Asgard's Fall: Origins

Item: Asgard's Fall: Origins
Rating: 75
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-06-28

Summary

Engaging gameplay and aesthetics are highly praised
Repetitive with limited content and variety
Uninspired skill system and unrewarding upgrades
Poor difficulty scaling and excessive grind
Promising roguelike experience, but generic clone
Technical issues and obscuring visual effects

Emotions

Satisfaction29%Disappointment13%Frustration13%Excitement11%Anticipation8%

Reviews (sample size): 452
Helpful reviews: 71%
Unhelpful reviews: 29%
Protest reviews: 0%

75%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
25%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 609
Negative points: 553
Gameplay points: 179
Perf. points: 11
Rec. points: 164
Misc points: 116

Point	Description	Importance
Engaging Gameplay & Aesthetics Description The game offers a highly enjoyable and addictive experience, praised for its engaging gameplay, beautiful pixel art style, and satisfying sound design. It is considered a polished and promising title, even in early access. Importance 95%	The game offers a highly enjoyable and addictive experience, praised for its engaging gameplay, beautiful pixel art style, and satisfying sound design. It is considered a polished and promising title, even in early access.	95%
Rewarding Progression System Description Players appreciate the well-implemented leveling system, meta-progression, and diverse skill trees. This system allows for strategic choices, build flexibility, easy resets, and encourages continued play. Importance 23%	Players appreciate the well-implemented leveling system, meta-progression, and diverse skill trees. This system allows for strategic choices, build flexibility, easy resets, and encourages continued play.	23%
Fresh Roguelike Experience Description The game is highly regarded as a strong entry in the roguelike/bullet-heaven genre, often compared favorably to Vampire Survivors. Its unique Norse mythology theme and engaging mechanics offer a fresh take on the genre. Importance 19%	The game is highly regarded as a strong entry in the roguelike/bullet-heaven genre, often compared favorably to Vampire Survivors. Its unique Norse mythology theme and engaging mechanics offer a fresh take on the genre.	19%
Dynamic Difficulty & Enemies Description The game features well-designed enemies and customizable difficulty settings, providing a challenging yet manageable experience. Players particularly enjoy the distinct boss patterns and clear visual cues for stronger enemies. Importance 15%	The game features well-designed enemies and customizable difficulty settings, providing a challenging yet manageable experience. Players particularly enjoy the distinct boss patterns and clear visual cues for stronger enemies.	15%
Diverse & Effective Builds Description Players appreciate the variety of viable builds and weapons, allowing for diverse playstyles. While some builds, like the physical bleed, are noted for being very powerful, they contribute to satisfying monster clearing. Importance 11%	Players appreciate the variety of viable builds and weapons, allowing for diverse playstyles. While some builds, like the physical bleed, are noted for being very powerful, they contribute to satisfying monster clearing.	11%
Varied Elemental Abilities Description The game's diverse elemental abilities are praised for their fun factor, strategic depth, and harmonious sound effects. The limited number of abilities ensures strategic choices without making the player overpowered. Importance 7%	The game's diverse elemental abilities are praised for their fun factor, strategic depth, and harmonious sound effects. The limited number of abilities ensures strategic choices without making the player overpowered.	7%
Promising Demo Experience Description The game's demo version left a strong positive impression, showcasing significant variety, replayability, and clear potential for the full game. It was considered well-made even in its early state. Importance 6%	The game's demo version left a strong positive impression, showcasing significant variety, replayability, and clear potential for the full game. It was considered well-made even in its early state.	6%
Commendable Developer Support Description Reviewers praise the developers for their continuous efforts in improving the game, moving away from beta versions, and showing promising future developments. The provision of a free version is also highly appreciated. Importance 6%	Reviewers praise the developers for their continuous efforts in improving the game, moving away from beta versions, and showing promising future developments. The provision of a free version is also highly appreciated.	6%
Simple, Intuitive Controls Description The game is praised for its straightforward and easy-to-understand controls, making it highly accessible for new players and allowing for effortless execution of combos. Importance 5%	The game is praised for its straightforward and easy-to-understand controls, making it highly accessible for new players and allowing for effortless execution of combos.	5%
Fast-Paced, Engaging Combat Description Combat is described as dynamic and requiring player attention, providing a satisfying 'just one more match' feeling. This fast-paced nature significantly contributes to the overall enjoyment. Importance 5%	Combat is described as dynamic and requiring player attention, providing a satisfying 'just one more match' feeling. This fast-paced nature significantly contributes to the overall enjoyment.	5%
Significant Post-Update Improvements Description Recent updates have notably enhanced the game, introducing redesigned skill upgrades, more engaging combat mechanics with skill linking, and improved experience gain, demonstrating active development. Importance 5%	Recent updates have notably enhanced the game, introducing redesigned skill upgrades, more engaging combat mechanics with skill linking, and improved experience gain, demonstrating active development.	5%
Satisfying Attack Feedback Description Players find the visual and tactile feedback from physical attacks and weapon effects to be very satisfying. The cool appearance of attacks enhances the overall combat experience. Importance 5%	Players find the visual and tactile feedback from physical attacks and weapon effects to be very satisfying. The cool appearance of attacks enhances the overall combat experience.	5%