Anachronox

Anachronox

Steam Deck Playable

Ion Storm · RPG · Oct 17, 2013

Worth it for the right player.

It's at its lowest recorded price, $0.97.

74%
Mostly Positive
635 player reviews
Medium confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 207 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Audio: 32 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Combat: 108 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Bugs: 32 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Crashes: 12 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 635 player reviews · updated 6 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
22% of themes are praise45% are divided33% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
Anach's pros which are also its strongest points are the world they built here, the characters, the places you visit, the worldbuilding here is of the best Ive seen in gaming, theres many inspirations from Matrix and scifi stuff from back then which was also seen in this company's previous work aka the first Deus Ex which Im yet to play, the world of Anachronox is immersive, beautiful, unique and what kept me going on and playing it instead of just watching the cutscenes on youtube, because I wanted to explore the remaining places of this world by myself and I wanted to know where the story was going, the graphics were good of its time, the soundtrack was incredible, the atmosphere was also good, the story starts slow, takes a few hours to build up, then it gets really good, the relationship between characters are spot on, I loved everyone on my party except for the super hero guy, he was just bland and forgettable, the story gets even better at the end of the first half, thanks to a good twist, as soon the second half starts it falls apart, things start dragging down and the game ends with an unresolved cliffhanger where another twist (this one being unnecessary) happens and then we get a sequel-bait ending, to be continued stuff, a sequel that will never come, this just made the whole thing worse which mad me feel that my whole time with it feel unrewarding and unfulfilling after all the trouble and crap I had to endure with the gameplay which is HORRIBLE, it just severely disappointed me that there was no conclusion.
207 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
Anach's pros which are also its strongest points are the world they built here, the characters, the places you visit, the worldbuilding here is of the best Ive seen in gaming, theres many inspirations from Matrix and scifi stuff from back then which was also seen in this company's previous work aka the first Deus Ex which Im yet to play, the world of Anachronox is immersive, beautiful, unique and what kept me going on and playing it instead of just watching the cutscenes on youtube, because I wanted to explore the remaining places of this world by myself and I wanted to know where the story was going, the graphics were good of its time, the soundtrack was incredible, the atmosphere was also good, the story starts slow, takes a few hours to build up, then it gets really good, the relationship between characters are spot on, I loved everyone on my party except for the super hero guy, he was just bland and forgettable, the story gets even better at the end of the first half, thanks to a good twist, as soon the second half starts it falls apart, things start dragging down and the game ends with an unresolved cliffhanger where another twist (this one being unnecessary) happens and then we get a sequel-bait ending, to be continued stuff, a sequel that will never come, this just made the whole thing worse which mad me feel that my whole time with it feel unrewarding and unfulfilling after all the trouble and crap I had to endure with the gameplay which is HORRIBLE, it just severely disappointed me that there was no conclusion.
32 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 love2 themes
Story and characters207 reviews
Audio32 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Graphics85 reviews
76%
Gameplay64 reviews
78%
Interface17 reviews
59%
Difficulty12 reviews
83%
Players complain% still recommend
Combat108 reviews
73%
Bugs32 reviews
56%
Crashes12 reviews
58%

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. 2 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.

Should you buy it now?

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

Lowest ever recorded

Currently $0.97 (−86%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.

5 points recordedtoday · $0.97

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
74%
Mostly Positive
Playing right now
Achievements
0
total to unlock
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Average playtime
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