Guild Wars 2®

Guild Wars 2®

Steam Deck Playable

ArenaNet® · MMORPG · Aug 23, 2022

Yes, worth playing.

It's free to play.

88%
Very Positive
29k player reviews
High confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 115 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Gameplay: 61 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 29 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Interface: 24 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Bugs: 6 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 29k player reviews · updated 4 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
42% of themes are praise42% are divided16% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
The story was always nice same with the different NPCs and mobs but the gameplay part seems like such a downgrade and at this point I stopped bothering with the game since it was just frustrating trying to do anything.
115 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
The gameplay of this MMO is also peak and feels very satisfying.
61 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
Graphics look nice too but a bit dated but thats hard to avoid considering this MMO is from 2012.
29 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
Now let me praise the voice acting, cause along the immersion of the world and npcs interacting, the voice acting is is absolutely solid from beginning to end and the game doesn't have 1 hour cutscenes, it doesn't have 2 hour reading sessions of texts, like i said, the story telling is as smooth as butter.
9 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Controls
Players who bring up Controls mostly praise it.
There are a lot of great community controller layouts that work very well!
8 of 300 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love5 themes
Story and characters115 reviews
Gameplay61 reviews
Graphics29 reviews
Audio9 reviews
Controls8 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Combat68 reviews
82%
Monetization55 reviews
76%
Multiplayer46 reviews
78%
Linux compatibility10 reviews
90%
Difficulty7 reviews
86%
Players complain% still recommend
Interface24 reviews
46%
Bugs6 reviews
33%

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway.

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
88%
Very Positive
Playing right now
Achievements
0
total to unlock
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Average playtime
Not tracked yet

We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.