Dragon Age: The Veilguard Reviews
Dragon Age: The Veilguard will undoubtably be my 2024 Game of the Year. I was fully engaged for my 100+ hour run, leaving me both and fulfilled and bittersweet when it came to an end. While additional content from BioWare would be a welcome addition, the game stands strong as a complete experience. I’m already looking forward to diving back in for another run.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard isn't BioWare's best work, but it's good. Offering a beautiful world and a ton to do, heading back into Thedas is an easy choice for some. For others, the downgrade in writing and limited combat might be a dealbreaker.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard feels refreshing and joyful action RPG even for a newcomer to the series. It continues the story started by previous games but still completely stands on it's own feet offering a great and fullfilling experience in the end.
Review in Finnish | Read full review
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is very much destined to be a decisive experience due to its more action-orientated combat, its cast of characters, visual style, and its writing. While I don't agree with every choice made here, and a few less than impressive character arcs, as well as the lacking presence of its elven gods in its story, Dragon Age: The Veilguard gave me everything else I wanted from it. It's action-packed and visually pleasing, and its use of Solas is extremely well-crafted and more than kept me entertained. Dragon Age was always going to be a challenge to remain relevant and a crowd-pleaser after a decade away, but ultimately, I loved it and it's one of the best games this year.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard shows a BioWare that wants to return to telling great single-player stories and taking us to fantastic places, but it only partially succeeds due to limited combat, a narrative with significant quality shortcomings compared to the past, and a technical aspect that suffers from the various identity changes the game has undergone over the years. Nevertheless, the new Dragon Age still remains fun to play, enticing to explore, and brimming with riches to experience and discover; thus, it deserves a chance from gamers.
Review in Italian | Read full review
While veteran fans may find the game’s mechanics and narrative a step back, I appreciated its accessibility and polish. Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a flawed but fun RPG that left me eager to see what BioWare will deliver next.
The fourth Dragon Age is once again a classic medieval fantasy with a dose of magic. However, the campaign is not as captivating and serious as it was in the previous installments, but it is at least partly balanced by the atmosphere and beautiful locations in which you can spend dozens of hours.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a testament to BioWare’s resilience and creativity. Despite a troubled development cycle, the game emerges as a worthy successor to the series, combining breathtaking visuals, engaging combat, and a story that rewards both new players and longtime fans.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard may not be the return fans have hoped for but its colorful world and action focused gameplay combined with wonderful writing for its characters still make this a solid RPG.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard does little to hint at the grand return of BioWare. Like Inquisition, Anthem, and Mass Effect Andromeda, The Veilguard does a great job with combat but lacks the meaningful story, writing, and exploration this studio desperately needs.
Though Veilguard plays it too safe too often, this update on a Bioware structure is addictive. It takes a while to get used to its presentation, but once it starts dishing out punches there is no going back.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard not only honors the legacy of Dragon Age but also opens exciting possibilities for other Bioware productions—provided the studio can maintain this level of quality.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Veilguard is a remarkable story with charming companions, excellent use of the tie-in media over the decade since Inquisition with some important characters originating from them, and a combat system that, while I did not and do not like it, I can recognize as high quality.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is an excellent sequel to the saga, captivating me from the very first moment, just like the previous three instalments. Despite uncertain narrative and writing, the title still showcases a richly detailed level design and a varied and balanced gameplay, offering extensive character customization and a role-playing immersion as only Bioware can achieve.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is an exceptionally polished game with an extremely satisfying combat system, lovely and interesting companions, and a stylistic new look that gives this long-running series a much-needed fresh coat of paint.
The Veilguard is a new entry into an old series. A series that honestly has struggled to find its identity. Fans looking for this game to remind them of Origins will be sad when they play this. But make no mistake, this is a really good, fun game. I enjoyed the heck out of my experience here. And there is a lot of content in this game as well. The Veilguard is jam-packed with content, side quests, story, and lore drops galore. Sincerely, I think there is something for everyone in this game.
It’s goofy, and earnest, and consciously inclusive in a way that makes me, a queer person, scared to talk about it on the internet (even after all these years). It’s bold, and comfortable in itself, and even in its weaker moments, It does feel different to the past games, but for me, it’s a good kind of different.
"Dragon Age: The Veilguard delivers a good action-heavy RPG, with moments of greatness buried in the second half of an extremely lengthy and linear opening. Veilguard does very little to revolutionise the RPG genre, and at times it feels like an RPG simply following the standardised template of what an RPG should be. But does that make it a bad experience? No, it just provides a less memorable adventure when compared to its genre counterparts. I could see Dragon Age veterans absolutely loving what Veilguard has to offer, but I can also see many players abandoning their adventure due to the extended linearity of its opening."