Syberia 3

 PlayStation 4
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5.9

Mixed or average reviews- based on 73 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 28 out of 73
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 73
  3. Negative: 27 out of 73
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  1. theTRUTHson
    Apr 25, 2017
    6
    I think Syberia 1 and 2 are adventure classics that every adventure fan should play.

    Unfortunately they made Syberia 3 a jogging simulator. The number of bad design decisions will blow your mind if you are a fan of the previous games. Just to name a few: >Going full 3d with "Resident Evil" type controls >Having to press the right trigger constantly to run >Hot spots are small white    I think Syberia 1 and 2 are adventure classics that every adventure fan should play.

    Unfortunately they made Syberia 3 a jogging simulator. The number of bad design decisions will blow your mind if you are a fan of the previous games. Just to name a few:

    >Going full 3d with "Resident Evil" type controls
    >Having to press the right trigger constantly to run
    >Hot spots are small white dots that appear only when Kate is near and facing them
    >Hidden small items in huge areas
    >Long loading screens when entering certain doors
    >Long distances / Kate runs slow
    >Unskipabble dialogue and cut scenes

    And other poor choices that adventures have put behind them for years now.

    Also, the game is a technical mess. Floors/ stairs that don't appear, doublicate items in inventory, items in inentory that you have already used... Countless bugs and glitches. It is absolutely rushed and one of the worst I have seen. I won't go into detail.

    The backbone of Syberia is still here and Benoit Sokal has made an interesting story once again but Microids does everything they can to kill off a series that defined the genre. This is an absolute disgrace to the previous games.

    Still, buy the game on a sale. Playing with a walkthrough in hand to avoid jogging Kate for days can still be somewhat fun. Especially for old fans.    … Expand
  2. SuperkenGaming
    Apr 27, 2017
    5
    Syberia 3 is a point and click adventure game where you play a Kate walker
    The game starts with you being rescued by a village and then you wake up in a hospital…
    And then you set out to escape and help your new best friend get a new leg… This is your typical point and click game.. You’re in an open area with things to find run around… click everything til something happens... And    Syberia 3 is a point and click adventure game where you play a Kate walker
    The game starts with you being rescued by a village and then you wake up in a hospital…
    And then you set out to escape and help your new best friend get a new leg…
    This is your typical point and click game..
    You’re in an open area with things to find
    run around…
    click everything til something happens...
    And once you have some stuff in your inventory... click everything else until something else happens to progress the game…
    The puzzles here are actually pretty logical, so a guide isn’t really necessary for this game..
    But does that mean the 8 and a half hours are fun to play through?
    No
    not at all…
    The puzzles have way to many steps to them, bringing the game down to a constant crawl…
    and none of the puzzles are interesting or make you feel clever
    The answers are all obvious... you just have to go find the stuff and trade things for other things
    They all feel like fetch quests..
    Annoying roadblocks in the way of the story…
    Which also isn’t good…
    Evil doctors are after you of course…
    They’re trying to get these village people to leave...
    But I just couldn’t take any of it seriously
    the characters are lazy
    the voice acting is a joke...
    The lip syncing looks like they didn’t even try...
    They probably didn’t actually...
    They just made the lips randomly move...
    And the audio will randomly put pauses in between words
    At least Kates outfit is cute.
    I give Syberia 3
    a 5/10    … Expand
  3. ibarut
    May 31, 2019
    0
    Syberia 3 has a lot of game breaking bugs. Sometimes it cant be loaded, sometimes buttons not responding. And only solution for this bugs, you have to start it over from the beginning. I suppose Microids cant effort to hire a tester for this shameful game.

