Arx Fatalis

Arx Fatalis

Steam Deck Playable

Arkane Studios · RPG · Apr 3, 2007

Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.

It's at its lowest recorded price, $1.64.

88%
Very Positive
3k player reviews
Medium confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 124 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Gameplay: 53 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Audio: 33 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Combat: 87 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Bugs: 30 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Difficulty: 24 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 3k player reviews · updated 3 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
46% of themes are praise18% are divided36% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
Pros: If you like a story-based quest progression game in a swords&sorcery genre, then this fits the bill.
124 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
Pros: If you like a story-based quest progression game in a swords&sorcery genre, then this fits the bill.
53 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
Audio is very immersive and believable, although sometimes spells and other sounds glitch out.
33 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
You're not buying this for sandboxing or jaw dropping graphics, you're buying this to tell/reveal/experience a single main story and save the world.
31 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Optimization
Players who bring up Optimization mostly praise it.
these things might seem quite "basic" for the typical plattformer or action-adventure, but I didn't expect such things in a game with an engine that was optimized for something entirely different I appreciate their attempt to experiment with a lot of interactions instead of streamlining the process until it becomes predictable and boring, well at some times they might have overdone this, but overall the game worked much better as an "adventure" game then as an "rpg", luckily fighting is never that concentrated that it actually would take too much time of the fun exploration part it was just one small component of it.
6 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 characters124 reviews
Gameplay53 reviews
Audio33 reviews
Graphics31 reviews
Optimization6 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Interface37 reviews
86%
Performance9 reviews
89%
Players complain% still recommend
Combat87 reviews
79%
Bugs30 reviews
90%
Difficulty24 reviews
75%
Crashes18 reviews
89%

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. One more theme was raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and is not shown.

Should you buy it now?

Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.

Lowest ever recorded

Currently $1.64 (−67%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.

5 points recordedtoday · $1.64

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
Rarest-achievement stats coming soon
Average playtime
Not tracked yet

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