike typical Spiders' combat not over-hard). A bit pricey fir the company level, but if you like Spiders' games - worth it.
  2. Roy1102
    Sep 13, 2019
    9
    Unique setting is surprisingly fun the story is not a 10/10 but is good enough . No technical issues (bugs - glitches - etc) this is a big plus for me
  3. Mihawkii
    Sep 9, 2019
    10
    Very good writing and atmosphere. The only cons are the animations, but the atmosphere and writing completely make you forgot about it.
  4. PuppetOfFate
    Sep 9, 2019
    10
    I'll update this when I get further but so far, it runs amazing and looks even better. The facial animations are a little off but personally unless it gets to ME:A levels, they aren't bad and they never get that far. EXTREMELY well optimized too. All highest levels and streaming and my CPU and GPU never went above 40% which is fantastic.
  5. FlyingPenguins
    Sep 9, 2019
    10
    Not even out yet, and without full playthrough shouldn't be any negative. Why hurt a game before it even has a chance, pointless and just ruins the industry.
  6. lynchu
    Sep 14, 2019
    0
    Cheap boring game with autistic mechanics very good for back tracking fans it is better to go sleep than play this overrated game
  7. ukrScorpion
    Sep 11, 2019
    9
    Good game! This is exactly what I expected.
    The game is in spirit close to the Dragon Age, Neverwinter Nights 2 and the first mass effect.
    I read, authors they were inspired world-classic "princess mononoke" and it is very noticeable. Yes, the game is visible lack of funding and problem with animation and a variety of NPC models But these problems have and first Witcher which has    Good game! This is exactly what I expected.
    The game is in spirit close to the Dragon Age, Neverwinter Nights 2 and the first mass effect.
    I read, authors they were inspired world-classic "princess mononoke" and it is very noticeable.
    Yes, the game is visible lack of funding and problem with animation and a variety of NPC models
    But these problems have and first Witcher which has become a classic.
    Thanks Spiders studio for that game and good luck to developers!    … Expand
  8. HayvenMoses
    Sep 9, 2019
    9
    So far I've played about an hour and it feels,looks and plays amazing.Finally an RPG woth good combat.
  9. Gabe807
    Sep 16, 2019
    10
    Solid game. I love it. For all the reviews saying that its pretty much an average rpg, it's TRUE. But in a good way.
  10. khauul33
    Sep 27, 2019
    10
    For a small studio they did a good job on the game. Would have like to see a new game plus but, overall it's a solid game. The game is similar to Mass effect and The witcher. Build a relationship with your team is up to the players and it does have an effect on what events play out. There are some bugs but, are mostly funny to see. Hopefully the studio will do an update to fix someFor a small studio they did a good job on the game. Would have like to see a new game plus but, overall it's a solid game. The game is similar to Mass effect and The witcher. Build a relationship with your team is up to the players and it does have an effect on what events play out. There are some bugs but, are mostly funny to see. Hopefully the studio will do an update to fix some problems and maybe add some more content or make another Greedfall later down the road.… Expand
  11. Toteq
    Sep 22, 2019
    10
    Best action RPG 2019. Very good plot, dialogues, companions, quests and combat
  12. IsleyAbysal
    Sep 26, 2019
    9
    This game is one of the hidden gems of recent years. The graphic style is gorgeous, quests have some interesting twist and turns, the combat feels fresh with the balance and armour mechanics.
    Overall the game has a Witcher 1 feeling of being good and potential to have great future installments.
  13. StatikXaj
    Oct 3, 2019
    5