    Do yourself a favor and don't even download this unfinished game.
  4. piuscorvus
    Jun 25, 2020
    3
    I was really excited when I heard about new Syberia game. As a fan of the first two games I expected a lot but Syberia 3 doesn't get even close to the quality of the first two games.
  5. Shaft16
    Apr 27, 2017
    9
    finaly on PS4. starting to play and love it.
    at this stage i'm stuck in a puzzle because its kind of hard but i love the challenge
    great thing!!
    it looks like it will be a Syberia weekend:)
  6. darknonox
    May 2, 2017
    10
    I loved Syberia 1 and 2, and I was looking forward to playing the sequel! So that's why I bought Syberia 3 day one
    I really enjoy to play again with kate Walker and especially on next gen. For those who like the point and click/adventure games, this one is for you guys.
  7. NikolayG
    May 14, 2017
    10
    A game that is strong on character and story, demanding that in order to progress, you solve problems rather than shoot or blow things up, Syberia 3 is the best game in the Syberia series. In it, as Kate Walker, a New York attorney who has abandoned her career for adventure in pursuit of meaning, you will have a great time with a host of characters in beautiful environments. This game hasA game that is strong on character and story, demanding that in order to progress, you solve problems rather than shoot or blow things up, Syberia 3 is the best game in the Syberia series. In it, as Kate Walker, a New York attorney who has abandoned her career for adventure in pursuit of meaning, you will have a great time with a host of characters in beautiful environments. This game has me hooked and for the 20 to 30 hours I'll be playing my way through it, it really takes the place of movies and novels. It has a presentation similar to movies but a length and depth more akin to a novel. Highly recommended.… Expand
  8. SamppaS72
    Apr 26, 2017
    9
    Excellent old fashioned adventure game with modern graphics.Many have complained about bugs, but after a 14 GB update everything works just fine at least on ps4. Benoit Sokal is familiar name for everybody interested in graphic novels and the drawing is beautiful to say the least, and we have real ,interesting plot. The difficulty of the game is up to you, you can have lots of tips or noneExcellent old fashioned adventure game with modern graphics.Many have complained about bugs, but after a 14 GB update everything works just fine at least on ps4. Benoit Sokal is familiar name for everybody interested in graphic novels and the drawing is beautiful to say the least, and we have real ,interesting plot. The difficulty of the game is up to you, you can have lots of tips or none at all, so don't complain about that. I think the reason why so many have given a bad review about this game were due to too early release of the game at least on pc. Not enough testing in a hurry I think. But the ps4 version has nothing to fix after the update. This is fantasy at it's best and no violence, but puzzles to solve and beauty of a world to wonder.… Expand
  9. alirezarznia
    Apr 9, 2018
    10
    i think who say syberia is Not much fun has not understood it and didn't play Previous versions .. this game is Really great
  10. perchik
    Aug 8, 2019
    10
    as for me it’s one of the best quests for the entire gaming industry, yes optimization is lame, but here the main thing is atmosphere
  11. mattonna
    Apr 16, 2019
    8
    People looking for the feeling of Syberia but can understand that nostalgia is something rarely recaptured will enjoy this game. The aesthetics - though no longer a 3d model on 2d backgrounds are very much the same (Sokal, the original, designed them!). The initial release on PS4 was plagued with bugs - the vast majority are fixed and there is now also a free DLC adventure revolving aroundPeople looking for the feeling of Syberia but can understand that nostalgia is something rarely recaptured will enjoy this game. The aesthetics - though no longer a 3d model on 2d backgrounds are very much the same (Sokal, the original, designed them!). The initial release on PS4 was plagued with bugs - the vast majority are fixed and there is now also a free DLC adventure revolving around Oscar to download. The voice acting is NOT very good - it was rushed and done for cheap. I assume that the French language version (the original) is far better. The ending can leave a bad taste in your mouth as they were trying to set it up for Syberia 4 - which will probably not happen.… Expand
  12. minion1
    Jun 6, 2019
    7
    This game is a solid 7,5/10 for me. Story is excellent and exactly what I would expect from a sequel and music is fenomenal. Original Syberia was never about story, but rather about ambient lyric atmosphere of abandonment and days long gone.

    Despite general critique, I even enjoyed game´s graphics, which was crafted in the same vaine as the originals. Unfortunately there are cons.    This game is a solid 7,5/10 for me. Story is excellent and exactly what I would expect from a sequel and music is fenomenal. Original Syberia was never about story, but rather about ambient lyric atmosphere of abandonment and days long gone.

    Despite general critique, I even enjoyed game´s graphics, which was crafted in the same vaine as the originals.

    Unfortunately there are cons. Camera angles are sometime atrotious, clunky controls transforming puzzle solving into chores, when you know the solution, but can´t operate the mechanisms properly.
    And there are occassional bugs.

    If you can get over these issues, the game is definitely worth your time.    … Expand
  13. Wackme
    Jan 2, 2020
    6
    Syberia 1 and 2 i played multiple times on pc and ipad, fantastic game!. I waited al long time for syberia 3, but now i wish they had waited with the release. Eventually i accepted the bad controls, bad lip sync en bad voices. After a while they also fixed some bugs in the game, but the game doesnt feel right.

