Worth it for the right player.
At $9.99. It has been as low as $1.49.
- Graphics: 88 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 68 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Controls: 14 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Combat: 46 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Bugs: 45 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Interface: 14 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 565 player reviews · updated 6 days ago
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This level of depth, combined with some remarkable graphics and a high level of attention to detail, make traversing through Downward feel more like a journey, as opposed to a chore.
Here goes! ---> Excellent ambiance, atmosphere, sounds, aesthetics, visually appealing, SMOOTH GAMEPLAY that IS NOT glitchy or sticky, game makes you want to look and touch everything for extremely close analysis, NEVER A BORING MOMENT, extremely interesting storylines so far with at least 3 separate conflicting characters (Who to listen to or trust?!), voice acting totally believable, and even with the crashes I had I was able to quickly access and continue my story from last save without all of that logo / intro crap and credits nonsense that makes games so slow to start...
I initially starting playing this game with a controller, but discovered quickly that just didn't work because you couldn't map some of the necessary functions to buttons, and could not map the joystick buttons to anything (they didn't register at all) so I highly recommend using the keyboard/mouse controls.
Brilliant optimization here!
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Currently $9.99. The lowest we've tracked is $1.49.
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