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ION LANDS · Adventure · Feb 7, 2017

It depends on what you're after.

It's free to play.

69%
Mixed
1k player reviews
Medium confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 151 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 64 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Audio: 31 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Crashes: 30 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Combat: 26 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Bugs: 15 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 1k player reviews · updated 5 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
33% of themes are praise42% are divided25% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
Interesting story and lore elements.
151 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
as far as graphics and audio go, there's no issues. i've heard people complain about it being hard to run, i'm rocking a gtx 1080 and playing at 4K max with a near locked 60fps so i don't see any issues. but i'm also rocking the 2nd best video card right now period so. graphics themselves are well polished. not the best of the bunch, but art is quite coherent and some particles really impress. sound effects are also very pleasant, impressively so for an indie title. now graphics options are fairly basic. so is input options. gamepad support is shoehorned in there and just kinda works. it plays best with M\K.
64 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
as far as graphics and audio go, there's no issues. i've heard people complain about it being hard to run, i'm rocking a gtx 1080 and playing at 4K max with a near locked 60fps so i don't see any issues. but i'm also rocking the 2nd best video card right now period so. graphics themselves are well polished. not the best of the bunch, but art is quite coherent and some particles really impress. sound effects are also very pleasant, impressively so for an indie title. now graphics options are fairly basic. so is input options. gamepad support is shoehorned in there and just kinda works. it plays best with M\K.
31 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Controls
Players who bring up Controls mostly praise it.
as far as graphics and audio go, there's no issues. i've heard people complain about it being hard to run, i'm rocking a gtx 1080 and playing at 4K max with a near locked 60fps so i don't see any issues. but i'm also rocking the 2nd best video card right now period so. graphics themselves are well polished. not the best of the bunch, but art is quite coherent and some particles really impress. sound effects are also very pleasant, impressively so for an indie title. now graphics options are fairly basic. so is input options. gamepad support is shoehorned in there and just kinda works. it plays best with M\K.
10 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 love4 themes
Story and characters151 reviews
Graphics64 reviews
Audio31 reviews
Controls10 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Gameplay49 reviews
49%
Difficulty19 reviews
100%
Interface17 reviews
47%
Performance12 reviews
50%
Optimization6 reviews
33%
Players complain% still recommend
Crashes30 reviews
67%
Combat26 reviews
69%
Bugs15 reviews
87%

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
69%
Mixed
Playing right now
Achievements
52
total to unlock
Rarest-achievement stats coming soon
Average playtime
Not tracked yet

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