    Positive: Graphics Negative: Bad controls Bad lip sync Voices dont    Syberia 1 and 2 i played multiple times on pc and ipad, fantastic game!. I waited al long time for syberia 3, but now i wish they had waited with the release. Eventually i accepted the bad controls, bad lip sync en bad voices. After a while they also fixed some bugs in the game, but the game doesnt feel right.

    Positive:
    Graphics

    Negative:
    Bad controls
    Bad lip sync
    Voices dont match the characters
    Story doesnt feel logical or fun

    I wont play this game ever again.    … Expand
  14. parham76
    Nov 15, 2017
    10
    Excellent old fashioned adventure game with modern graphics.Many have complained about bugs, but after a 14 GB update everything works just fine at least on ps4. Benoit Sokal is familiar name for everybody interested in graphic novels and the drawing is beautiful to say the least, and we have real ,interesting plot. The difficulty of the game is up to you, you can have lots of tips or noneExcellent old fashioned adventure game with modern graphics.Many have complained about bugs, but after a 14 GB update everything works just fine at least on ps4. Benoit Sokal is familiar name for everybody interested in graphic novels and the drawing is beautiful to say the least, and we have real ,interesting plot. The difficulty of the game is up to you, you can have lots of tips or none at all, so don't complain about that. I think the reason why so many have given a bad review about this game were due to too early release of the game at least on pc. Not enough testing in a hurry I think. But the ps4 version has nothing to fix after the update. This is fantasy at it's best and no violence, but puzzles to solve and beauty of a world to wonder.… Expand
  15. lightningsparx
    Dec 26, 2018
    10
    I actually enjoyed this game very much. I just wish we could get a Syberia 4 soon to resolve the ending.
  16. L1aL1
    May 18, 2018
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. So excited to get my first PS4 game. Brand new PS4, brand new game 39,95 EURO...Started playing and found the graffics bit outdated but still fond of it in general, however....only after I arrived in the harbor, and convinced the captain to take the boat...the game did not want to start up anymore. The image froze, and I can't get in that level anymore. I should restart is what I read.
    But I do not feel like it anymore... Hope there will be a bug-fixer, but for now...very low score. Who reviewed this game? It is quite unbelievable this kind of mass-error shows in every online forum and no-one comes with a solution. 39,95 EURO....down the drain...    … Expand
  17. dagarquin
    Oct 18, 2021
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I am a fan of Syberia since its first game and I enjoyed the two previous adventures. But Syberia 3 simply lacked a few months of testing. I have played it in 2021, so they will not release any more updates, because it was released in 2017. I have had to install, uninstall and reinstall it more than 10 times, as some bugs are fixed with patch 1.07, but other bugs are fix playing in version 1.00! I have found objects that were impossible to collect and that are necessary to progress in the adventure (diving area), talk to people who were not on the screen (Yukols in Baranour) or, simply, the gane was frozen after an animation (Baranour underground). Apart from these very serious bugs, there are dozens of small bugs such as Kate Walker floating on the air or getting trapped between the furniture, videos that do not coincide with the real situation of the adventure (Baranour train). The most fun of them in my opinion was the carpenter's table in the Baranour underground. In the image you can see Kate Walker sitting, but then I arrive, moving my other Kate Walker to light a torch on that table and there are 2 Kate Walker on screen! I recommend that you do not play it unless you are an unconditional fan of Syberia, because you will get too frustrated.… Expand
  18. deborainesrocha
    Apr 18, 2020
    0
    Very slow, full of glitches, a lot of problems! Stopped for days with the torch on my hand, had to click on every imaginable button during the cut scene to move along with the game. What a nightmare!
  19. Nikitry
    Oct 5, 2020
    4
    Очень забагованная, кривое управление, слабый сюжет!
    Игра к сожалению утратила свою атмосферу и шарм, в ней уже не чувствуешь себя как в первых двух частях. Увы
  20. Eygam
    Nov 21, 2021
    2
    I am not going to lie, I disliked this game very much. I loved the first one and I think the second one was decent but what on Earth happened here?

    The clunky interface was annoying but I don't think there would be a better way on a console, except when you could turn or slide something, those parts were terrible. I generally don't care about grphics and I don't mind outdated but some    I am not going to lie, I disliked this game very much. I loved the first one and I think the second one was decent but what on Earth happened here?

