Dragon Age: The Veilguard Reviews
Ultimately, Veilguard delivers on the promise of every Dragon Age with its strong characters, engaging combat, and a classic BioWare role-playing experience.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard captivated me for around 65 hours, with its heartwarming focus on team dynamics, diverse characters, and personal stories. While the RPG mechanics feel shallow at times, the rich world full of secrets and treasures made the journey unforgettable — and I hope BioWare one day finds its way back to success.
Review in German | Read full review
In a lot of respects, The Veilguard is a vastly superior game when compared to Inquisition, but gone are the days that Dragon Age is a truly deep and innovative RPG. It's definitely more action than RPG these days, which is truly a shame. Nonetheless, it’s a pretty impressive package easily worth the price of entry.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is fantastic. It feels great to play, the length of the story is perfect and doesn’t break the pacing. It may not 100% capitalise on the darkness of previous games but it feels like this more positive angle was deliberate with the game and how the story is designed around it. Additionally, the way the game handles consequences for choices is great and really made the main decisions hit where it mattered so that the endgame was all the more worthy and emotional. Recommended to anyone wanting a fun action RPG that follows up Dragon Age’s existing story.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard has taken some of the best elements of BioWare's storytelling and melded it with action RPG elements and character-building mechanics. Oh, and dragons!
Dragon Age: The Veilguard succeeds in its mission to welcome new players into the series with accessible gameplay, stunning visuals, and engaging exploration. However, its streamlined design reduced narrative depth, and simplified romance options may leave longtime fans yearning for the complexity of earlier entries. For newcomers, The Veilguard is a captivating introduction to the magic of Thedas. For veterans, it’s a visually spectacular, albeit simplified, chapter in the Dragon Age saga—a promising foundation that could pave the way for a deeper, more ambitious future installment.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is just what the franchise needed; a better contained story with some excellent characters. Quite a few decisions actually carried some serious weight, which can vastly affect the outcome of the game. There are multiple endings, and yes, plenty of your companions can die, so there’s a huge replayability factor. The pacing is well-balanced and the combat is a delight, making this game a blast to play from start to finish. Don’t listen to the nay-sayers; if you’re a fan of this franchise, then you simply can’t miss Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
With so much history and frankly, baggage, Dragon Age: The Veilguard was always going to find it hard to please everyone. But what BioWare has done is put together an RPG that fits in well with the modern audience but still offers up many of the elements that make the studio such a stalwart in the genre. The exciting combat, a great cast of characters, excellent writing, and the visuals and audio combine to make this new entry almost unstoppable, like the Blight. There are no doubt still kinks to work out, but if this is the new Dragon Age, the future definitely looks brighter than ever before.
Dragon Age: Veilguard é uma entrada marcante na série, com mudanças arrojadas na narrativa, gráficos e jogabilidade. Apesar de algumas escolhas divisivas, como o tom mais leve e o sistema de loot algo repetitivo, o jogo compensa com combates bem elaborados, um sistema de progressão envolvente e uma performance audiovisual de excelência. É uma experiência que pode dividir os jogadores; principalmente os fãs da saga poderão sentir algum desconforto com tantas mudanças implementadas e o inicio da aventura menos envolvente. Inovar numa saga tão icónica é uma tarefa monumental e, embora nem todas as novidades sejam bem-sucedidas, esta é uma boa experiência que abre portas a novos jogadores e desafia os fãs de longa data a explorar uma nova faceta de Thedas.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Like on the PlayStation 5 and PS5 Pro, I seriously enjoyed my time (and still am) in the world of Dragon Age: The Veilguard and it is easily in my top three games of 2024. BioWare has done a wonderful job at revisiting this franchise from its engaging narrative, realistic characters and gameplay that takes RPG to a whole new realm. Best of all, it works extremely well on the Steam Deck with its next-gen graphics and superb audio.
Mission Accomplished, I'd say. Dragon Age: The Veilguard may not be the high-flyer you'd once associate with the Bioware name. But after the disappointments of recent years, it's a step in the right direction. The changes are well-considered, the character editor is fantastic, and the bugs aren't designed to drag the game down mercilessly. I had fun, and that's the main thing.
Review in German | Read full review
That amazing Dragon Age game we've been waiting years for? No, it's not. Is it a good game? Debatable. But it does so many right things at a few vital points that it managed to win my heart with those moments alone.
Review in Turkish | Read full review
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a game that, while not reaching the greatness of previous entries, offers a solid experience for fans of the series. With its well-crafted narrative, impressive visual design, and a world worth exploring, it manages to captivate. However, its repetitive combat, limited customization, and overly “safe” companions hold it back.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Dragon Age: The Veilguard combines a compelling story with complex team dynamics, in which choices influence relationships and the plot. The gameplay offers smooth action, strategic party-based combat and extensive exploration, with unique classes and specializations. The visually breathtaking world and powerful soundtrack make this fourth part to a peak in the series.
Review in Dutch | Read full review
Sadly, Dragon Age: The Veilguard isn’t the return to form we were hoping for from Bioware. That doesn’t mean it’s a bad game, though.
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard stands on the shoulders of Titans with the previous Dragon Age series and even though the beginning feels a bit clumsy, the game itself delivers in spades.
Even after accounting for The Veilguard's numerous flaws, perhaps Bioware's greatest offense is also its most ironic: making a Dragon Age game that feels pathetically toothless.
The Veilguard is a worthy addition to the roster of superb recent fantasy RPGs that together represent a stunning renaissance for the genre.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard can be considered a mixture of different ideas and opinions, the outcome of which does not have a clear shape, the conflict between the game's events and its designs, and the low level of the elements that once formed the DNA of the DA series, have resulted in a truly ordinary Action RPG title, similar to the one we see on the market and in many other titles, and it appears completely disappointing for people who have been waiting a decade to experience one of their favorite series again.
Review in Persian | Read full review
Dragon Age: The Veilguard has been a very long time coming and while it’s arguable whether it fulfils fan expectation in a way that will make everyone happy, what Bioware and EA offer is a solid RPG that is a huge return to form for a studio that have fallen from grace in recent years. From its well-developed mechanics, deep lore, established, varied characters with interesting back and side stories, and a direct continuation of a saga we’ve waited on answers for, The Veilguard feels like a breath of new life for Dragon Age, whether you’ve been here since day one or you’re desperate to see what the hype is all about.