Path of Exile

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7.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 2202 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 1,641 out of 2202
  2. Mixed: 258 out of 2202
  3. Negative: 303 out of 2202

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  1. Verdale
    Apr 17, 2021
    0
    Don't be fooled, the game is not what it used to be. The company has sold out to the megacorporation Tencent and every business practice they put forward continues to show they are no longer in it for the community but for the money. They put out words that don't correspond with their actions, and think we are too dumb to notice the charade they are putting on in front of us.
  2. Delator
    Apr 17, 2021
    0
    - privileges to streamers, it is not the same for everyone players
    - major problems start leagues
  3. SealedSouL
    Apr 17, 2021
    0
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  4. LittleBigTruth
    Feb 23, 2021
    2
    I have no idea why people like this game. I tried starting it 5 times and all I saw was dull boring story, boring spells, the whole vibe of the game is desperation and depression.
    No thanks, I'd rather play something as outdated as Diablo 3 than this crap
  5. Hatwox
    Feb 13, 2021
    0
    ITS ****
    ok. Its .. complete and utter **** People talk of it like its amazing and i wanted to **** barf cause is gameplay made me think " maybe bashing my skull in is considered fun in this age" cause **** THERE IS NO PINT TO IT. like why...an autoclicker would probably gain sentience just to say **** you im not playing this game"
    Its **** and **** the whole "Complete biggest skill    ITS ****
    ok. Its .. complete and utter **** People talk of it like its amazing and i wanted to **** barf cause is gameplay made me think " maybe bashing my skull in is considered fun in this age" cause **** THERE IS NO PINT TO IT. like why...an autoclicker would probably gain sentience just to say **** you im not playing this game"

    Its **** and **** the whole "Complete biggest skill tree" **** YOU.. it changes nothing. and i dont care who thinks im wrong or "OO YOU MISSED THIS RANDOM THING" **** you. games are not made to be this........ piece of ****

    they wanted to be a successor to diablo 2
    naturally i thought diablo 2 must be the rotten **** of this universe
    TURNS OUT.. :D :D Yea its kind aamazing.. for unknown reasons. Its.. just amazing.
    Yea.. they were trying to BE THAT? :D Pathetic.. go rot in hell

    Also the positive reviews "Deepest game ever" "Best game in all genres" who **** paid these people    … Expand
  6. zombox5000
    Jan 14, 2021
    9
    Simply the best ARPG on the market right now, and for the last 7 years. There aren't any real competitors on the horizon either.
  7. JNS
    Jan 1, 2021
    10
    This is simply the best ARPG ever made, and the guys at GGG don't get tired to continue, improve it, and show the world how a worldclass service-game is being made. If you consider against how huge names they had to compete and how they left absolutely everybody behind in digital dust, it's hard to imagine how the game can still be free to play. This is an absolute masterclass example onThis is simply the best ARPG ever made, and the guys at GGG don't get tired to continue, improve it, and show the world how a worldclass service-game is being made. If you consider against how huge names they had to compete and how they left absolutely everybody behind in digital dust, it's hard to imagine how the game can still be free to play. This is an absolute masterclass example on how to maximize a game of a genre. I can't imagine that anybody else can ever top Path of Exile in the ARPG realm, certainly not the former big enterprise studios that got lost in boring causalness and countless of wrong decisions.… Expand
  8. Kelmeri
    Dec 23, 2020
    0
    Unplayable and generally not fun and so ugly even its own Mother couldn't Love it.
  9. DingerDonger
    Dec 23, 2020
    8
    Path of Exile is the only game worthy of the title of spiritual successor to Diablo II. The combat is fast paced (with VERY FEW SKILL COOLDOWNS THANK YOU), the visuals are great, and the game is INCREDIBLY deep... a little too deep. The skill tree isn't really that crazy once you break it down, but can be intimidating to new players. The big issue right now, though, is that the game isPath of Exile is the only game worthy of the title of spiritual successor to Diablo II. The combat is fast paced (with VERY FEW SKILL COOLDOWNS THANK YOU), the visuals are great, and the game is INCREDIBLY deep... a little too deep. The skill tree isn't really that crazy once you break it down, but can be intimidating to new players. The big issue right now, though, is that the game is getting bloated with too many evergreen mechanics. Prophecies, delve, incursion, heists, etc... The list keeps growing. If you take a break from this game and come back, be prepared to get bombarded with completely unfamiliar mechanics even on a normal campaign playthrough.

