The Descendant

 PC
Metascore
61

Mixed or average reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 9
  3. Negative: 2 out of 9
  1. God is a Geek
    Feb 10, 2017
    85
    The Descendant offers a fascinating sci-fi tale intertwined with interesting puzzles, breathing fresh air into a genre that can feel stagnant at times.
  2. The Games Machine
    Feb 8, 2017
    80
    The Descendant is dubbed in English, but the interface and subtitles translation (in Italian) is excellent, and that's a very good start. The gameplay is rather original, different from what you can expect from an adventure game. It won't last too long (10 hours, give or take), but the experience is claustrophobic, cynical, disturbing and often surprising.

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User Score
7.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 22 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 22
  3. Negative: 3 out of 22
  1. Lordmetacritics
    Mar 27, 2016
    10
    You got to love this Telltales like game! A bit short but dirt cheap to buy. I dont even mind the somewhat bad voice acting cause the settingYou got to love this Telltales like game! A bit short but dirt cheap to buy. I dont even mind the somewhat bad voice acting cause the setting is perfect and the story really got me hooked!… Full Review »
  2. Pinnennet
    Mar 26, 2016
    10
    If you like Telltales games or Life is Strange then you’re going to love this!

    Right now they have just released the first episode so this    If you like Telltales games or Life is Strange then you’re going to love this!

    Right now they have just released the first episode so this will be a review of that, not the entire season.

    To start with the episode was quit short, just about an hour. That is my biggest concern this far. Humanity has destroyed earth ending it by nuking the whole surface. Luckily the governments built the “arks”. They held 4.000 of the most important people underground and made sure that there would be a tomorrow for mankind. You get to play the story throughout two separate timelines. First you play as Mia, a janitor, tasked with maintaining Ark 01. And you also play as Glen, two hundred years later. And Glen tries to find out why Ark 01 never opened when the other arks did.

    Its an intriguing story set in a wonderful apocalypse environment. The graphics isn’t amazing but I believe its better than both The walking dead and Life is strange. Gameplay is point and click puzzles mixed with a lot of dialog and dialog options just like expected. For me the puzzles was somewhat too easy but that could be just me. Something that I really like though was that in the end of the episode every failure I made in the puzzles during my gameplay resulted in one dead member of Ark 01. How many will be alive when I finished the season?

    To make it short. A great episodic game, perhaps a bit short but well worth the money!    … Full Review »
  3. apokalipto
    Aug 19, 2023
    9
    Very good game. I enjoyed playing this game a lot. I strongly recommend this.
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