Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem

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  • Summary: A dynamic hack’n’slash with no class restrictions. Choose your path as you level-up and play your character the way you want. Explore this shattered and corrupted world to uncover its ancient secrets and hidden truths.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 19 out of 25
  3. Negative: 2 out of 25
  1. 3DJuegos
    Feb 27, 2020
    80
    Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem is a good action isometric perspective RPG that knows how to take what you need from games like Diablo III or Path of Exile. Its playability is fun and demanding, although it does not escape the sense of repetitiveness inherent in the works of its genre. It highlights the excellent work that has been carried out in the system of skills improvements and levels rise, but it is dazzled by a multiplayer section still pending some improvements in its servers, although it has been on track since its launch. With a new mode at the end of the main campaign, the options for those who wish to stay are endless. Undoubtedly, one of the surprises of this beginning of the year that, will have to do with time if it stays in a “take away” while Diablo IV arrives or manages to keep his community hooked with new content.
  2. GRYOnline.pl
    Feb 25, 2020
    75
    Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem deserves your attention and patience. You can clearly see the passion, commitment and a fresh look on the hack'n'slash genre. Right now the game is a well-made evolution of old ideas but it has a chance to become one of the best if the developers deliver all the promised content. Despite many technical issues, Wolcen is worth your time. The game is simply too much fun.
  3. PC Games
    Feb 22, 2020
    70
    Wolcen stands firmly on the shoulders of Diablo 3 and does a surprisingly good job of replicating its formula. Forceful combat, interesting ways to develop a character and fancy graphics come together in a decent campaign, even though it feels overly familiar and even a bit unfinished at times: The end game needs more content and variety, the balancing seems a little off and there is a good amount of bugs left in the game. While Path of Exile or Grim Dawn clearly remain the better options right now, there might still be a bright future for Wolcen - if the devs keep on patching things up and adding new content.
  4. Attack of the Fanboy
    Feb 27, 2020
    60
    Wolcen could have been a contender in the ARPG arena, but it can't get out of it's own way for more than two seconds. Perhaps in time WOLCEN Studio will patch everything up and allow the game to shine as it deserves, but right now the game fights you at every turn. Wolcen is game that is as fun as it is frustrating. I like Wolcen; I simply wish I could love it.
  5. Meristation
    Mar 11, 2020
    60
    Beautiful and interesting ARPG following the steps of Diablo and Path of Exile, but severely lacking in general polish.
  6. 4P.de
    Feb 25, 2020
    58
    Hack-and-Slay heaven and bug hell: Wolcen be thy name. While the battle system and the visuals lay the foundation for a promising motivation cycle, the enormous amount of bugs as well as annoying gamedesign blemishes keep pushing you away.
  7. GameSpot
    Feb 28, 2020
    40
    Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem is frustrating to play for the majority of its campaign, leaving you with little motivation to dedicate more time to endgame events. There are many technical issues that can be fixed to alleviate some of this frustration, but it's the deeper ingrained problems with difficulty balance and character build viability that keep Wolcen from fulfilling its enticing promise of a free-form ARPG. It has all the elements in place to become another engrossing time sink, but it doesn't execute well enough on any of them to make it worthwhile.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 88 out of 237
  2. Mixed: 43 out of 237
  3. Negative: 106 out of 237
  1. Marigoldran
    Feb 14, 2020
    10
    Visually beautiful for an ARPG. One of the most unique mechanics that makes hybrid characters even better then min/max ones. There areVisually beautiful for an ARPG. One of the most unique mechanics that makes hybrid characters even better then min/max ones. There are negative reviews for the game only because it was so f-ing popular on Steam that it crashed the servers. Hit 90k players online concurrently, which is third place on Steam charts, behind GTA and COD. The developers simply weren't prepared for what a smash hit the game was, hence the server issues.

    If you wanted a successor to Diablo 2 or Path of Exile, this game is it.    … Expand
  2. Wyvernjack
    Feb 16, 2020
    10
    The game itself is great. It plays just as you'd expect it. They have some nice quality of life traits such as cosmetic gallery and the talentThe game itself is great. It plays just as you'd expect it. They have some nice quality of life traits such as cosmetic gallery and the talent wheel's can be spun around to creature unique builds. The negative reviews are based mostly around online servers not working at launch. People are review bombing the game because the servers had issues on launch, but 65k of us are still enjoying the game offline.… Expand
  4. Seba1812
    Feb 13, 2020
    10
    Game is receiving bad reviews because of issues with servers on the launch day (due to the massive users concurrence). This happened even toGame is receiving bad reviews because of issues with servers on the launch day (due to the massive users concurrence). This happened even to Diablo 3 and not represent the quality of the game.
    I could appreciate Act 1 in the early access and the game looks really promising.
    I set a 10 to bring a little bit of balance here...    … Expand
  5. sovereignsfall7
    Feb 19, 2020
    5
    Should’ve never been released in the state that it was. Has some potential but it’s been squandered with terrible online functionality andShould’ve never been released in the state that it was. Has some potential but it’s been squandered with terrible online functionality and lack of polish overall… Expand
  6. Matsudo
    Feb 26, 2020
    3
    If we ignore the rocky launch and all of the current bugs, then Wolcen is a game that initially presents itself really well. The graphics lookIf we ignore the rocky launch and all of the current bugs, then Wolcen is a game that initially presents itself really well. The graphics look nice, the campaign was enjoyable, the combat feels relatively smooth and on the face of it the game seems to have a decent amount of depth.

    However, once you get to the late game you quickly begin to realize that many of the underlying systems are heavily flawed at their cores. This includes itemization, power and speed scaling, the hour by hour gameplay loop, level design, and so on and so forth.

    In the end Wolcen just doesn't compare to the established ARPG titles and would require a fundamental overhaul if it was to compete with the PoE and Diablo franchises. With all the bugs, exploits, inconsistent terminology and unfinished online-play, it feels like Wolcen in its current state is at best a very mediocre ARPG that should still be in alpha.    … Expand
  7. Fiotours
    Feb 16, 2020
    1
    I really wanted to like this game and maybe I will play it in the future, IF they can repair the enormous amount of problems they have but iI really wanted to like this game and maybe I will play it in the future, IF they can repair the enormous amount of problems they have but i don't have any hope anymore after 2 days Server down, a lot of minor bugs and some really major gamebreaking ones.
    Sure some people did not have such issues or maybe denying their existence. But i guess most of the players have it.
    And the worst is all the copy/paste excuses like every other developer who f.... up their games/releases.

    Playing the offline-mode is not an option, it is the same buggy mess. Even worse, because u can easy lose ur progress/characters and other stuff and it is not how i want to play this game. I bought it because of playing with Friends. At this state i can't recommend, instead i warn u to buy it at the moment. Wait some months, and if the game still Exits then u might take another look in to it.    … Expand
  8. orukusaki
    Jun 30, 2020
    0
    They released an unfinished buggy ass game for $59.99 lol THAT STILL IS VERY BUGGY as I write this review. Unless they release a very largeThey released an unfinished buggy ass game for $59.99 lol THAT STILL IS VERY BUGGY as I write this review. Unless they release a very large update patch to fix a lot of obvious issues do not waste your money.… Expand

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