    Other than that, though, I firmly believe this is the only good modern ARPG out there. Path of Exile is the only one to get it right because they followed in the footsteps of Diablo II.    … Expand
  10. Torgall
    Dec 12, 2020
    8
    Excellent alternative to the Diablo series, and I'm glad that after many years it's still going strong. Biggest obstacle for most casual players it's the lack of any usual currency, so you have to trade with different items like a colonialist with some tribe members. The skill tree is also problem, but most people just follow blindly some builds or guides so they don't care.
  11. lucorp
    Dec 12, 2020
    10
    [420 hours on record] How to make more money from game than currently industry standard 40-50 € ? BIg companies, make notes:
    - release it for free,
    - bulid great community around it, - dont censor chat a lot, - dont make it pay to win - make money on selling visuals and supporter packs - make once per few month big update, which keeps game fresh thanks to adding new content I    [420 hours on record] How to make more money from game than currently industry standard 40-50 € ? BIg companies, make notes:
    - release it for free,
    - bulid great community around it,
    - dont censor chat a lot,
    - dont make it pay to win
    - make money on selling visuals and supporter packs
    - make once per few month big update, which keeps game fresh thanks to adding new content

    I payed around 200€ to game developers, but not because it was anyway needed for gameplay, but because I just wanted to support them in creating new content (never payed more than 60€ for a single game, datadisks/DLCs included) .    … Expand
  12. Kekkone
    Dec 11, 2020
    7
    As a long-time hardcore Diablo II fan I was very disappointed with Diablo III. My friends told me to try PoE, and it was surely better than Diablo III, but I still didn't get too excited.

    PoE looks nice but is overcrowded with visual effects to my taste. Playing some classes is just like looking at constant fireworks, and it's quite difficult to actually realize what is happening on the    As a long-time hardcore Diablo II fan I was very disappointed with Diablo III. My friends told me to try PoE, and it was surely better than Diablo III, but I still didn't get too excited.

    PoE looks nice but is overcrowded with visual effects to my taste. Playing some classes is just like looking at constant fireworks, and it's quite difficult to actually realize what is happening on the screen. Also I'm not that big fan of the crafting system. Is it really necessary to have hundreds of different ingredients? I think not. The character development is also very complicated. Of course it's a great to have lots of options, but you practically have to google your build to not go horribly wrong (well, same issue exists in most hack&slash shallow RPGs, but still...)

    Anyway, worth a play through especially because it's a free game. However I don't feel the same need to grind thousand hours for gear as I did with Diablo II, so something is still missing to make this game actually addictive. Maybe I'm just too old.    … Expand
  13. WOWisthebest
    Nov 25, 2020
    0
    Very, very trash game only low iq players like it. Even TESO or Diablo 3 is better.Worst Diablo clone ever. Easy and stupid mehanics. Bad animations. I recommend you World of Warcraft the Greatest game what ever made.
  14. zweibusen
    Oct 9, 2020
    0
    Sadly this game become a joke. every league starts with hundreds of bugs. u lose loot, get disconnected or if u play hc your character get killed through all this.
    a lot of skills dont work in the first weeks.
    also every league starts now with dupes and exploits. if u are not fast enough u have to buy all the broken things from the first ones who used the broken **** they laughed about    Sadly this game become a joke. every league starts with hundreds of bugs. u lose loot, get disconnected or if u play hc your character get killed through all this.
    a lot of skills dont work in the first weeks.
    also every league starts now with dupes and exploits. if u are not fast enough u have to buy all the broken things from the first ones who used the broken ****
    they laughed about wolcen (broken **** game), they become wolcen    … Expand
  15. b4l4cps
    Oct 3, 2020
    5
    ok first of all.. i really like the game and enjoy it, this game could be 10/10 without some issues... for me the main issue is the currency/items drop rate... lets say a new season begins and u want to play .. a good 6link chest or weapon is avg 1-8 EX also clusters and others stuff u expend 10-20 ex on most of the builds to make it work properly (U CANT DO THE END GAME WITH BUDGET BUILDSok first of all.. i really like the game and enjoy it, this game could be 10/10 without some issues... for me the main issue is the currency/items drop rate... lets say a new season begins and u want to play .. a good 6link chest or weapon is avg 1-8 EX also clusters and others stuff u expend 10-20 ex on most of the builds to make it work properly (U CANT DO THE END GAME WITH BUDGET BUILDS , TRUST ME, 5-10EX).. u will need to sit ur ass at least 10-12 hours per day to enjoy a good build with expensive items... this is nutS!!!

