Unknown 9: Awakening

 PC
Metascore
54

Mixed or average reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 7
  3. Negative: 3 out of 7
  1. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Dec 20, 2024
    40
    There’s a lot going on in the story, but it’s explained so haphazardly, you likely won’t understand the plot even after the credits roll. Same goes for gameplay: most of the combat options are unreliable to the point where you’ll never want to use them. [Issue#265, p.79]
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  2. Oyungezer
    Nov 22, 2024
    40
    You know, there are some games that you say, "I played this game, but why did I play it?"... Unknown 9: Awakening is exactly one of those games.
  3. Screen Rant
    Oct 17, 2024
    40
    There’s unmistakable ambition here, this wider matrix of interconnected, time-warping stories to be told and experienced by a diverse cast, but this first foray widely misses the mark. Absent further context from the additional podcast and comics, Unknown 9: Awakening is just hard to recommend, with players left to meet the game on its own terms alone. It makes for a tedious stealth/action adventure that always plays safe, saves its most interesting vistas for the absolute end, and can’t ever decide on what it perceives as its strengths. Neither can we.