Zoria: Age of Shattering
Last updated: 2025-02-22
- Engaging story and immersive game world.
- Enjoyable and polished tactical combat.
- Nostalgic, classic RPG feel.
- Appealing and distinct visual style.
- Unpolished, buggy, and incomplete experience.
- Shallow character customization/progression.
- Reviews
(sample size) - 465
- Helpful reviews
- 88%
- Unhelpful reviews
- 12%
- Protest reviews
- 1%
- 70%Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
- 30%Helpful reviews with negative sentiment
- Positive points
- 909
- Negative points
- 1057
- Gameplay points
- 411
- Perf. points
- 66
- Rec. points
- 349
- Misc points
- 78
| Point | Description | Importance |
|---|---|---|
| Engaging story and immersive world | The game features an engaging story, rich lore, and immersive world-building, enhanced by well-written dialogue and voice acting. The narrative is compelling and keeps players invested, with a plot that unfolds gradually and becomes increasingly focused as the game progresses. The world feels alive and well-defined, encouraging exploration and discovery. | 95% |
| Enjoyable and polished tactical combat | The game offers enjoyable, fast-paced, and intuitive turn-based combat with a good level of tactical depth. Battles require strategic planning and utilization of character abilities, providing a satisfying and engaging combat experience. The combat system is polished and relatively bug-free. | 87% |
| Nostalgic, classic RPG feel | The game evokes nostalgia for classic RPGs like Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights, capturing the feel of old-school adventures. It successfully blends familiar RPG elements with refreshing innovations, providing a unique yet comfortable experience for fans of the genre. The game emphasizes combat and looting, similar to older titles. | 79% |
| Appealing and distinct visual style | The game has appealing graphics and a distinct art style that enhances the overall experience. The visuals are well-done, with impressive special effects and world-building. The absence of overwhelming visual effects allows the game's clear graphics to shine. | 71% |
| Enjoyable and worth the price | The game is enjoyable and worth its price, offering a substantial amount of content and a refreshing experience. Many reviewers found the game addictive and fun, especially after getting past the initial learning curve. The game's imperfections add to its charm. | 35% |
| Diverse classes and customization | The game offers a wide variety of character classes and companions, allowing for extensive customization and strategic team composition. The skill tree and progression system are robust, with easy respec options, enabling players to experiment with different builds and playstyles. Both balanced and stacked class compositions are viable. | 22% |
| Extensive crafting and resource systems | The game features extensive crafting, alchemy, and cooking systems that add depth to the gameplay loop. Players can gather resources, experiment with recipes, and create customized sets to enhance their characters' abilities. The inventory system is well-designed, making it easy to manage resources and craft items. | 20% |
| Engaging base-building mechanics | The game features a base-building mechanic at the outpost, adding depth to the gameplay loop. Upgrading the outpost unlocks various facilities, mercenaries, recipes, and schematics, providing tangible rewards and enhancing the player's sense of progression. The outpost mechanics and missions are a highlight. | 17% |
| Well-balanced difficulty options | The game offers a well-balanced difficulty with multiple levels, catering to both beginners and veterans. The difficulty can be adjusted at any time, allowing players to customize their experience. On normal difficulty, the game provides a fair challenge without being overly frustrating. | 11% |
| Responsive and supportive developers | The developers are responsive and actively engaged with the community, providing excellent support and addressing issues quickly. They are dedicated to fixing bugs and listening to feedback, showing they care about the game and its players. The developers are friendly and helpful. | 9% |
| Impressive for a small team | The game is impressive considering it was developed by a small team of only three people. The developers have put a lot of love and effort into the game, creating a high-quality experience that surpasses expectations for an indie title. The game punches well above its weight. | 9% |
| Unique charm and refreshing experience | Zoria has its own charm and direction, offering a refreshing and deep experience that merges tactical RPG and keep/team management elements. The world of Zoria is rich with lore that gradually unfolds as the player progresses. The reviewer had an overwhelmingly positive experience with the game. | 5% |