    i think if they work on this and make thinks a litle bit easier to drop.. like increase 10-15% stuff to drop a lot of ppl who doesnt play or have stoped playng it will come back to the game..i know a lot of friends who think the same and some of them work and have wife and children.. so they play other games that u dont need to stay 24/7 on to enjoy it.. if u know what i mean    … Expand
  16. Satsujin
    Oct 3, 2020
    10
    Ignore the game's bad reviews from 6 years ago. PoE is constantly evolving and I enjoy it like seldom before. I now have 2100 hours on the clock and there is no end in sight. Now go ahead and buy a companion cat to support the development! Come on!
  17. GregGT66
    Aug 31, 2020
    9
    The Diablo-like game we needed but do not deserved.
    Graphic - really good, but animation a little bit unpolished
    Gamplay - everything you would expect from aRPG
    Story - quite good
  18. Gkanjim
    Jul 9, 2020
    0
    This game does not deserve its score, so ill be balancing it a bit.
    There are so many optimization problems, lag, bugs(there was one that happened to me where the tul’s boss got frozen and immortal and didn’t drop a single item and other that some monsters got stuck above the map’s walls, i couldn’t kill them...) and a lot more issues that other reviews are specifying.
  19. Rakshasa
    Jul 8, 2020
    8
    My only comment is ; this game average 86 and Diablo 3 - 88 is a shame of all whom gave these points. But user scores show the reality. Good game
  20. ailee52
    Jul 6, 2020
    10
    If you think you need a whole new world with everything fresh, left click on poe .cya 10/10
  21. Szed77
    Jun 23, 2020
    1
    Formerly great game that has recently jumped the shark. It started several leagues ago with the introduction of a new mapping system that constitutes the game's "endgame." The former system was possibly the best endgame of any title in this franchise, and they replaced it with a bizarre, unintuitive structure that is just simply worse in every way. I'd try to explain it in detail, but thatFormerly great game that has recently jumped the shark. It started several leagues ago with the introduction of a new mapping system that constitutes the game's "endgame." The former system was possibly the best endgame of any title in this franchise, and they replaced it with a bizarre, unintuitive structure that is just simply worse in every way. I'd try to explain it in detail, but that would require writing a small guide, so I'll just state that the new version of the mapping system adds nothing of value to the game while simultaneously making it even more obtuse.

    At the same time they added this new endgame system, they also added one of the most poorly designed bosses I've ever seen in my ~30+ years of video gaming. The boss, Sirus, involves fighting the boss for maybe 10% of the encounter and dodging pools of bad stuff on the floor for the remainder of the time. The boss isn't even on the screen the majority of the fight. He could also kill you with abilities before the ability's animation played, and the deadly pools could block the entrance to the area, which prevented you from getting back into the fight after you died. They have made some changes to this fight in an attempt to make it less frustrating and buggy, but it's still bad.

