Nocturne: Prelude

Nocturne: Prelude

Steam Deck · unrated

Pracy Studios · JRPG · Mar 3, 2020

Reviews look positive, but there are only a few so far.

It's free to play.

97%
Very Positive
397 player reviews
Low confidence · few reviews
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 154 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Gameplay: 49 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 38 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • No recurring complaint surfaced in 280 sampled reviews

Based on 397 player reviews · updated 5 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 280 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
67% of themes are praise33% are divided0% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
But even that feels much better once the story picks up!
154 of 280 sampled reviews raised it
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
I'm also a really big fan of all the difficulty options to choose from (even if some seem downright impossible even in the early game), which makes it seem like this game's going to have a lot of replayability in the future.
49 of 280 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
Graphics are hard as hell to make, and Nocturne's style isn't bad (and isn't the focal point), so I'm just going to make a quick mention of a few small things and move on: there's a few flat-color floors that I wish had more detail, and I with the main character had some more fluid moving animation (like a different anim for sprinting, one for starting a sprint, etc).
38 of 280 sampled reviews raised it
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
While the game has some pretty good music (as it should), a lot of sound effects seem strangely absent.
23 of 280 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 characters154 reviews
Gameplay49 reviews
Graphics38 reviews
Audio23 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Combat47 reviews
91%
Difficulty45 reviews
100%
Players complain% still recommend

No recurring complaints surfaced in this sample.

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.

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
97%
Very Positive
Playing right now
Achievements
17
total to unlock
Rarest-achievement stats coming soon
Average playtime
Not tracked yet

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