    The clunky interface was annoying but I don't think there would be a better way on a console, except when you could turn or slide something, those parts were terrible. I generally don't care about grphics and I don't mind outdated but some moments really hit the uncanny valley due to weird models and animations of faces. The few actions scenes are also rather ridiculous because the animation just doesn't work with more complex movements.

    Many of the areas are GIANT but almost empty or have several points of interest far away from each other. There are many loading screens (and running from one side to the other) but I luckily switched to PS5 for the second part of the game and I think they were much shorter then.

    Voiceacting was good for the main characters and absolutely aweful with some minor roles. Especially one guy has a voiceactor who sounds some 20-30 years younger and it was really weird.

    Puzzles were okay and mostly fun, not terribly challenging. I usually got stuck on missing a component or an item rather than not knowing what to do. As a matter of fact, I sometimes knew exactly what i need to do and then just couldn't find that one item or character. It didn't help that camera positiong tended to be weird or not follow Kate the same way every time so it got confusing sometimes.

    In any case, the worst part was the story, which was ridiculous. I never really cought why everyone is after Kate and the Yukols, except for "these guy are evil so they do evil stuff". Maybe it was said and I forgot but I don't see why the bad guys cared about Kate in the first place. The lengths they go into in order to catch them are pretty weird, especially as they get absolutely nothing from it (they really do it just for the evulz).

    Yukols are extremely annoying and somewhat offensive, I don't think they are a reference to a particular culture but I felt like they are a bizarre take on the noble savage trope, only here they are not just noble but also supposedly so pure they become cute (but they actually come across as incredibly dumb and like an attempt for "natural" culture that makes any indigenous people seem kinda funny and ridiculous). There was always an underlying theme of nostalgia and modernity meeting tradition in the series but they really throw it directly in your face all the time here. You also learn significantly less about the tribe compared to previous games, even though they keep babbling to you about traditional way of life without a stop.

    There were definitely some bugs on PS4 even now. Several times, the interaction prompt stopped popping up for something but it was usually fine after I interacted with something else. Still annoying though and I had to load once but didn't really lose much progress.

    There is only automatic saving, when you leave the game you will go back to the last time the game saved. The game saves fairly often but I still lost some progress every time and had to redo things.

    All in all, this was not a great experience. Puzzles took time not because of difficulty but clunky interface and easily overlooked components. The story is weird and most characters unlikeable (I really liked only the Watcher at the end, which is basically a one-scene wonder). The game absolutely did not bring back the atmpsphere of the previous games (although it was mostly gone by S2 I guess).    … Expand
  21. Vazquinhos
    Jan 28, 2023
    3
    I have played the ps4 version on ps5. The shading is totally broken. I have had multiple bugs that made me load a previous save game.

    Entering on the view of the metro map didnt allow me to exit. The torch was stuck on my hand and Óscar was unable to go outside. The control is totally broken, when you change camera view the control doesnt restart so Kate starts going to other directions.    I have played the ps4 version on ps5. The shading is totally broken. I have had multiple bugs that made me load a previous save game.

    Entering on the view of the metro map didnt allow me to exit.
    The torch was stuck on my hand and Óscar was unable to go outside.
    The control is totally broken, when you change camera view the control doesnt restart so Kate starts going to other directions.

    I am enjoying the Game but is really hard to follow with the current state if the game.

    I would really hope that some day Microids does a patch.    … Expand

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Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 18
  3. Negative: 7 out of 18
  1. games(TM)
    Jun 23, 2017
    20
    Getting to the handful of good puzzles Syberia 3 has isn't worth it for all the rubbish you'll have to wade through. This is a jittery, stuttering, mess of a videogame. [Issue#188, p.80]
  2. Games Master UK
    Jun 22, 2017
    42
    Other [puzzlers], unfortunately, rely on easily-missed collectibles or suffer from a lack of explanation. Combine all this with terrible acting(not helped by the script), technical flaws (including a consistently awful frame rate and occasional clipping), and a boring script, and you'll find that Syberia 3 leaves you cold. [July 2017, p.83]
  3. God is a Geek
    May 11, 2017
    50
    Syberia 3 isn’t a bad game by any means and offers up an immersive story… If you can make it past the horrific graphical hindrances that is.
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