    A few days ago, Path of Exile released their new league, "Harvest." It basically consists of a farmville-style mini-game that's rather unrewarding and largely ends up being an annoying time sink. The system involves planting seeds of various tiers in a garden, with different pylons and storage tanks and dispersers all strung together to optimize the process. It's not terribly difficult to get the hang of, but it simply isn'y fun, the rewards aren't fantastic relative to the time you spend, and nobody plays an action role-playing game for this sort of gameplay. The consensus is that this might be Path of Exile's worst league ever.

    I'm not sure what is going on over at Grinding Gear Games, but I feel like they're headed the wrong direction with their development of PoE. It's possible that the talented folks are working on Path of Exile 2, which leaves the B team working on the current game. I hope that PoE 2 has some better ideas implemented into it, or I might have to give that a pass. As for the current game, I think I'm done for the foreseeable future, which is a shame considering how much money I have sunk into it.    … Expand
  22. EmperorOfPurity
    Jun 21, 2020
    10
    Been playing since beta, the game is great, gets regular updates,, has a huge variety of skills and is not class dependent.

    Graphics get updated with each league, and all expansions bring major improvements to the gane
  23. YanFraser
    Jun 19, 2020
    8
    Мне нравится внешний вид игры и то как выглядят скилы, интересные механики, больше разнообразие билдов, можно часами ломать голову и выдумать новые взаимодействия между уникальными предметами(которых около тысячи) и гемами, новые лиги каждые 4 месяца которые не дают заскучать(хотя большинство игроков дропает игру на 1-2 месяце лиги), взаимодействие разработчиков с комьюнити, не влияющий наМне нравится внешний вид игры и то как выглядят скилы, интересные механики, больше разнообразие билдов, можно часами ломать голову и выдумать новые взаимодействия между уникальными предметами(которых около тысячи) и гемами, новые лиги каждые 4 месяца которые не дают заскучать(хотя большинство игроков дропает игру на 1-2 месяце лиги), взаимодействие разработчиков с комьюнити, не влияющий на баланс донат, не считая доната для своего сундка, после сюжетной линии становится всё тяжелее и тяжелее, если вы планируете играть в игру много времени то у вас просто нет шансов не задонатить на вкладки для сундука, тем более одна премиум вкладка нужна для трейда. Вообще трейд в целом мне нравится, кроме того что нужно альт табатся в браузер и покупать премиум вкладку, хоть это и дёшево, отличная игра для фанатов экшен РПГ и конечно важный плюс то что она бесплатная. Но есть и значительное количество минусов, очень плохая оптимизация, без ССД комфортной игры просто не будет, системным требованиям игры не советую доверять (уж для ендгейма они точно не подходят), довольно высокий порог вхождения в игру, хоть и гайдов много в интернете, как и в самой игре, но по прежнему новичкам в этой игре будет не легко, а если вам не знаком жанр экшен РПГ так игра вообще может задушить еще в первом акте, баланс скилов тоже не самый лучший, в каждой лиге просто есть набор сломанных скилов которые на порядок сильнее остальных, конечно играть можно всеми скиллами, но чувствуешь ты себя как-то ущербно, зная что можно просто взять метовую помойку и разнести контент. Так же довольно злое СНГ комьюнити, советую просто не обращать на этих людей внимания но почему-то всем очень хочется назвать вас дураком из-за того что вы не играете на ХК или играете скиллом который использует тотемы или сумонов, среди остальных игроков такое тоже наблюдается но как по мне в разы реже. Сам я играю в эту игру с 2014, часто остаюсь недовольным после сломанного баланса в новой лиге, который каждый раз фиксят около двух недель до хоть какой нибудь играбильности, но всё же каждую лигу хотя бы месяц да поиграю, может из-за того что сейчас в целом мало игр, особенно такого жанра, может у меня дурной вкус, но эта игра затягивает и от неё получаешь удовольствие, я думаю 8/10 заслуженная оценка, хоть она может показаться довольно странной учитывая все минусы… Expand
  24. XposingMods
    Jun 19, 2020
    3
    The in-game moderators and forum moderators are very toxic and give preferential treatments and abuse their power to have your account locked or mute you in chat. Once instance I merely used the phrase "ALOHA SNACKBARZ" and my account was locked but uhh people who used that word in forum was not banned or that word was not even censored and they even allow guilds to have guild names suchThe in-game moderators and forum moderators are very toxic and give preferential treatments and abuse their power to have your account locked or mute you in chat. Once instance I merely used the phrase "ALOHA SNACKBARZ" and my account was locked but uhh people who used that word in forum was not banned or that word was not even censored and they even allow guilds to have guild names such as "ALAHO/ALLAHU snackbarz" for 4 years ++. The fact that they allowed this is an acknowledgement that the word is ALLOWED to be used in forums or in the game itself since guild members are allowed to have their guild name tags shown in game chat OPENLY. I reported these preferential treatment to the support email and guess what? They are not even interested in what i have to say..All they cared are about erasing those records and cover their tracks and deleting all evidence of it. But uh... little did they know I made screen shot proofs BEFORE I submit those evidence links and after they have shamelessly deleted/amended those proof, I made a screenshot of it as well.
    … Expand
  25. CoolDadTx
    Jun 14, 2020
    4
    Ok ARPG starting out but steadily goes downhill starting with act 5 when you go back through the same areas again. Mostly the same thing every other ARPG has but the skill system is out of control, the crafting is so large as to be mostly meaningless and the boss battles work the exact same way every time with just another paint job. It is clear this game is designed for MMO even thoughOk ARPG starting out but steadily goes downhill starting with act 5 when you go back through the same areas again. Mostly the same thing every other ARPG has but the skill system is out of control, the crafting is so large as to be mostly meaningless and the boss battles work the exact same way every time with just another paint job. It is clear this game is designed for MMO even though you can play it solo.

