Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden Reviews

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is ranked in the 83rd percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
85%
Feb 12, 2024

Devilishly good stories and beautiful haunting visuals in a cool dark fantasy world overcome the bland combat.

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RPG Site
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7 / 10
Feb 12, 2024

Banishers: Ghost of New Eden's excellent characters and storytelling are diminished by its mundane world structure and repetitive combat.

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78%
Feb 12, 2024

A fine AA open world action RPG with a compelling story and decent combat, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden might be one of the bests games you've never heard of. It deserves more than a ghost of a chance.

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8.4 / 10.0
Feb 12, 2024

Despite a stiff combat system that sometimes feels imprecise, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden presents a compelling story about love, human misery and crucial social themes.

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8 / 10.0
Feb 12, 2024

Don't Nod has taken several key lessons from Vampyr and applied them to great effect with its second action RPG. Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden might not be revolutionary in anything that it does, and from a gameplay standpoint, it can sometimes feel a bit too straightforward for its own good, but with a well-realized setting, captivating story, excellent protagonists, and genuinely compelling choice-and-consequence moments, it's an easy game to recommend to fans of the genre.

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9 / 10.0
Feb 12, 2024

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden masterfully weaves a narrative that not only captivates but also challenges players to reflect on their own moral compass.

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8 / 10.0
Feb 15, 2024

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is a great adventure game that tells a love story mixed with life and death, set in the colonial era. It looks at remembering the sacrifices and bloody history.

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GBAtemp
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8 / 10.0
Feb 12, 2024

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden offers an original, engaging narrative-driven experience with impactful in-game decisions.

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8 / 10.0
Mar 13, 2024

If you’re already a fan of “AAA” style action RPGs you’re likely to enjoy Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden even more than I did.

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8 / 10.0
Feb 12, 2024

Don't Nod's best work yet. The impressive story, the immersive period atmosphere, the well-written characters and stories, and the smooth and enjoyable action are blended together, and it works very well.

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PSX Brasil
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84 / 100
Feb 12, 2024

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden disappoints a bit with its technical problems and lack of simple features, but DON'T NOD has managed to create a magnificent and addictive world that makes the player want to go all the way to the end – after all, you are responsible for the fate of Red and Antea.

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8.5 / 10.0
Feb 12, 2024

Long live the spirits! Or rather not? The main characters of the game know about it, but their destinies are affected by an unexpected event and certainty turns into doubt. You will fight and explore the landscape, but the most interesting are definitely ghost stories.

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8 / 10.0
Feb 12, 2024

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is a breath of fresh air among games I've played in recent years. Haunting Cases are amazing and world design is impressive. on the other hand, it suffers from different issues like low enemy variety, camera positioning and sporadic frame rate drop. That being said, it still delivers an amazing experience from start to finish.

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10 / 10.0
Feb 12, 2024

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is astounding, and the way it tells a compelling story and connects you to the characters is really impressive. It's impossible not to recommend this masterpiece of a game.

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Feb 12, 2024
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7.5 / 10.0
Feb 13, 2024

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is a great example of less being more. What it does well, it does very well, but those elements are bogged down in a needlessly large, open world that's been padded out with thin gameplay. When you reach the meat of the game, it's usually worth the effort, but there's so much dilution that it has difficulty shining through. The poor performance also makes the tedious elements feel more so. Like its main characters, Banishers is stuck in limbo between excellence and blandness, and I can only hope that any sequel will focus on quality over quantity.

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Feb 13, 2024

The best art tells us something of relevance to the world around us. Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is a dark and intense fantasy of ghosts, vengeance, and human resilience through the bleakest of nightmares. It’s unfortunate that it offers such a strong allegory to the real world, yet it does and that makes it all the more thought-provoking, however inadvertent it was for the developers. Thankfully it’s also exceptionally good to play, even as it challenges your intellect and moral core.

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7.5 / 10.0
Feb 24, 2024

Banishers isn't without its challenges, but it's a cleverly put together adventure that doesn't mind the time spent.

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8 / 10
Mar 2, 2024

As the industry shifts more and more towards mediocre service-based AAA games, the value of traditional AA games is becoming more and more obvious, and Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is a prime example of that. It's not without flaws, but the bold decision making in world design and innovative storytelling separates it from the pack and makes it the best game by Don't Nod to date.

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81 / 100
Feb 25, 2024

Ordained by a clear narrative, resolute characters, intriguing hauntings and an eventually favorable combat model, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is a morally infused spirit smasher set in a large world that needed a little exorcism.

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