Avencast: Rise of the Mage

Avencast: Rise of the Mage

Steam Deck · unrated

ClockStone · Hack and Slash · Mar 17, 2010

It depends on what you're after.

At $4.99. We haven't seen it on sale.

69%
Mixed
719 player reviews
Medium confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Gameplay: 48 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 42 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Audio: 29 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Difficulty: 14 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Crashes: 13 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Bugs: 10 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 719 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
34% of themes are praise33% are divided33% are caveats
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
because i find the game to be just that pleasant to play, its take on mage focused gameplay is very unique, one that hasn't been replicated before and allows you, as a mage to have a complete magic based melee combat system where your staff is used as both the focus and the source of melee damage.
48 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
Avencast is a good way to the RPG genre, with its nice story line (till what I have reached), nice graphics and reminds me the times when I was a young child reading the Harry Potter series of books and imagining myself in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry which I feel the developer done a good job on
42 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
the story is pretty basic but serviceable, the voice acting isn't annoying, the slightly animated picture cut-scenes are nice and the equipment is fun to get.
29 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 love3 themes
Gameplay48 reviews
Graphics42 reviews
Audio29 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Story and characters114 reviews
75%
Combat69 reviews
74%
Interface11 reviews
45%
Players complain% still recommend
Difficulty14 reviews
71%
Crashes13 reviews
54%
Bugs10 reviews
50%

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.

Full price

Currently $4.99. We haven't seen it on sale yet.

3 points recordedtoday · $4.99

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
69%
Mixed
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.