    The boss battles are probably the worst (or close to it) of any ARPG I've ever played. The all work the exact same way and are guaranteed for you to die. Bosses do some mediocre attacks a couple of times and then do some high powered attack that is sometimes avoidable but often not. If you don't die immediately then you'll need to regen health. Rinse and repeat. Laster bosses also have an area of effect attack that pretty much instantly kills you irrelevant of resistances or anything else. My resists were maxed and I died every time. Early in the battle they tend to affect an area of the (already small battleground) but as the battle goes on they get bigger until they cover the entire field. So there is no defense against this attack and you die. After a while the boss becomes invulnerable and summons minions. This is where you're supposed to recover your health/mana but they some literally entire screen fulls of enemies such that you generally get overwhelmed and die. Even worse is that when you reenter the area they are already on top of you. I died multiple times as soon as I entered the area before I could even move. The boss battles are plain awful. The best choice is to get up close and wail on the boss until you die and then spawn back in. Nothing else works.

    The next issue is that the devs haven't gone to UI 101 training. When you die you get 2 options: return to town or return to checkpoint. The default is town but that almost always involves tracking back through areas (which have probably respawned). The correct choice is checkpoint but if you're mashing buttons to try to attack someone when you die it is read as return to town and so you get screwed over. Every UI person knows you don't put the least popular choice first and choices that have consequences should never be applied just because of a click. I thought games were past these poor UI issues??

    ARPGs are loot based and the loot in this game is pretty poor compared to others. This game is clearly mass RND but most stuff you find late game is worse than what you have now. Most ARPGs start spitting out better equip later in the game but this game keeps spitting out useless stuff. The equipment itself can be good but mostly doesn't help you in larger battles. This is where the crafting comes in. There are so many different pieces of crafting that it is insane. You need it all though because each crafting has minimal impact on anything. It is like the devs knew this was a problem so many crafting items are simply for taking a normal item and making in magical. A better idea would simply to improve your loot system. I never created a single item that was anywhere near as good as what I had.

    The skill tree is out of control as well. Skills are so far apart that to get the ones you likely want you're going to be snaking through useless skills. Most all skills provide bare minimal usefulness anyway. +5% dmg here, +2% health there. Nothing is overly useful in this tree, if you can find it to begin with. It is clear this has evolved so you know can put "jewels" in your tree. But only if you select useless skills to get there. jewels aren't worth it. Again it is like the devs know this so they hand out respec points like there is nobodies business so you can change your mind. I never used them and had 21 by end of game.

