Risen
Last updated: 2025-03-22
- 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.
- 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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% |