Reviews look positive, but there are only a few so far.
At $14.99. It has been as low as $8.24.
- Story and characters: 91 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 33 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 14 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Combat: 18 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Bugs: 8 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 460 player reviews · updated 6 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 260 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
TLDR review if you dont wanna read my ramblings: It's an interesting and compelling story!
I highly recommend Among Ashes for fans of survival horror who are comfortable with an intensely packed, story focused experience that doesn't lean too hard on action/modern progression loops.
The level design is somewhat 1:1 with the graphics (by which I mean, it would fit in older games but you can feel how evolution in gaming has changed the way levels are built), but still intuitive enough that with some thinking you can clear most places and puzzles on the map with relative ease (granted the monsters don't get you).
Additionally, the audio design fits perfectly into the puzzle - there is spatial audio, but you're playing a game of a player playing a game, so there are moments where you have to determine if that sound you heard was in the character's game or the character's room... and sometimes, you may not want to know.
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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.
Currently $14.99. The lowest we've tracked is $8.24.
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