    As the game evolves they add new features which could be interesting but all of them are poorly described, scatter everywhere and rarely useful. I can't count the times somebody said I should go here and I went there just to find out it was to clear out yet another area to get something that I had no idea the purpose of. There comes a point where you should just start removing things that are old, stop adding to the chaos.

    The enemies are traditional but in later acts it is clear the devs just pump up the damage and hp to add the challenge. Nothing new here. Even worse is that "uniques" appear around almost every corner and they tend to be more bullet spongy. To the point that I would run away from certain classes of uniques because they weren't worth the fight. There is serious balancing issues in later acts for no real reason. The whole level guide on the map means nothing.

    Overall this is an OK RPG (at least early on) that stays entirely too long (act 5+ is equivalent of higher difficulty in traditional games), has poor loot, meaningless skills and crafting, and boss battles that are just unfair to a single player. Later acts bring this game way down.    … Expand
  26. zzz_DeV1L_zzz
    Jun 13, 2020
    8
    The best game in its genre. Every season I upgrade 1-2 characters. But for some reason, after the plot, it becomes boring, although the gameplay after the plot is more interesting. Perhaps this is due to the fact that there is simply no goal and you do not see the point in the game. Sorry 8.
  27. Lizarino
    May 31, 2020
    1
    Game lags and freezes far too often to be enjoyable
    Gameplay and UI is clunky, inventory space is horrible
    I have had frequent connection issues to the servers for this game, sometimes it's fine and other times it will not let me connect or lag a lot (for weeks or more at a time)
  28. ZubriQ
    May 20, 2020
    10
    PoE is in truth of the best unkillable best slasher ever made. You can play for free and donations will only affect on customization of your character or hideout
  29. WDPIR32K3
    Apr 23, 2020
    10
    Best free to play game ever it's not pay to win I have over 600 hrs in this game
  30. TechMarine
    Apr 11, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I used to like this game.

    A long time ago, in a world slightly less crazy than our good ol' 2020, this game wanted to do what Diablol did not do. People were starting to get pissy with Blizzard for some of their D3 shenanigans, and rightfully so. This game promised depth, a vast end game, and massive customization. It delivered, was free, and had no loot boxes or p2w mechanics.

    It's 2020 now. Some *brilliant* person at GGG decided to sell out to Tencent. Now the game feels like a vast wasteland. We still don't have trade improvements, everything destroys your character to encourage you to grind much, MUCH more to actually get anywhere, there's too many outdated league mechanics bogging down the game and forcing you to buy stash tabs to be competitive, the devs SUCK at making the game fun anymore (I'm looking at you, Sirius the Dankener), and in place of any positive aspect, we got loot boxes. Yay, we got loot boxes!

    Good luck with your "new" PoE without a new Diablo to rip off of. I can't wait to see all the cosmetic options funneling money to China.    … Expand
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Awards & Rankings

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#20 Best PC Game of 2013
18
#18 Most Discussed PC Game of 2013
14
#14 Most Shared PC Game of 2013

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Metascore
86

Generally favorable reviews - based on 27 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 27
  3. Negative: 0 out of 27
  1. RPGamer
    May 9, 2014
    100
    Grinding Gear Games has created something special here, and given it gratis to the world.
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  2. Pelit (Finland)
    Mar 11, 2014
    88
    Hack & slash games are addictive because they follow a simple formula: kill, kill and kill some more. Path of Exile is no different in this regard. During your quest in the perilous continent of Wraeclast you need to slay thousands and thousands of monsters but it never gets boring because there are a plenty of fresh ideas like the very vast skill system and barter-based economy that differentiate it from other similar games. But it's not a perfect game. The story is weak and the difficulty level is too low in the beginning. [Dec 2013]
  3. PC Gamer
    Jan 13, 2014
    84
    An exceptionally generous free-to-play action-rPG. What it lacks in punch it makes up for in depth and value for money.
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