    Для любителей убить время игра прекрасно зайдёт. В игре множество уголков и интересная атмосфера. Но если объективно, то все квесты шаблонные, диалоги унылые и долгие. Интерфейсно непонятно сколько времени, а задания требуют это время. Непонятно сколько вложил очков в репутацию каждой из организаций, или персонажа. Все мобы одинаковые и ИИ их отвратительно тупое. Коллизии на предметыДля любителей убить время игра прекрасно зайдёт. В игре множество уголков и интересная атмосфера. Но если объективно, то все квесты шаблонные, диалоги унылые и долгие. Интерфейсно непонятно сколько времени, а задания требуют это время. Непонятно сколько вложил очков в репутацию каждой из организаций, или персонажа. Все мобы одинаковые и ИИ их отвратительно тупое. Коллизии на предметы раскидывали просто тяп-ляп, в связи с чем, либо ты застреваешь просто на каждом лепестке, либо мобы не могут обойти столб. Сюжет откровенное гов*о. Весь сюжет тезисно уложится на лист формата А4. И даже прекрасный подход к племенам на острове подошли халтурно, выдав всем одинаковые лица, одежду, дома, манеры и задания. Только Боссы вытянули игру на 5.0. Точнее не сами боссы (механика), а визуальное исполнение. тут художникам респект!… Expand
  14. BlkSpcMirror
    Nov 6, 2019
    10
    I bought the game for PC after waiting for it to be released, bought the only merchandise I could find - a Gildan t-shirt - off of Etsy to show support. Twitch didn't seem to capture much attention for a game so passionately made. Yet, Greedfall is one of those games that deserves a sequel as well as a permanent place in the heart of RPG/holiday nostalgia. Skyrim, Broken Fang Cave, andI bought the game for PC after waiting for it to be released, bought the only merchandise I could find - a Gildan t-shirt - off of Etsy to show support. Twitch didn't seem to capture much attention for a game so passionately made. Yet, Greedfall is one of those games that deserves a sequel as well as a permanent place in the heart of RPG/holiday nostalgia. Skyrim, Broken Fang Cave, and running around as a lizard was fun; but, Greedfall was super meticulous with accessorizing. Athiests, Agnostics, Buddhists, Catholics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, and Pagan's can enjoy this RPG. I think there is good representation of lgbtqia+ in Greedfall that doesn't take away from the mainstory but compliments the aestetics of the graphics. There were a few glitches, like a character's chin going through his collar and a character floating above a chair and table. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the decision making algorithm amd at times reloaded a saved section to see if a decision could change an outcome. I won't spoil the ending. I am of the belief that Greedfall could restore the characteristics of helpfulness and bravery in society.… Expand
  15. jpnole
    Sep 12, 2019
    10
    Don't believe the negative spam reviews. Fantastic game which is a huge leap from Technomancer.
  16. jureg98
    Sep 10, 2019
    9
    Greedfall was exactly what I expected from a AA game, sure It is not as polished as say The Witcher 3 but you can see that the developers really poured heart and soul into the making of this game. While it does have its shortcomings such as: horrible facial animations, sometimes dumb companion AI and graphics that aren't the prettiest looking( in my opinion), the games setting and storyGreedfall was exactly what I expected from a AA game, sure It is not as polished as say The Witcher 3 but you can see that the developers really poured heart and soul into the making of this game. While it does have its shortcomings such as: horrible facial animations, sometimes dumb companion AI and graphics that aren't the prettiest looking( in my opinion), the games setting and story makes up for it by always pulling me back in to see the conclusion of this epic tale. I recommend this game to anyone who is looking for a good RPG game!… Expand
  17. whyteian
    Sep 14, 2019
    10
    I am enjoying this game. For my first run through, I chose magic and it is so much fun. The graphics are superb, although the setting to begin is quite dark. I think Spiders has created a really good RPG here and with some tweaking it will be amongst my top games.
  18. Imperius147
    Sep 10, 2019
    7
    Pro:
    -storytelling
    -gameplay
    -unique universe atmosphere
    -spirit of Dragon Age- inqisition,Witcher and Mass Effect
    -graphic
    -no denuvo

