Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance

 PlayStation 5
User Score
3.4

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 38 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 38
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 38
  3. Negative: 25 out of 38
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  1. Thung_Hung56
    Jun 25, 2021
    6
    I honestly was very excited about the game, but It was a huge disappointment. I rather play shadow over Mystara than this. Could not finish because the game is laggy and buggy. Even playing coop feels boring for me. The combat feels dull and there is no enemy variety. Do not waste your time playing this.
  2. Fursnake
    Jun 28, 2021
    5
    Played this game on the PC via Xbox Game Pass, got the intro $1 for the first month deal and I am glad i didn't buy this game. Frankly it is a letdown and as janky as I suspected it would be. This is a hack and slash looter with D&D slapped onto it. It is nothing like playing actual D&D. The story is good, but that's about it. The gameplay is decent in terms of a hack and slash looter, butPlayed this game on the PC via Xbox Game Pass, got the intro $1 for the first month deal and I am glad i didn't buy this game. Frankly it is a letdown and as janky as I suspected it would be. This is a hack and slash looter with D&D slapped onto it. It is nothing like playing actual D&D. The story is good, but that's about it. The gameplay is decent in terms of a hack and slash looter, but the combat feels clunky and suffers from a horrendous amount of animation locks. The camera angle for the lock on feature is awkward and awful. Movement feels slightly floaty and I could see where if you stop moving your character slides very slowly in the direction you were last moving. The layout of the level designs is ok, rewarding you for the bit of exploring you can do in each level. However, the areas start to look fairly repetitive. The hub design is boring as can be and completely empty of any characters aside from one annoying merchant. The visuals of the gameworld area decent, but the character models are ugly as hell. Not one of the iconic characters looks that iconic to me, just bland generic appearances. The voice over work is decent at least. The enemies start to get repetitive after a bit. The loot system is ok, but nothing special or interesting. The character upgrade system is also ok, but nothing special. The Ai is just the worst, it is the only thing that makes the single player combat tolerable, most enemies just stand there and seem to debate if they are going to do anything or not. If they ganged up on you all at once it would be much more frustrating with all the animation locks going on. But still the Ai seems piss poor at best.

    Co-op lessens the dull gameplay a bit in the fact that you have more people to share in the dull, bland gameplay. Co-op just ends up being more bullet-spongey enemies. The difficulty levels are not balanced, moving from the base tier to the next tier feels unnecessarily difficult.

    Overall I wouldn't buy this game, it feels slapped together with the most minimal of effort to polish it or make something that was a positive experience. i am done with the game before my first week of Xbox Game Pass has passed.    … Expand
  3. SuperkenGaming
    Jun 30, 2021
    7
    Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliance
    a Mind of its own
    Dark Alliance is an 8 hour long 3rdperson dungeon crawler that can be layed both solo as well as online with up to 4 players, hre you choose one of 4 classes that can be changed in between every mission… youll be running through thse dungeons, taking down enmies, and every once in a while you will gt the coice, set up camp here and    Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliance
    a Mind of its own
    Dark Alliance is an 8 hour long 3rdperson dungeon crawler that can be layed both solo as well as online with up to 4 players, hre you choose one of 4 classes that can be changed in between every mission… youll be running through thse dungeons, taking down enmies, and every once in a while you will gt the coice, set up camp here and regain all ehalth and consumables… and if you die this will be your spawn point, butif you decline to set up camp, the rarity of the loot in this dungeon increases… really having you carfully test your skill and confidence… I played with the more quick bladed assassin as well as the archer, going back and forth each mission so that I didn’t get bred of this game, and I feel this is the best way to play through dark alliance because pof how repettitve it ultimately is, from start to finish its all the same, do this 15- 20 minute long mission, finding chests, defeating enemies if you so choose, to get tp that levels boss and take it down… I was havig an absolte blast most of the time… there are definitely some challenging momnts here, especially from a ouple of its bosses.. and by I couple, I literally mean a couple as for the most part, the ai in dark alliance is awful, they aren’t alive ready foraction, they stand there, waiting to be triggered, which can lead to tons of lack luster fights.. even some bosses will just stand there to die, putting up no fight playing solo… gameplay wise though the combat can be thrilling with each charater feeling vastly different, but my biggest announce with the gameplay is that at least on the playstation 5, the game seemed to have a mind of its own, input combat commands by itself when id try to run or even mid battle… at the nd of each mission youll be given your loot and this is another issue I have with this game.. the loot is just awful here.. ypou don’t get a feeling of what cool item did I escape with, all of it is lack luster and lame, really killing incentive to explore, I was just rushing through these dungeons slaying these brain dead bosses, with only 2 or 3 really fighting back and giving me a challenge…
    Overall, I enjoyed Dark alliance, is it game of the year contender? Not even close, but its nowhere near as bad as most are making it seem, its worth running through and playing by yourself or with friends, but there sadly is no life, in the form of content or loot to keep you playing beyond the final boss…
    I give Dungeons and Dragons Dark alliance
    a 6.5/10    … Expand
  4. PMG-Writer
    Aug 7, 2021
    7
    Thus, "Dungeons & Dragons Dark Alliance" is a lot of fun on its own and in a group. The ideas and variety in the game are there. Thus, the plot can only entertain nicely and some errors are also annoying. But in return, the graphics and the battle system can be seen. If you want to fight through the varied dungeons with your friends or alone, you should take a look at "Dungeons & DragonsThus, "Dungeons & Dragons Dark Alliance" is a lot of fun on its own and in a group. The ideas and variety in the game are there. Thus, the plot can only entertain nicely and some errors are also annoying. But in return, the graphics and the battle system can be seen. If you want to fight through the varied dungeons with your friends or alone, you should take a look at "Dungeons & Dragons Dark Alliance".… Expand
  5. Fausthor
    Dec 9, 2022
    6
    The game is severely broken, there are a lot of problems with enemy AI. I love D&D, and I love the Icewind Dale characters and lore, but man this game makes it difficult even for the hardcore fan.

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57

Mixed or average reviews - based on 26 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 20 out of 26
  3. Negative: 4 out of 26
  1. GamePro Germany
    Sep 15, 2021
    64
    Shallow co-op brawler with heroes of D&D novels. Its strong points cannot unfold due to poor AI and lack of fine-tuning.
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  2. GameCritics
    Sep 14, 2021
    35
    With so many great cooperative experiences already out there, it’s impossible to recommend Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance — it shows little promise from the start, and somehow only gets worse as time goes on. This is one quest that even the bravest warriors would be wise to avoid.
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  3. PLAY! Zine
    Sep 9, 2021
    40
    Dark Alliance is riddled with fundamental errors with its non-functioning AI, lackluster loot game, and terrible camera. It is flooded with good ideas that seem awfully unfinished, badly designed and implemented that draw it downwards to being another trash looter hack ‘n’ slash game with a potential for a bit more greatness if it had more time invested in it.
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