Bleak Faith: Forsaken Reviews

Bleak Faith: Forsaken is ranked in the 10th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
8 / 10
Mar 9, 2023

There's something about "Bleak Faith: Forsaken" that pulls you right into its despondent and desperate world and keeps you there.

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6 / 10
Mar 10, 2023

Bleak Faith: Forsaken is a competent sci-fi soulslike with a beautiful and brutal new world to explore. It’s combat is serviceable, but its lack of explanations, narrative or even lore will leave many floundering without anything much to grab onto. This is one for the really dedicated Souls veteran who leans far to the extremes of the From Software design school.

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2.5 / 10.0
Mar 10, 2023

Bleak Faith: Forsaken's interesting art design can't save it from its glitches, bugs, and myriad terrible game design decisions. (Review Policy)

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Mar 13, 2023

Bleak Faith: Forsaken is a game with incredible potential. It makes up for technical issues with surreal environments and horrific enemy designs, but its core gameplay suffers from heavy focus on Souls-like mechanics and common deaths. It still needs time to resolve those problems, but if the devs make use of that time with continued updates and support, faith in this game's greatness might not be so bleak after all.

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55 / 100
Mar 18, 2023

Bleak Faith Forsaken’s screenshots are impressive. The game’s art direction and atmosphere suggest an oppressive future world, but Bleak Faith Forsaken is all window dressing. Behind the façade, a seriously unpolished Soulslike filled with broken dreams awaits.

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D-
Mar 20, 2023

On the most basic level, there is an appeal to Bleak Faith. The enemies have creepy, science-fiction-inspired designs, the world is intriguing, and some truly inspired ideas from Archangel Studios support the whole thing. But every element feels half-baked or borderline broken. Movement and combat are floaty and clunky, exploration is unsatisfying, the visuals are hit or miss, music tracks repeat too often, and the story is indecipherable.

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3 / 10.0
Mar 22, 2023

Bleak Faith: Forsaken is running on vibes alone; delivering a bundle of tremendously creative art design and a promising concept, tied together by the weak string of its functionality.

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3 / 10.0
Mar 24, 2023

In spite of proposing very good ideas and a great evolution, the game is still not in a correct state to have been released as a complete title.

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6 / 10.0
Mar 26, 2023

Bleak Faith seems like yet another souls-like. But the more you play, the more you understand that it is closer to action-RPGs of «before Dark Souls» era

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6.5 / 10.0
Mar 29, 2023

Bleak Faith: Forsaken has a lot of potential, and the developers seem dedicated to updating the game, so it's possible that a lot of this review will be outdated in a few months. At the moment, it's a testament to the difficulty of making a good Soulslike. All of the pieces are there, but they don't fit together properly, which exacerbates the genre flaws more significantly than any other type of game on the market. Bleak Faith has some strengths if you're willing to work past its flaws, but it doesn't stand out among the absolute glut of similar titles on the market.

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