Risen

Item: Risen
Rating: 80
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-03-22

Summary

Immersive RPG experience with a captivating story.
Detailed world encourages extensive exploration.
Meaningful choices offer high replayability.
Excellent atmosphere, sound, and graphics.
Numerous game-breaking bugs are present.
Clunky combat system detracts from gameplay.

Categories

RPG Open-World Exploration Character Progression Choice-based Narrative Multiple Endings Crafting Real-time Combat Single-player Story

Reviews (sample size): 829
Helpful reviews: 70%
Unhelpful reviews: 29%
Protest reviews: 0%

80%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
20%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 1456
Negative points: 1054
Gameplay points: 339
Perf. points: 85
Rec. points: 469
Misc points: 104

Point	Description	Importance
Immersive, captivating, classic RPG experience Description The game offers an immersive and captivating experience with a well-crafted world, engaging story, and rewarding exploration. Many reviewers express nostalgia and consider it a classic RPG, praising its atmosphere and unique charm, even years after its release. The game successfully captures the spirit of older RPGs while providing a compelling and enjoyable adventure. Importance 96%	The game offers an immersive and captivating experience with a well-crafted world, engaging story, and rewarding exploration. Many reviewers express nostalgia and consider it a classic RPG, praising its atmosphere and unique charm, even years after its release. The game successfully captures the spirit of older RPGs while providing a compelling and enjoyable adventure.	96%
Detailed world encourages exploration Description The game world is detailed, inviting exploration with secrets, surprises, and hidden rewards. The island setting is well-designed, with diverse locations and a sense of discovery. Despite not being particularly large, the world is dense and rewarding to explore. Importance 73%	The game world is detailed, inviting exploration with secrets, surprises, and hidden rewards. The island setting is well-designed, with diverse locations and a sense of discovery. Despite not being particularly large, the world is dense and rewarding to explore.	73%
Meaningful choices, high replayability Description The game offers meaningful choices, non-linear gameplay, and a high degree of freedom in exploring the world and interacting with factions. Player actions have a noticeable impact on the game world, creating a sense of change. The game offers high replayability, encouraging multiple playthroughs to explore different builds, decisions, and factions. Importance 72%	The game offers meaningful choices, non-linear gameplay, and a high degree of freedom in exploring the world and interacting with factions. Player actions have a noticeable impact on the game world, creating a sense of change. The game offers high replayability, encouraging multiple playthroughs to explore different builds, decisions, and factions.	72%
Engaging story, interesting quests Description The game features an engaging story with interesting quests, well-developed characters, and humorous dialogues. Quests are intricately woven together, with multiple solutions and characters involved in multiple quests, creating a sense of connection. The plot is well-suited for a high degree of freedom, with a narrative structure that is accessible to most RPG fans. Importance 69%	The game features an engaging story with interesting quests, well-developed characters, and humorous dialogues. Quests are intricately woven together, with multiple solutions and characters involved in multiple quests, creating a sense of connection. The plot is well-suited for a high degree of freedom, with a narrative structure that is accessible to most RPG fans.	69%
Excellent atmosphere, sound, and graphics Description The game features appealing graphics, excellent sound design, and a captivating atmosphere. The soundtrack is well-integrated, enhancing the immersive experience and creating a sense of place. The game's atmosphere is immersive and captivating. Importance 65%	The game features appealing graphics, excellent sound design, and a captivating atmosphere. The soundtrack is well-integrated, enhancing the immersive experience and creating a sense of place. The game's atmosphere is immersive and captivating.	65%
Well-developed characters, great voice-acting Description The game features well-developed and voiced characters, with many reviewers praising the quality of the voice acting. The dialogues are entertaining and humorous, adding to the overall enjoyment of the game. The voice acting is well-done, with familiar voices and professional delivery. Importance 12%	The game features well-developed and voiced characters, with many reviewers praising the quality of the voice acting. The dialogues are entertaining and humorous, adding to the overall enjoyment of the game. The voice acting is well-done, with familiar voices and professional delivery.	12%