Dragonkin: The Banished

Item: Dragonkin: The Banished
Rating: 55
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-09-27

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Summary

Refreshing ARPG experience with innovative skill system
Strong visuals and good performance on high-end PCs
Accessible game with promising early access state
Unpolished and incomplete, lacking content
Poor loot and progression, repetitive endgame
Tedious early game and excessive map traversal

Emotions

Frustration20%Satisfaction20%Disappointment17%Hope11%Excitement8%

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154

62%

38%

566

55%

45%

Reviews (sample size): 711
Helpful reviews: 80%
Unhelpful reviews: 19%
Protest reviews: 1%

55%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
45%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 1338
Negative points: 1753
Gameplay points: 464
Perf. points: 76
Rec. points: 365
Misc points: 376

Point	Description	Importance
Refreshing ARPG Experience Description Players find the game to be a refreshing and innovative take on the ARPG genre, offering unique mechanics and a solid foundation that rivals established titles like Diablo and Last Epoch. It provides a fun and engaging experience with a good core gameplay loop. Importance 99%	Players find the game to be a refreshing and innovative take on the ARPG genre, offering unique mechanics and a solid foundation that rivals established titles like Diablo and Last Epoch. It provides a fun and engaging experience with a good core gameplay loop.	99%
Innovative Skill System Description The game's hexagonal skill grid system, often referred to as the 'Ancestral Grid,' is highly praised for its inventiveness, depth, and customization options. It allows for diverse builds, impactful skill modifiers, and encourages experimentation, setting it apart from traditional ARPG skill trees. Importance 43%	The game's hexagonal skill grid system, often referred to as the 'Ancestral Grid,' is highly praised for its inventiveness, depth, and customization options. It allows for diverse builds, impactful skill modifiers, and encourages experimentation, setting it apart from traditional ARPG skill trees.	43%
Strong Visuals and Performance Description Reviewers consistently highlight the game's excellent graphics, detailed environments, and stunning panoramas. Furthermore, the game is noted for its strong optimization, running smoothly with few bugs or crashes, even on lower-end machines, which is impressive for an Early Access title. Importance 36%	Reviewers consistently highlight the game's excellent graphics, detailed environments, and stunning panoramas. Furthermore, the game is noted for its strong optimization, running smoothly with few bugs or crashes, even on lower-end machines, which is impressive for an Early Access title.	36%
Accessible and Good Value Description The game is considered very accessible for new players, with an easy-to-understand interface, helpful in-game guides, and straightforward controls. Its price point is frequently mentioned as excellent value, offering many hours of enjoyable gameplay for a reasonable cost. Importance 35%	The game is considered very accessible for new players, with an easy-to-understand interface, helpful in-game guides, and straightforward controls. Its price point is frequently mentioned as excellent value, offering many hours of enjoyable gameplay for a reasonable cost.	35%
Promising Early Access State Description Despite being in Early Access, the game is stable, polished, and already offers a significant amount of content. Players see immense potential for future growth and improvement, expressing confidence in the developers' commitment and roadmap. Importance 22%	Despite being in Early Access, the game is stable, polished, and already offers a significant amount of content. Players see immense potential for future growth and improvement, expressing confidence in the developers' commitment and roadmap.	22%
Unique City Building Mechanic Description The game features an interesting city-building system where players can upgrade and customize their city. This system provides global bonuses, unlocks new features, and offers an additional layer of progression that benefits all characters. Importance 17%	The game features an interesting city-building system where players can upgrade and customize their city. This system provides global bonuses, unlocks new features, and offers an additional layer of progression that benefits all characters.	17%
Responsive and Active Developers Description The development team is highly praised for their active communication, responsiveness to feedback, and frequent updates. Players appreciate their commitment to improving the game and addressing issues promptly, fostering confidence in the game's future. Importance 14%	The development team is highly praised for their active communication, responsiveness to feedback, and frequent updates. Players appreciate their commitment to improving the game and addressing issues promptly, fostering confidence in the game's future.	14%
Flexible Difficulty and Loot Description The game allows players to adjust difficulty settings per quest or in town, directly impacting loot quality and XP gains. This system provides a customizable challenge and makes loot drops feel rewarding without being excessive, especially after reaching higher levels. Importance 11%	The game allows players to adjust difficulty settings per quest or in town, directly impacting loot quality and XP gains. This system provides a customizable challenge and makes loot drops feel rewarding without being excessive, especially after reaching higher levels.	11%
Engaging Combat System Description Combat is described as dynamic, fluid, impactful, and satisfying, with good feedback from killing enemies. The skill effects and overall orchestration of battles contribute to a thrilling and enjoyable combat experience. Importance 10%	Combat is described as dynamic, fluid, impactful, and satisfying, with good feedback from killing enemies. The skill effects and overall orchestration of battles contribute to a thrilling and enjoyable combat experience.	10%
Engaging Prologue and Tutorial Description The game's prologue serves as an excellent introduction, allowing players to test different classes and experience high-level gameplay with customized skills. It effectively demonstrates character potential and provides a good understanding of game mechanics. Importance 10%	The game's prologue serves as an excellent introduction, allowing players to test different classes and experience high-level gameplay with customized skills. It effectively demonstrates character potential and provides a good understanding of game mechanics.	10%
Well-Crafted Story and Lore Description The game's story is described as enjoyable, immersive, and well-paced, with a solid foundation for future development. Reviewers appreciate the unique narrative and high production values, which contribute to an engaging world. Importance 8%	The game's story is described as enjoyable, immersive, and well-paced, with a solid foundation for future development. Reviewers appreciate the unique narrative and high production values, which contribute to an engaging world.	8%
Interesting Wyrmling Companion Description The Wyrmling companion system is a unique and imaginative feature. The Wyrmling levels up with the player, has its own talent tree, and can be customized with different elemental affinities and skills, adding strategic depth to combat and build synergy. Importance 8%	The Wyrmling companion system is a unique and imaginative feature. The Wyrmling levels up with the player, has its own talent tree, and can be customized with different elemental affinities and skills, adding strategic depth to combat and build synergy.	8%
Large and Varied Maps Description The game features magnificent, huge, and varied maps that offer ample opportunities for exploration. These hand-crafted environments are visually stunning and contribute to an immersive experience, guiding players through the storyline. Importance 6%	The game features magnificent, huge, and varied maps that offer ample opportunities for exploration. These hand-crafted environments are visually stunning and contribute to an immersive experience, guiding players through the storyline.	6%

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