Paladins

 PC
User Score
7.3

Mixed or average reviews- based on 495 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 309 out of 495
  2. Mixed: 102 out of 495
  3. Negative: 84 out of 495

Review this game

  1. Your Score
    0 out of 10
    Rate this:
    • 10
    • 9
    • 8
    • 7
    • 6
    • 5
    • 4
    • 3
    • 2
    • 1
    • 0
    • 0
  1. Submit
  2. Check Spelling
view
per page
  1. klementineQt
    Aug 12, 2023
    9
    It's an insult (especially in the age of Overwatch 2) to call this game a clone, especially if you're aware of the development cycle and timeline of both games. But I do feel that I have to mention that first, due to the image the game has and how much that oversimplification has harmed the game's reputation.

    This game honestly feels infinitely more balanced than OW foundationally. OW    It's an insult (especially in the age of Overwatch 2) to call this game a clone, especially if you're aware of the development cycle and timeline of both games. But I do feel that I have to mention that first, due to the image the game has and how much that oversimplification has harmed the game's reputation.

    This game honestly feels infinitely more balanced than OW foundationally. OW forces you to play certain team comps, on certain maps, with each character usually having a single viable playstyle with little room to budge. Paladins offers tons of playstyles for each character through options like talents, in-game store abilities (think MOBAs, not actual cash stores), and even a loadout system using deckbuilding to sway your characters skills to your playstyle, optimizing exactly how you play.

    Overwatch is such a frustrating experience because of how thin its meta is and how you're forced into certain playstyles and comps. If you don't follow them, you're going to get steamrolled. If you play support or tank and don't have reliable teammates, you're going to get steamrolled since you can't manage enough to defend yourself. Paladins gives you the option to play your role and hold your own when you need.

    This game is not an Overwatch clone, it is better. You have options, you're not limited in how you can play characters, and while you probably aren't going to win without solid teamwork, you can at least have more freedom to sway the game in your direction and keep yourself alive by fighting back.

    Also horses so it doesn't take 7 years to get to the objective, Zenyatta could certainly use one lmao    … Expand
  2. Triblue
    May 21, 2023
    6
    Pourquoi joué à ce jeu quand on peut joué à Overwatch. Malheureusement Overwatch a été tué mais je joue plus à ce genre de jeu.
  3. BartoloKM
    Apr 28, 2023
    8
    the game was good in 2018 , but now it has a few people playing it or the matchmaking is bad so itcan take time to load in a game, but it is still a good game.
  4. reaLKovacha
    Apr 23, 2023
    5
    I've been playing this game on and off since 2016 and it's a good game, similar to Overwatch and Team Fortress 2 but different with it's own style.

    Unfortunately as time has passed the game has gotten worse and worse with each year. The focus of the developers transfered from making an exciting bug-free game to a money grab. Features such as Payload, Death Camera and Play of the Game    I've been playing this game on and off since 2016 and it's a good game, similar to Overwatch and Team Fortress 2 but different with it's own style.

    Unfortunately as time has passed the game has gotten worse and worse with each year. The focus of the developers transfered from making an exciting bug-free game to a money grab. Features such as Payload, Death Camera and Play of the Game were removed from the game "because of too many bugs" because the developers were too lazy to fix them.

    Instead they put all their time and effort into making battlepasses, new champions and most important.. skins... all the time...
    Another thing I dislike about modern day Paladins and the new champions in particular is lack in creativity when creating them. It's just a bunch stereotypes nowadays and fan service, not to mention a bunch of transgender LGBTQ bullsh1t.

    But what irritates me the most about the modern day Paladins (since like 2019 probably) is how hard and unfriendly they've made the game for new players. It's pay 2 win in literal sense of the word... back in the day the price of heroes was 3-4x cheaper than it is nowadays but also the money which you win from matches nowadays is 2-3x less than it used to be before.. oh and also you could win diamonds from matches before. The progression system also has gotten much worse.. back in the day you used to win chests when leveling up your heroes or your profile which felt rewarding to play the game... but now it's gone, real life money needed.

