Death's Door Reviews
Another quirky gem from Devolver Digital, this tale of a crow in Death's employ is a fascinating and entertaining journey.
Ultimately it’s the boss fights you’ll remember by the time the credits roll on Death’s Door. There’s more of them than you’ll probably expect, and each and every one of them is wonderfully designed. They can be tricky to defeat – one or two of them particularly so – but when you emerge victorious the feeling is akin to overcoming a boss in Dark Souls. Needless to say, if you love games like The Legend of Zelda and don’t mind a bit more of a challenge, be sure to give Death’s Door your attention.
Death’s Door is a very polished and lovingly crafted action adventure game. It is seemingly a very personal game from the developers and it is steeped with creative ideas in regards to characters and designs. The gameplay is somewhat vanilla, but the ambiance and style elevate the material.
Death’s Door is an excellent action-adventure gem, balancing solemnity with laughs and moderate difficulty alongside forgiving mechanics. Its combat is pure and satisfying, and the light-RPG elements make progression enjoyable. What I admired most, though, is how all of these elements work in tandem as Death’s Door offers an adventure that feels fresh. From the exquisite environments and discoverable upgrades/collectibles to the delightful characters, you won’t wanna miss out.
The soundtrack is also fantastic, with composer David Fenn managing to strike a perfect balance between high energy action and peaceful contemplation. Not to mention the crow you're controlling is just a cute little bird. If you are a fan of action games and have an itch for one that will kill around 8 hours, Death's Door is a pretty good place to clock in and get to work.
Inspired by works such as Zelda and creating an immaculate balance between surfing, puzzle solving and combat, the game offers fascinating gameplay that doesn't fall out of rhythm until the last minute.
Review in Persian | Read full review
Raven Reaper dances, eliminates enemies, meets mysterious characters and travels through beautiful locations. Death's Door is worth spending three evenings on.
Review in Polish | Read full review
Death's Door is a well crafted Action RPG that respects its audience by offering pure quality, and the improvements over the previous game by Acid Nerve shows that the studio is on the right path to develop even more exciting titles in the future.
Review in Persian | Read full review
12 hours of non-stop entertainment. Hard to believe it's created by just two people.
Review in Turkish | Read full review
Death's Door offers a challanging gameplay and beautiful graphics. Howeverm there are some minor issues.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
Death's Door is a gorgeous action RPG inspired by The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening and Souls Franchise. It has well-made hand-designed interconnected levels with a delicate combat system and elegant puzzles. Death's Door also succeeds in audiovisual aspects and delivers an unbelievably coherent experience. This game is an indie masterpiece and a must-buy.
Review in Persian | Read full review
Death's Door es un juego que cumple en todos los aspectos: un control responsivo, mecánicas interesantes, historia satisfactoria, rejugabilidad y dificultad bien diseñada. Diifícil pensar en no recomendarlo a cualquiera que juegue videojuegos. Death's Door una vez más nos demuestra que un título indie puede ser un gran juego y competir por lo mejor del año sin necesidad de gastar millones de dólares. Directo a lo mejor del año.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Death's Door strikes the right balance between challenge and enjoyment. The experience is further enriched by short, fun puzzles and a divergent world design that encourages exploration.
Review in Arabic | Read full review
Death Door is a game that overflows with quality in each of its sections. With a fun and addictive gameplay, a graphic aspect that has nothing to envy to the big productions and a fairly wide soundtrack that fits perfectly with each situation and presenting itself as one of the candidates for play of the year.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Death's Door is a streamlined action adventure experience that finds a groove and sticks with it. With a low asking price and high level of polish, fans of this genre should find the little crow's soul reaping journey quite endearing.
Wondrous game with a sincere, bittersweet story, charming characters, and incredibly emotional soundtrack.
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While Death's Door borrows a lot of elements from many other games, it mashes them all together and refines them into its own thing. Not one single element feels undercooked and the result is a mysterious world you'll instantly be lost within. Outside of the odd frame dip in certain situations, we absolutely loved Death's Door. It's a game filled with surprises, nods, humour, and moves at such a pace we could barely put the controller down. Games this well-crafted don't come along very often, but when they do, they're something to celebrate. Death's Door deserves all the attention it will most likely get, and is a contender for one of 2021's best games.
For me, the highlight of the game was the door-based battles, which had waves of enemies teleporting in more open space. Even when I died I wanted to get back to them quickly to try out new strategies (more doges are always a great idea). Death's Door offers a good mix of combat and exploration but needs a few more systems to keep gamers interested to make progress and find everything the game has to offer.
For the most part, Death's Door hits it out of the park and is easily a contender for indie GOTY. Fans of top-down action RPGs shouldn't hesitate to pick this one up.