Operencia: The Stolen Sun

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  • Summary: Operencia: The Stolen Sun embraces everything you love about classic first-person dungeon-crawlers, enhancing the old-school turn-based RPG experience with modern sensibilities. Gather your team of memorable characters and guide them through a world inspired by Central European mythology,Operencia: The Stolen Sun embraces everything you love about classic first-person dungeon-crawlers, enhancing the old-school turn-based RPG experience with modern sensibilities. Gather your team of memorable characters and guide them through a world inspired by Central European mythology, where history meets legend. Unreal Engine 4 powers breathtaking environments, from traditional tombs and dungeons to enchanted castles and a forest made of copper. … Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. Gaming Nexus
    Mar 27, 2020
    90
    Zen Studios new dungeon crawler takes the tropes of an oft neglected genre, and updates them with wit and style. Operencia: The Stolen Sun oozes charm, with the perfect balance of combat, exploration, puzzles, and funny bantering characters. This game is a complete winner, and any fan of dungeon crawlers shouldn’t hesitate to pick it up.
  2. NintendoWorldReport
    Mar 27, 2020
    85
    Operencia differs from a lot of the dungeon crawlers on Switch: it’s more of a low fantasy story, and its fixed story and chapters helps to differentiate it from the dozens of roguelikes and roguelites we’ve seen in the past few years. For that alone, Operencia: The Stolen Sun is worth a long look.
  3. Nintendo Life
    Mar 29, 2020
    80
    Operencia: The Stolen Sun is a mostly excellent first person, grid-based dungeon crawler that's brought brilliantly to life via an engaging story, fun cast of characters and some well-designed and hugely atmospheric dungeons. Combat here is satisfying and puzzles, for the most part, land just on the right side of challenging. If you're looking for a meaty old-school dungeon-crawling adventure with a ton of secrets and treasures to find as you make your way across its world, this one comes as a nice surprise and is highly recommended.
  4. Eurogamer Italy
    Mar 28, 2020
    80
    An excellent first-person dungeon crawler that will bring back your old-school memories of games like Dungeon Master and Eye of theBeholder.
  5. Pure Nintendo
    Apr 7, 2020
    80
    To do today: get up, brush teeth, follow strange dream about a deer and head off to the cursed castle to see what happens. Sounds like a plan, so what could possibly go wrong? Well, we all know the answer to that question, don’t we? In Operencia, you take off on a journey of exploration, adventure, and heroic deeds—not to mention monsters and mayhem. If you enjoy turn based RPGs, this one is worth checking out.
  6. Switch Player
    May 26, 2020
    80
    Operencia: The Stolen Sun is the best example of a grid-based dungeon crawler on the Switch right now. Despite some fiddly controls on this port, the solid combat, exploration, puzzling, and strong writing make it a hefty recommendation for genre fans.
  7. God is a Geek
    Mar 27, 2020
    70
    Operencia: The Stolden Sun is a decent slice of adventuring fun that feels like a bit of a weird fit for the Switch but functions well on Nintendo’s console nevertheless, and often feels unique, though rarely essential.

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  1. DeepspaceAU
    Sep 15, 2020
    10
    Brilliant new-school blobber. Great levels and fantastic voice acting from the characters. Just get this if you are remotely into dungeonBrilliant new-school blobber. Great levels and fantastic voice acting from the characters. Just get this if you are remotely into dungeon crawlers such as Legend of Grimrock, Eye of the Beholder, Dungeon Master, Moonshades etc.… Expand
  2. Tiltedsail
    Apr 8, 2020
    10
    Excellent old school RPG with great visual design. I played it on Xbox first and then bought it again on Switch to play handheld.Excellent old school RPG with great visual design. I played it on Xbox first and then bought it again on Switch to play handheld. Performance has been great on Switch. Such an excellent title. On caveat: the beginning of the game for the first 20 min is not as good as the rest of the game. I realize it is hard to onboard people and provide a exciting tutorial, but once the player gets to the actual dungeon the game shines. Reminds me of a 2020 version of Wizardry and Bards Tale in some ways and really hope Zen makes a sequel as we need more great DRPGs in the world. Thank you for making this game!… Expand
  4. Nevermber
    Apr 18, 2020
    8
    Cool RPG. There are several bugs, not always convenient controls, but playing is very interesting.

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