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Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie, Action
Empyreal is a complex, challenging, feature-rich action RPG. In a far-flung corner of the galaxy an Expedition arrives on a hitherto unexplored planet to find a colossal Monolith built by a lost civilisation.
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Thumb CultureMay 20255/5 starsEmpyreal is a solid dungeon crawler with a complex and engaging core gameplay loop. It allows the player to build a character that suits their playstyle and a familiar, visible path for progression. Anyone that enjoys 3rd person ARPGs should really pick this one up. It would be a shame to award it anything less than the Thumb Culture Platinum Award.
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RPG FanMay 202579/100Empyreal is quite successful at providing an excellent combat experience, but if you want more to support that, you'll need to look elsewhere.
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CompletexboxMay 202585/100As part of the CompleteXbox Review team I play a lot of games and have a finite amount of storage space. Normally, Empyreal would have been removed from my hard drive and I would be looking for my next contestant. This is the biggest compliment I can give Empyreal. It’s going to earn that disk space on my console and I don’t see it going anywhere else soon. A crushingly difficulty RPG/Soulslike that if you take the time to learn the blocking, dodging and attack patterns, you will spend many hours happily finding your next cartogram to conquer. However, those that dislike the difficulty curve will not find satisfaction here.
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GameLusterNima DabirianMay 20253/10Empyreal offers a fun combat if you can understand and manage the progression and gear systems, but other than that, the story, world and character design, and atmosphere feels empty and disconnected from the player and their avatar's perspective and experience.
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GameffineUphar DuttaJun 202543/100Empyreal is a decent ARPG, but really misses all its marks. It may have an interesting-looking world for an indie, but it clearly misses having a good story, engaging combat, or exploration. The game tries to be challenging, but only ends up being a bland fighting experience loop that just progresses to be even more frustrating. Overall, if you’re a die-hard ARPG fan, you can still find a good time, but there are many better titles to play this year.
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IGDB rating 5.6/10 from 1 ratings.
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