    Overall the game is still enjoyable nowadays if you are either willing to pay a lot of money for buying new champions or you have an old account with a lot of champions already unlocked.    … Expand
  5. Shiffpup2
    Feb 27, 2023
    8
    This game is really fun, and definitely worth your time! No character feels like another, all bring something to the table, and will benefit you differently based on how each player likes to play. The microtransactions are for skins only, as you can purchase every character without spending any real world money. Although I did pay to get every character when they release, it's a one timeThis game is really fun, and definitely worth your time! No character feels like another, all bring something to the table, and will benefit you differently based on how each player likes to play. The microtransactions are for skins only, as you can purchase every character without spending any real world money. Although I did pay to get every character when they release, it's a one time purchase that costs less than most games, and also is worth it if you're going to play this game a lot.… Expand
  6. eThot
    Feb 4, 2023
    8
    As the first Hero-shooter I played, nothing will ever make me forget this blast from the past of a game.
  7. Alvelian
    Dec 14, 2022
    7
    Была хорошей заменой overwatch, однако после того как овер стал бесплатным, смысла в паладинах нету.
  8. kaczan3
    Oct 23, 2022
    0
    This game used to be good and it was made with FUN in mind. But then company had to make bad hires and slowly they sturted pumping out predictable politics. Not as bas as another game by this publisher (already dead) Rogue Squadron, but still.
  9. hjikqfbiuqdbiqw
    Oct 8, 2022
    9
    stuck with paladins because overwatch 2 is an abomination of modern management
  10. Gliphy
    Oct 7, 2022
    7
    Это просто во всем хуже, чем Overwatch. Без обид всем фанатам, но если бы Overwatch был бесплатным, то все играли бы именно в него (а вторая часть и будет бесплатной).
  11. danilyoer
    Aug 27, 2022
    5
    Easy Anti-Cheat
    худшее, что есть в это игре, из-за него нельзя поиграть впринципе
  12. masterchief247
    Aug 20, 2022
    5
    Update: Im dropping my original score from an 8 to a 5. After significant time playing, the game has really taken steps back. Its basically because the player base has dwindled to badly due to poor matchmaking, bugs based on the games spagetti code that the programmers obviously have no clue how to manage, and over priced skins. The new champs released do not fit in with the lore of theUpdate: Im dropping my original score from an 8 to a 5. After significant time playing, the game has really taken steps back. Its basically because the player base has dwindled to badly due to poor matchmaking, bugs based on the games spagetti code that the programmers obviously have no clue how to manage, and over priced skins. The new champs released do not fit in with the lore of the game. The developers have truly checked out from supporting this game. Do yourself a favor, and look elsewhere. Paladins is just a toxic community, where kids have more fun trying to report you just because the team lost, then to actually play and try to win. After over 25 years of playing competitive games going all the way back to Doom, Paladins has become the worst experience. Truly unfortunate..

    Recently installed Paladins after abandoning Overwatch after 2 years of hundreds of hours of gameplay. Paladins at first looks lackluster, literally, compared to the bright cartoon-like graphics of Overwatch. Although, this is the ONLY aspect of Overwatch I feel is better than Paladins. Paladins has more heroes to pick from, and has a very unique system of using abilitiy boosting cards in each match, along with skills you can pick for each mach. This makes EVERY match unique and different from the next. See, in Overwatch, a particular hero is going to play exactly the same in each match. The only difference is the abilities of the player playing the hero. In Paladins, depending on what ability cards, and skill cards you choose to use, your hero will play very differently from game to game. I find this so refreshing. Overwatch developed many problems over the 2 years I played it, and Blizzard only made those worse. Paladins beats Overwatch in the most important aspect of the game.......Gameplay. Graphics do not mean anything if the gameplay is awful. This is why Paladins to me is a better product than Overwatch can ever hope to be.    … Expand
  13. TomKing13
    Jul 17, 2022
    6
    c: ........................................................................
  14. Mockinleafs
    Jul 10, 2022
    4
    The game looks good , at first glance. It looks like it has variety through the heroes with the card(spec trees) etc and you can actually get all the heroes or almost just by farming the game, you do not actually have to pay to win.
    On the good side, the game has some nice ideas, the mount system is fun, the rounds are not long nor short(sometimes). The graphics are Ok-ish at best.(well,    The game looks good , at first glance. It looks like it has variety through the heroes with the card(spec trees) etc and you can actually get all the heroes or almost just by farming the game, you do not actually have to pay to win.
    On the good side, the game has some nice ideas, the mount system is fun, the rounds are not long nor short(sometimes). The graphics are Ok-ish at best.(well, it is a free game).

    The bad things : Server HUGE lags, game stuck at loading screens, people stuck in spawn not being able to move.
    Too many afkers and bots (?)
    Even worse things for a shooter : the hitboxes are ridiculous ,huge and misleading on many heroes.
    Whole movement seems clunky and not solid at all, there is some slight input lag , it feels like its in the game.
    It could be very good , but it needs money.
    OW 2 is copying a lot of things from this, but better, because of the obvious budget differences.    … Expand
  15. Arthurmcarniel
    Jun 25, 2022
    10
    amazing smooth gameplay a lot of players and the skins are easy to get and on top of that they are beautiful
  16. DreamDays
    Jun 14, 2022
    5
    overwatch but its all about skins and broken characters that gets released after few patches.
  17. Izoeros
    May 10, 2022
    7
    qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq
  18. Grisamour
    Feb 28, 2022
    10
    Un Hero-Shoter muy sólido, un gameplay bien hecho con un sistema de items bien logrado.
  19. alisabunny
    Dec 4, 2021
    6
    Decent game. Very unbalanced. Map design is OK but could be a lot better. Cool cosmetics, lots of champions
  20. Villadiego
    Nov 30, 2021
    10
    Es un buen juego, muy entretenido, ideal para cuando llegas del trabajo o de la universidad candado y buscas algo para despejar tu mente, partidas no muy largas, intensas y con variedades de campeones, talentos, barajas e ítems que hacen jugarlos de manera diferente, tiene sus errores, no es perfecto pero es mi juego favorito.
  21. gamersfan
    Nov 12, 2021
    0
    I've been playing this game since early Closed Beta.
    Nothing has changed since the, it's still filled with bugs, bad balancing.

