Paradise Lost

 PC
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6.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 31 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 31
  3. Negative: 9 out of 31

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  1. xijinping
    Mar 26, 2021
    10
    The game is short but it's enough to appreciate a great story and mood. It looks amazing not only for an indie studio. Plus it's 10$ - definitely worth the money. Must play for ppl who appreciate intriguing story over cheap effects, explosions, and shooting waves of enemies.
  2. crazyking321
    Mar 29, 2021
    9
    loved it all the way through,

    Sure you walk slow, but the story and the love they put into it on how it looks it amazing, it has more detail than any big budget AAA game i have played for the last year!, it really is a must play if you think you will like it.
  3. Redentor89
    Mar 28, 2021
    9
    I don't remember playing game with such an intriguing story. From the beginning to the end(one of them), I was enjoying every moment. Atmosphere was perfect and getting better with every letter, document or tape I found. Voice acting was nothing extra, but Ewa was so lovely. Environment and locations surprised me. From the stone-cold bunker to interiors I found later, everything wasI don't remember playing game with such an intriguing story. From the beginning to the end(one of them), I was enjoying every moment. Atmosphere was perfect and getting better with every letter, document or tape I found. Voice acting was nothing extra, but Ewa was so lovely. Environment and locations surprised me. From the stone-cold bunker to interiors I found later, everything was perfect. Also background music and other sounds made the atmosphere so great. But it was the story you will enjoy the most. It's narrative, plotwist and slower pace. Can't wait to play it again with different choices and see their outcomes.
    The only things I would change are movement of Szymon and manual saves instead of checkpoints. On the other side, because of slower walking, I had more time to look around me and enjoy every detail of my way through this amazing game.    … Expand
  4. DatDarnSpaceCat
    Apr 1, 2021
    4
    This game is the worst Bioshock title yet.

    It's environmental storytelling and gameplay are utterly derivative of titles you'd wish you'd be playing instead as you are approaching the final chapter of the game. The game itself is nothing but a glorified linear walking simulator. The story however is something to behold. It feels as if the entire game was written by an elementary    This game is the worst Bioshock title yet.

    It's environmental storytelling and gameplay are utterly derivative of titles you'd wish you'd be playing instead as you are approaching the final chapter of the game. The game itself is nothing but a glorified linear walking simulator.

    The story however is something to behold.
    It feels as if the entire game was written by an elementary school student as a weekend assignment, a weekend assignment that the student got an A+ for and was really proud of his work. However the story itself is unimaginative, obvious and entirely linear, it does not take any advantage of the story's settings whatsoever and instead the writer opts out to create nonsensical plot twists that don't lead anywhere. The storytelling quite literally murdered any curiosity i had for the game's setting.

    It feels as if this game was made by exactly three people in total: a writer, a designer and a programmer. I can't shake the feeling that this was their very first venture into the video game industry. I do wish them well and i certainly do hope that there are more projects being worked on by the studio, however i also hope that this title will bring some much needed self-reflection to these developers.    … Expand
  5. Dubeau
    Apr 10, 2021
    6
    Paradise Lost has a good story. Derivative from Bioshock in a way. The problem is that it is a walking exploration that is extremely slow. That pace kills the tension and the emotion of the story. there is too limited interaction that is done with 2-3 buttons. Which gets boring really fast. I like the reading and audio parts. The levels are linear and the music is really good. The graphicsParadise Lost has a good story. Derivative from Bioshock in a way. The problem is that it is a walking exploration that is extremely slow. That pace kills the tension and the emotion of the story. there is too limited interaction that is done with 2-3 buttons. Which gets boring really fast. I like the reading and audio parts. The levels are linear and the music is really good. The graphics are ok. I give it 58%. Great story but a weak and very slow gaming aspect.… Expand
  6. Yoshiro83
    Apr 26, 2021
    6
    The action of the game takes us to the 1980s, when Europe still feels the effects of the war that lasted many years and the decision that Germany made twenty years earlier, unable to come to terms with the inevitable defeat. Their plan to annihilate the enemy ended with the use of nuclear weapons that killed millions of people. Poland (where the action of the game takes place) felt it veryThe action of the game takes us to the 1980s, when Europe still feels the effects of the war that lasted many years and the decision that Germany made twenty years earlier, unable to come to terms with the inevitable defeat. Their plan to annihilate the enemy ended with the use of nuclear weapons that killed millions of people. Poland (where the action of the game takes place) felt it very painfully, turning into one huge rubble covered with a thick layer of radioactive dust. In such realities, the main character of the game, a teenage boy named Szymon, has to deal with. A lonely 12-year-old man, traveling through a devastated country, ends up in a huge underground complex that was supposed to shelter the Germans from radiation. Now it is just an abandoned testimony of years gone by, in which he searches for information about his family, while discovering the truth about the whole complex and the mass of cruelty and madness that people - people have prepared.

    Showing an alternative history of World War II is nothing new and it could be found in dozens of different positions. However, the subject matter is not overly shabby yet and it still has a lot of potential to provide the recipient with a lot of fun. The creators of the game were well aware of this and very creatively. By plotting alternative events, they combined the story (of the genre of the kind that really could have happened) with the right dose of fantasy (in the form of mysterious technologies), additionally adding a really nice atmosphere and a pinch of post-apo. This mixture has created a really good story that can interest the player and provide him with a moment of "game" entertainment.

    The emotional and at times terrifying journey of a teenager through the abandoned rooms of an underground complex is fueled by several forms of narrative. Here we have the opportunity to get to know what the world looks like from a whole lot of documents, letters, left recordings or still functioning computers. In addition, there are numerous flashbacks focusing on the main character, his past and the secrets of his family. By far the most important element of the narrative that drives a large part of the story, however, is the radio contact with the mysterious Ewa, who will accompany Szymon in an immaterial way during his journey. It is their conversations that give the game an emotional overtone in many scenes that can be quite suggestive for the player.

    Nice story, great atmosphere, well-run narrative. It might seem that we are dealing here with an almost perfect game. Unfortunately, not everything is so great and the title suffered from some serious ailments. We are dealing here with a game from the adventure segment, from which the sub-genre of "walking simulators" has emerged in recent years. Games that are supposed to be easy, short and fun, that is, adjusted to present themselves well on a stream or YT. For many, it will be an advantage, but if you are an old bastard like me and you remember the old times, you expect a "real" highly addictive adventure from such a game. It is hard to get it when the whole game lasts within three hours, and all this time there is 1 (say ONE) logic puzzle, the level of which, to put it mildly, was not too thrilling. The situation is also not saved by the fairly corridor fun pattern, which is so characteristic of this type of games. The freedom to explore is clearly limited and it is best to stick to the "path" prepared by the creators. If someone wants to go on a small sightseeing trip around the bunker on their own, they will quickly encounter numerous "difficulties".

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58

Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. CD-Action
    Nov 15, 2021
    65
    Paradise Lost offers an engaging story set in a fascinating world, and it’s hard not to notice and appreciate all the work that went into polishing the environments. Sadly, there’s very little actual gameplay here and while the first two hours made me feel like an explorer delving into the unknown, I only reached the end because I had to. [05/2021, p.39]
  2. Adventure Gamers
    Apr 22, 2021
    70
    Dripping with atmosphere, the sights and sounds of a lost end-of-the-world Nazi installation make up for a lack of interaction in Paradise Lost.
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  3. Edge Magazine
    Apr 22, 2021
    50
    There's no development to be found in the details of Paradise Lost's development to be found in the details of Paradise Lost's carefully crafted props - that's all saved for cutscenes and diary entries. [Issue#358, p.112]
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