The Nameless: Slay Dragon Reviews

The Nameless: Slay Dragon is ranked in the 93rd percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
78 / 100
Aug 31, 2025

The Nameless: Slay Dragon is a significant experiment that combines elements from various RPGs into a cohesive, unified experience. It doesn't master any one system, but it also doesn't fall apart because of its ambitious goals. Instead, it creates a space where exploration, combat, storytelling, and building stats can all co-occur without one overshadowing the others.

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4.2 / 5.0
Sep 1, 2025

The Nameless: Slay Dragon is a suitable choice for fans of independent role-playing games, tabletop adaptations, and players who enjoy tactical combat and making meaningful choices. It costs about $17.99 and has multiple endings. For completists, there may be 100 hours of material. You can have a lot of fun with this if you don’t mind randomness and dice-based chaos.

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8.5 / 10.0
Aug 29, 2025

A rich, character-driven choose-your-own-adventure story and a deep, rewarding job system make The Nameless: Slay Dragon a must-play for fans of classic RPGs and visual novels alike. It may be slightly rough around the edges, but its many strengths easily outweigh its few flaws.

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RPG Fan
Top Critic
87%
Sep 25, 2024

The Nameless: Slay Dragon is a thoroughly robust, entertaining RPG adventure.

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Sep 26, 2024

The Nameless: Slay Dragon has a lot of deep and engaging mechanics you can customize a variety of ways. You can be turned off by the static map or blocking but the story is pretty rich.

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8.5 / 10.0
Aug 28, 2025

Interesting indie turn-based RPG on Nintendo Switch

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Unscored
Sep 26, 2024

The gamebook style of The Nameless: Slay Dragon is not something you see often, but the overreliance on RNG checks really sours the experience. There’s a good amount of content here for those that persevere (including story threads tied to multiple playthroughs), but I can’t really say that I had fun during my time with The Nameless: Slay Dragon.

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