    Cons:
    -sometimes AI companions
    -terrible ,really terrible face animations.its 2019 not 2009
  19. ItGeraltOfRivia
    Sep 10, 2019
    9
    Для начала нужно понимать что игра не ААА класса и не с большим бюджетом. В целом графика-норм, боёвка-сойдет, костомизация-норм, квесты довольно не плохие. Любителям рпг можно и на старте брать, остальным разве что по скидону, изначально хотел 8 поставить, но с учётом что в последнее время очень мало рпг выходит решил докинуть еще 1 балл.Для начала нужно понимать что игра не ААА класса и не с большим бюджетом. В целом графика-норм, боёвка-сойдет, костомизация-норм, квесты довольно не плохие. Любителям рпг можно и на старте брать, остальным разве что по скидону, изначально хотел 8 поставить, но с учётом что в последнее время очень мало рпг выходит решил докинуть еще 1 балл.
  20. Nihenna
    Sep 10, 2019
    9
    Spiders have finally pulled themselves out of mediocrity. The game still has flaws, but it's far from the mediocrity you would find in Bound by Flame and The Technomancer (which were still quite fun, may I add).

    Finally they fixed my biggest problem with past titles; humongous health bars and not being able to stagger the enemies. I can recommend this game, especially in this current    Spiders have finally pulled themselves out of mediocrity. The game still has flaws, but it's far from the mediocrity you would find in Bound by Flame and The Technomancer (which were still quite fun, may I add).

    Finally they fixed my biggest problem with past titles; humongous health bars and not being able to stagger the enemies. I can recommend this game, especially in this current RPG drought.    … Expand
  21. ThePushps
    Sep 10, 2019
    10
    This game is great. Reminds me of dragon age origins which is still one of the best rpgs till date. Also it is the game bioware should've made as DA2 and DAI. Great job spiders.
  22. KikujiroDM
    Sep 9, 2019
    3
    Mediocre animation, boring quests, graphics level of 2010... Passing game.
  23. Syrona7
    Sep 10, 2019
    6
    Played it for like 20 minutes and decided that I can't be bothered with how complicated and clunky combat is. Well that on top of how average the game is, because I would have put up with the crappy combat controls on PC if the game was blowing me away.

    Perhaps the experience is better with a controller but I'm a PC pleb who isn't using one nor intends to.
  24. Tidytib
    Sep 10, 2019
    8
    If you can ignore the face animation and lip sync then this is a wonderful game.combat is solid.
  25. SloppyDave
    Nov 9, 2019
    8
    Obsidian made a wonderful game. It's like Fallout 3 but in space! Very good story
    Wonderful level design
    Maybe i wanted more quests (a lot more actually) but that's ok :)
  26. daftshadow
    Sep 10, 2019
    7
    If you enjoyed playing games like Gothic, Risen, and ELEX, then you might like this game as well. Despite the weird lip-syncing voice over, I find the game playable so far and I would give a 7/10. I've put in about 3 hours, doing as much as I can in the beginning area including all the side-quests (harbour). As far as performance goes, it is quite actually really well optimized.
  27. Trypsinogen
    Sep 30, 2019
    7
    It's like a Victorian era fantasy Witcher or Dragon Age game but it doesn't manage to do anything particularly well and it does a lot poorly. I would love to love it, because I wish there were more games like this made, but alas I just can't bring myself to. At best, it's wholly mediocre overall. They didn't have a large budget AND THEY MANAGE TO MAKE THIS EXTREMELY OBVIOUS. Some of theirIt's like a Victorian era fantasy Witcher or Dragon Age game but it doesn't manage to do anything particularly well and it does a lot poorly. I would love to love it, because I wish there were more games like this made, but alas I just can't bring myself to. At best, it's wholly mediocre overall. They didn't have a large budget AND THEY MANAGE TO MAKE THIS EXTREMELY OBVIOUS. Some of their failings though can not be attributed to a small budget but just to bad design and poor execution. Terrible animations, bland combat (a lot of it is just M1 spam), boring/uninteresting loot, humdrum uncompelling world and narrative which railroads you for the most part with few to no interesting choices to make. The entire game world looks mostly the same with many overly reused assets (almost as bad as the attrocities commited by Dragon Age 2), there is very little enemy diversity, and quests can be quite tedious with a lot of running back and forth.