    This used to be an exciting game, now it just feels like a major cash grab. Skins everywhere.

    I can't recommend this in 2021
  22. khoitran101507
    Oct 28, 2021
    10
    Really nice game to play. Much better than OVERWATCH, and Paladins is free to play not lile OVERWATCH.
  23. MortySmith
    Jul 13, 2021
    0
    I love it! The gunfights are fast, every champion feels unique and awesome and this for free? OMG!
  24. Tempest305
    May 26, 2021
    6
    While I have greatly enjoyed this game there is one tiny bug that needs to be fixed. The fact that if the software glitches, and kicks you from a loading game where you then have to wait for eight, **** minutes. This is the absolute worst and needs to be patched before people’s cool downs begin to get insane. (It doubles every time.) this same glitch has also happened mid game. While thisWhile I have greatly enjoyed this game there is one tiny bug that needs to be fixed. The fact that if the software glitches, and kicks you from a loading game where you then have to wait for eight, **** minutes. This is the absolute worst and needs to be patched before people’s cool downs begin to get insane. (It doubles every time.) this same glitch has also happened mid game. While this isn’t quite as bad as you eventually load back in, It’s still pretty infuriating as your team will often lose the game if you were playing a vital role in that game. Hopefully this get fixed soon and I can give this game the rating it truly deserves.… Expand
  25. RubyYuWen
    May 24, 2021
    0
    get banned with no reason, what I experienced just like the most helpful review, the game shut down and I get banned, to be honestly, EAC is so terrible( I mean F you know)
  26. LoikMyName
    Apr 19, 2021
    0
    The matchmaking is terrible
    just **** **** it couldn't be worse, **** stupid ****
  27. kc0321
    Apr 9, 2021
    7
    Paladins is very fun to play with balanced shooting and hero abilities.
    This game is very friendly with shooting aim.
  28. LatiosGigetto
    Apr 8, 2021
    5
    What a waste of a perfectly functional game. Hi-Rez and their demented decision making have run this game into the **** ground when it could've been awesome. Refusal to fix the bugs, all effort on skins and useless balance changed with zero transparency. Why have you done this, Hi-Rez?
  29. Garybaldo
    Mar 23, 2021
    0
    Not only is this game bland, unbalanced, pay-to-win and boring, it also ensemblifies everything that the average ""gamer"" does not want in the video-game industry, including (but not limited to):
    *Blatant rip-off, garbage gameplay which shamelessly copies and pastes something that had its own success (not only a blatant Overwatch rip-off but it also announced its brand new Battle Royale    Not only is this game bland, unbalanced, pay-to-win and boring, it also ensemblifies everything that the average ""gamer"" does not want in the video-game industry, including (but not limited to):
    *Blatant rip-off, garbage gameplay which shamelessly copies and pastes something that had its own success (not only a blatant Overwatch rip-off but it also announced its brand new Battle Royale gameplay when Forntnite and Pubg were having their boom)
    *Treating video-games as if they were a banal product, look, I get some kind of capitalistic business practices if you're producing regular goods, but by riding into trends and trying to get money out of every single aspect of anything, at the point of making the game p2w, are practices that should be frowned upon and bashed within the video-game community, yet we accept pieces of **** like this game
    *Mind-blowingly sexualized female characters without any purpose, lore-justification, or objective whatsoever

