Last Epoch
Last updated: 2025-03-15
- Deep character building with extensive customization options.
- Visually appealing graphics and great sound design.
- Engaging content and rewarding gameplay loop.
- Excellent itemization and crafting system.
- Weak, confusing, and uninspired story.
- Persistent server and connection issues.
- Reviews
(sample size) - 2000
- Helpful reviews
- 89%
- Unhelpful reviews
- 9%
- Protest reviews
- 3%
- 71%Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
- 29%Helpful reviews with negative sentiment
- Positive points
- 6704
- Negative points
- 5755
- Gameplay points
- 1467
- Perf. points
- 672
- Rec. points
- 2280
- Misc points
- 566
| Point | Description | Importance |
|---|---|---|
| Deep, customizable character building | The game features a deep and customizable character building system with skill trees and specializations. Players can experiment with different builds and playstyles, with respec options available. The game offers a satisfying sense of progression and power. | 96% |
| Extensive build variety, customization | The game offers a wide variety of builds due to its classes, ascendancies, and extensive passive trees. The skill system is a strong point, with skill trees allowing for significant buffing or playstyle alterations. The game allows for experimentation and easy build creation and respeccing. | 87% |
| Visually appealing, great sound design | The game has decent graphics, a lovely art style, and nice environments. Visual and sound design contribute to an impactful and satisfying gameplay experience. The game world is well-designed, colorful, and varied, fostering exploration and making the experience more enjoyable. | 70% |
| Engaging content, rewarding gameplay | The game offers engaging content across various stages, including starting, mid-game, and end-game experiences. Reviewers praise the combat, character progression, and story elements. The game generally respects the player's time, avoiding excessive grind and offering a rewarding gameplay loop. | 66% |
| Excellent itemization, crafting system | The game features a robust itemization and crafting system, with a built-in loot filter for customization. The crafting system allows for extensive modification of gear, enabling players to fine-tune their items. The game also offers a generous stash system and various quality-of-life features. | 56% |
| Balances complexity and accessibility | The game strikes a balance between complexity and accessibility, offering depth without being overwhelming. It avoids the extreme complexity of Path of Exile while providing more customization than Diablo 4. The game is easy to pick up and play, even for players new to the ARPG genre. | 26% |
| Active, communicative developers | The developers are actively engaged with the community, responding to feedback and providing regular updates. They are dedicated to improving the game and creating a great gaming experience. This is a positive sign for the game's future. | 13% |
| Good gameplay feel, animations | The gameplay feels good with new animations and mobs. The game's feel is very good, less visually overwhelming than Path of Exile, although not as impressive as Diablo 4 in terms of animation and impact. Movement feels good, with the player always moving where they intend to. | 12% |
| Diverse, viable classes | The game offers a variety of classes and subclasses, each with unique playstyles. The classes are well-designed and balanced, with many viable builds for each class. The game encourages exploration and experimentation with different classes and builds. | 7% |
| Alt-friendly, skip campaign | The game is alt-friendly due to campaign length and the ability to skip it. The game is more accessible than Path of Exile. The game has far more interesting and challenging end game content than Diablo 4. | 6% |
| Ethical monetization, cosmetic-only shop | The game's cash shop is cosmetic-only, with no "pay to win" or "pay for convenience" elements. There are no battle passes or daily login requirements. The game respects the player's time and wallet. | 5% |
| Impactful, build-altering unique items | Unique items often provide significant build-altering effects, leveraging their powerful modifiers. Unique items have Legendary Potential, allowing the inheritance of affixes from non-unique items. The itemization system, especially the LP system, offers a manageable way to improve unique items. | 5% |
| Good alternative to other ARPGs | The game is a positive surprise after disappointment with other ARPGs. The game is a good entry point into the HnS genre, especially for those who didn't like D4 or found PoE too complex. The game is enjoyable and a good alternative to Diablo 4. | 4% |