Back To Ashes

Item: Back To Ashes
Rating: 72
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-08-30

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Summary

Engaging gameplay with strong Souls-like inspiration
Well-designed bosses and enemies
Responsive solo developer
Clunky and unresponsive combat
Poor controls and movement
Camera issues and excessive darkness

Emotions

Satisfaction23%Frustration16%Disappointment15%Excitement12%Appreciation11%

Reviews (sample size): 102
Helpful reviews: 94%
Unhelpful reviews: 6%
Protest reviews: 0%

72%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
28%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 385
Negative points: 295
Gameplay points: 110
Perf. points: 10
Rec. points: 102
Misc points: 64

Point	Description	Importance
Engaging Gameplay & Value Description Players find the core gameplay loop highly enjoyable, addictive, and rewarding, offering significant content for its low price. The game provides a balanced challenge without excessive frustration, featuring solid combat, good level design, and a satisfying loot system. Importance 99%	Players find the core gameplay loop highly enjoyable, addictive, and rewarding, offering significant content for its low price. The game provides a balanced challenge without excessive frustration, featuring solid combat, good level design, and a satisfying loot system.	99%
Strong Souls-like Inspiration Description The game successfully captures the essence of classic Dark Souls and Demon's Souls, delivering a dark, challenging, and nostalgic experience. It blends this with Diablo-style looting, creating a unique and well-executed take on the genre. Importance 62%	The game successfully captures the essence of classic Dark Souls and Demon's Souls, delivering a dark, challenging, and nostalgic experience. It blends this with Diablo-style looting, creating a unique and well-executed take on the genre.	62%
Responsive Solo Developer Description Players are highly impressed by the game's quality and scope, especially considering it's a one-person project. The developer is praised for being very responsive, quickly addressing issues, and consistently updating and improving the game. Importance 41%	Players are highly impressed by the game's quality and scope, especially considering it's a one-person project. The developer is praised for being very responsive, quickly addressing issues, and consistently updating and improving the game.	41%
Well-Designed Bosses & Enemies Description The game features a great variety of tough but fair bosses and enemies with interesting mechanics. Boss fights are challenging, rewarding, and often repeatable, contributing to the game's overall difficulty balance. Importance 30%	The game features a great variety of tough but fair bosses and enemies with interesting mechanics. Boss fights are challenging, rewarding, and often repeatable, contributing to the game's overall difficulty balance.	30%
Expansive World & Exploration Description The game's world opens up significantly after initial areas, offering large, varied zones with different enemy types and rewarding exploration. The level design is praised for being well-thought-out, consistent, and full of hidden treasures. Importance 28%	The game's world opens up significantly after initial areas, offering large, varied zones with different enemy types and rewarding exploration. The level design is praised for being well-thought-out, consistent, and full of hidden treasures.	28%
Decent Story & Lore Description The game's story and lore are considered good or at least adequate, providing context and enhancing the overall experience. Players appreciate the presence of a plot, dialogues, and an engaging narrative. Importance 12%	The game's story and lore are considered good or at least adequate, providing context and enhancing the overall experience. Players appreciate the presence of a plot, dialogues, and an engaging narrative.	12%
Atmospheric & Visually Appealing Description The game boasts a solid atmosphere, good graphics that fit its dark fantasy style, and an immersive aesthetic. The environments, music, and overall look contribute positively to the player experience. Importance 11%	The game boasts a solid atmosphere, good graphics that fit its dark fantasy style, and an immersive aesthetic. The environments, music, and overall look contribute positively to the player experience.	11%

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