    I think what annoys me the most about this game is the community approval it recieved, "games" like this should not exist, if we don't make this clear as a community **** like this will keep on being released and the market will overflow with nefarious products of this kind, the true decadence of the gaming industry.    … Expand
  30. Juakas10
    Feb 12, 2021
    8
    Bueno, por donde empezar...antes que nada me gustaría decir que soy un jugador veterano de Paladins, llevo jugando al juego desde 2017 y considero que a diferencia de muchos otros usuarios tengo la experiencia suficiente para poder tanto criticar los puntos malos del juego, como elogiar los buenos. Voy a comenzar primero por los buenos:
    1- Amplias posibilidades de personalización y    Bueno, por donde empezar...antes que nada me gustaría decir que soy un jugador veterano de Paladins, llevo jugando al juego desde 2017 y considero que a diferencia de muchos otros usuarios tengo la experiencia suficiente para poder tanto criticar los puntos malos del juego, como elogiar los buenos. Voy a comenzar primero por los buenos:
    1- Amplias posibilidades de personalización y variadas formas de juego con cada campeón. Era de esperarse tener que mencionar esto, a diferencia de otros shooters Paladins permite una gran personalización no solo de la apariencia del personaje, sino también de su estilo de juego, contando con talentos y cartas que afectan habilidades y características del personaje dentro de la partida.
    2- Curva de dificultad algo empinada pero digerible ¿a qué me refiero con esto? Para aprender mecánicas básicas y las habilidades de cada campeón no requiere de muchas partidas, pero eso sí, dominar al campeón al 100% requerirá de mucho más esfuerzo y trabajo duro, lo cual a mi parecer lo hace lucir desafiante pero entretenido en la práctica, además de recompensar (en la mayoría de campeones) al jugador con una skin dorada del personaje un vez alcanzado el nivel 50 de experiencia con dicho campeón, lo cual puede servir como incentivo a los jugadores.
    3- Es free to play. Con esto me refiero a que el juego desde el principio podría haber sido de paga, pero no lo fue, esto abrió la puertas a un público más extenso y dio oportunidades desde el comienzo.
    4- Actualizaciones constantes. Vamos a ser realistas, en lo personal no requiero de 40 actualizaciones mensuales como las que llegan a tener Fortnite o LoL, los cuales se actualizan cada 2 segundos, no creo que empresas menores como Hi-Rez u otras pudieran permitirse un ritmo de actualizaciones tan constante, pero eso sí, al menos yo estoy contento de recibir una actualización cada mes o mes y medio, ya que aunque se tarden estas traen grandes cantidades de contenido y lore al juego, y eso entretiene la espera.
    4- No es pay to win. En este punto hable desde mi propia experiencia, yo logré desbloquear todos los campeones en pocos meses de juego y además en solo 4 meses de ahorro de cristales me dio la oportunidad de comprarme el pase de batalla, esta parte en especial del juego me gusta, ya que recompensa la constancia y habilidad, si juegas ganarás oro y cristales, si juegas bien ganarás aún más oro y obtendrás cristales más rápido.

    Bueno, supongo que ya es tiempo de ir con los puntos malos:
    1- Sistema anti-trampas y sistema de reportes casi ineficientes. La cantidad de hackers no es tan exagerada como en otros shooters, peor siento que Hi-Rez no aprovecha esto mismo, ya que es una buena oportunidad para pulir el sistema anti-trampas, porque de no ser así los servidores podrían inundarse de hackers.
    2- Bugs múltiples. Si es cierto que en los últimos meses Hi-Rez ha parchado una buena cantidad de bugs, pero con cada nuevo que sale viene acompañado de sus buenos bugs y errores. En el mapa de Frog Island por ejemplo Kinessa puede aprovecharse de un error que le permite posicionarse en un spot desde el cual posee vista de gran parte del mapa y además es casi infranqueable; cabe mencionar también que en PlayStation 4 se pueden experimentar ciertos congelaciones y cierres repentinos del juego.
    3- Sistema de ranked competitivo obsoleto. Hemos tenido el mismo sistema de emparejamiento en partidas competitivas durante casi 3 años, y durante ese tiempo la parte competitiva de la comunidad ha logrado ver los errores e injusticias que se experimentan en algunas partidas, como por ejemplo que los roles de tanque y soporte se ven desfavorecidos en cuanto al posicionamiento que los jugadores reciben si se ven obligados a jugar estos roles en ranked, es decir, si juegas solo daño y flanco es más probable que llegues a rangos más altos. Después tenemos que hay una cantidad considerable de trolls ya sea el rango que sea.

    Bueno, creo que ese es el final de mi reseña, he tratado de hacerla de la forma más objetiva posible y viendo tanto puntos buenos como malos.    … Expand
prev
Page:

Critic Reviews

All reviews »
Metascore
83

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. CD-Action
    Sep 27, 2018
    80
    A solid, enjoyable hero shooter, varied and polished. Yes, it does have a lot of Overwatch DNA, but in some areas it’s more advanced than Blizzard’s game (e.g. wide range of adjustments you can make to adapt your character to your playing style) and it’s free. [08/2018, p.62]
  2. Vandal
    Jun 1, 2018
    81
    Paladins is a very solid hero shooter, with a great core gameplay and very good ideas. You can try it for free and its business model is not abusive at all, so we recommend you give it a try.
    Read full review
  3. Areajugones
    May 31, 2018
    88
    Paladins shouldn’t be seen just as the free alternative to Overwatch but, instead, should be praised as one of the best multiplayers nowadays. A great and addictive game that will surely entertain every kind of player thanks to its accessibility and well-developed mechanics.
    Read full review
See all critic reviews »