    The only one strong point I can think of is that a lot of the voice acting is quite well done (with a strong exception in the companion Siora) - but this just makes it even more tragic that everything they're saying is trash in terms of quality story telling. The content of what they're actually saying is mostly a snorefest, but at least they sound good saying it (and it's too bad their character models' mouths and expressions don't match at all either).    … Expand
  28. ignore78
    Sep 18, 2019
    6
    Amazing graphics! Horrid controls! Could not care about the story. This is a no for me.
  29. p1menta
    Oct 22, 2019
    6
    I need to play anotherRPG to check if i'm the one that don't like rpg anymore, or if it is this type of rpg that made me feel like scooby doo gang in the 17th century; mission: talk to this guy to blablablabla *you talk to they guy* its not me, talk to this other guy to blablabalabla *you talk to the other guy* not me either, etc. i felt like a fool running stupid errands for blend people,I need to play anotherRPG to check if i'm the one that don't like rpg anymore, or if it is this type of rpg that made me feel like scooby doo gang in the 17th century; mission: talk to this guy to blablablabla *you talk to they guy* its not me, talk to this other guy to blablabalabla *you talk to the other guy* not me either, etc. i felt like a fool running stupid errands for blend people, in a pretty beautiful but pretty isolate world with like 4 kinds of different enemies, bumping into objects and being stuck, on them.
    talking about enemies, damn, the combact system is so bad, i was actually sad about it. i thought maybe i'd have lots of fun fighting, like with many differentattacks and powers and whatever, but meh, quite boring and frustrating.    … Expand
  30. SuperkenGaming
    Sep 30, 2019
    7
    GreedFall
    Full of Potential
    Greedfall is an open worldish rpg where you play as your own created character as they set out to find a cure for a plague taking over the lands… And im gonna get right to the point.. the story here is sooo boring, it wont pull you through this 19 hour adventure at all… I couldn’t tell your character names or plots.. I just couldn’t bother to care… except    GreedFall
    Full of Potential
    Greedfall is an open worldish rpg where you play as your own created character as they set out to find a cure for a plague taking over the lands…
    And im gonna get right to the point.. the story here is sooo boring, it wont pull you through this 19 hour adventure at all… I couldn’t tell your character names or plots.. I just couldn’t bother to care…
    except for of course my character and my characters cousin…
    So naturally the game must rely on its gameplay… and thankfully this is where Greedfall shines.
    GreeFall very quickly reminded me of Dragon Age Origins with a slight hint of assassins creed and the witcher…
    As you progress the game youll gain a party with hteir own quests, you can equip them with better items and gear throughout your journey….
    structure wise the game is the same from start to finish.. run to a travel marker or campfire.. fast travel to the quest location.. run to the spot on the map while you fight enemies in between, listen to some boring dialog… rinse and repeat until you get to an exciting boss battle…
    If you’ve played 2 hours of GreedFall you’ve played all hours of greedfall… nothing changes.
    But there was just something about it that kept me hook, icouldnt put this game down…
    Im not quite sure what It is… but despite the gamplay not changing up, and the story being so boring.. I couldn’t help but want to see this journey through to its end…
    it had some sortve spell on me…
    Despite all of its problems..
    There are essentially 2 different section to the world.. city and forest…
    Every city, every forest look and feel nearly identical from the outside to the insides
    enemies are few and far between.. but the hook was there.. leveling up… dumping my skills into a tree, making my character stronger and stronger… which does bring me to the biggest issue I have with this game…
    Leveling here is painfully slow…
    Sadly you kind of have to stick to one thing and one thing only per playthrough…
    You cant have a character that can carry powerful weapons and have heavy armor for example.. you just cant…
    Due to how slow points are given for each of the 3 trees, you have to really specialize in one thing which I don’t mind too much… but that was until the game was basically forcing me to choose certain skilsl towards the end of the story.. youre forced to craft items only about 4 times in the story.. but still to craft those 4 items you have no choice but to dump two skill points into areas you may otherwise not care to build upon..
    If im a warrior I shouldn’t be forced to dump my skills into science if im not crafting potions the whole game…
    This breaks the otherwise feeling of freedom the game has…
    Youre free to treat character in this game any way youd like, there are no fail states to missions… if youre detected when youre told not to you just have to fight your way through and figure things out from there…
    But forcing you to spend your points in a game that rarely hands those points out just really bothered me.. if youre going to make item crafting necessary for story progression, you shouldn’t also tie it to a skill and force me to use my remapping crystals.
    All in all though GreedFall has so much potential…
    With more incentive to explore, less item binding to certain skills or at the very least more points to spend as you level and a better story I believe GreedFall 2 or whatever spyder decides to do next could be even better…
    I give GreedFall
    a 7/10    … Expand
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#25 Most Discussed PC Game of 2019

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Metascore
72

Mixed or average reviews - based on 39 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 39
  2. Mixed: 20 out of 39
  3. Negative: 0 out of 39
  1. GameGrin
    Aug 8, 2022
    70
    GreedFall boasts a unique, semi-open world in which to immerse yourself, but is held back by the limitations of its game engine.
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  2. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Feb 28, 2020
    60
    The Spiders studio didn´t take players‘ comments on the previous titles seriously, and they repeat the same mistakes. GreedFall offers an interesting world, full of amazing characters and ideas, but lacks in other aspects. [Issue#298]
  3. Worth Playing
    Dec 10, 2019
    70
    Greedfall is a tough game to judge. It's neither bad nor great. It comes staggeringly close to greatness in a number of areas, but it just lacks the polish or ambition to go further. If you're looking for a nostalgic trip back to the mid-2000s style of WRPGs, then you'll find a lot to like in Greedfall. It's worth a shot if you're a fan of that style of games. In a year that gave us titles like Disco Elysium, it's difficult to be particularly impressed by something that is merely standard.
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