Eternal Strands Reviews
Eternal Strands is high quality RPG that conjugates several game elements from titles like Legend of Zelda: Breath of Wild or Monster Hunter. Its authors put these elements together and created a unique gaming experience.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
Eternal Strand is an immense start for Yellow Brick. There are so many perfect parts in this tapestry of ideas from other games, and its approach of letting players explore and figure out ways to use their powers is amazing. There are a few glaring flaws here, but I think it is a case of the rest of it being so good that those weaknesses are put into stark contrast.
Eternal Strands is a great action game with a vibrant world, huge monsters, engaging magic systems, and satisfying combat that establishes Yellow Brick Games as a force to be reckoned with moving forward.
Eternal Strands has so many interesting ideas packed into its world. While none of the mechanics may be perfect, the ambition is clearly present, and that should be celebrated. Every person is sure to find something they love about this game, whether it be the over-the-top boss fights, layered character moments, or creative sandbox combat. I do hope we see more from Yellow Brick Games and Eternal Strands in the future because there’s a rather large spark here that I believe could build into a wildfire next time around.
The team at Yellow Brick covered a lot of ground in this first game, both in scope and physically in game with the number of areas available to explore. They did a lot of good things within their budget but I would love for them to scale back, hone the rougher edges, and focus on making them great. If you’re a fan of experimenting in combat with a charming cast, I recommend Eternal Strands for you. The story won’t move you, and the combat, while at times challenging, isn’t anything new. But if you’re curious, you’ll find the magic that keeps you coming back.
Eternal Strands is an impressive debut from Yellow Brick Games, showcasing not only what they’re capable of, but how to make it all work. With its engaging narrative, easy-to-use magic system, and rewarding exploration, there’s a lot to love here. There’s a lot of familiar ground tread here, but Eternal Strands is appropriately priced and an amalgamation of your favorite games into a tightly packed action-adventure RPG that’s easy to overlook – so don’t miss out.
Eternal Strands is a surprisingly fun and creative experience that encourages players to think and find ways around a situation before engaging. Creativity is greatly rewarded, and players have much to consider before approaching situations. And with a reasonable retail price, it surely is tempting! Despite the great use of its physics-based systems, combat feels slightly dull and weightless, and controls are somewhat finicky. Switching between weapons and strands is unintuitive and counterproductive to the game's goal of having players test every skill and how it affects the world around them.
Combining monster hunting, colossi climbing, exploration, and crafting, Eternal Strands often feels a little ‘lite’. However it’s defining feature is an elemental physics-based magic-system that is a valid competitor to Breath of the Wild. It’s that rare beast that often just sets you free to explore and find your own solutions, and its wonderful when it does.
What Eternal Strands does well, it does really well! The boss battles are highly enjoyable, and deserve to be considered for their own sake. The world is also very well constructed. And what can I say about the soundtrack! However, a little repetitiveness, a lack of rhythm, frustrating deaths and a few minor performance problems mean that the game doesn't reach as high a level as we'd hoped. But let's make no mistake, this is a great achievement for a first game. We'll have to keep an eye on Yellow Brick Games, because they've definitely got a lot of talent!
Review in French | Read full review
Eternal Strands is a game that sins by excess. Although it presents an interesting and majestic world, it soon loses its color when we realize that the game is more interested in wasting your time than entertaining you, with long and expository dialogues, bloated missions with complex objectives and, to top it all off, poorly polished gameplay with countless bugs. Eternal Strands still has its positive points in the midst of all this, but at the same time it is full of issues that need to be improved.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Eternal Strands is a beautifully imagined world with a rich story and engaging characters. Exciting combat mixing melee action, and spell casting joy create a fun, but challenging action RPG that is a must have for any action RPG fan.
Eternal Strands shines to be one of the most interesting RPGs with an insane amount of attention towards its design, combat, magic and great enemies. But at the same time, misses the target for their overly buffed storyline and outrageously lengthy quests. The latter part of the game is where you tend to have a lot of fun, so if you’re picking this title, make sure to stick around.
Eternal Strands delivers an enjoyable adventure thanks to its memorable world, clever magic mechanics, and exhilarating Ark battles. Don’t get me wrong, it has some imperfections and there were some elements of the melee combat that offered little you wouldn’t have already seen before, but these issues do little to hinder what is otherwise an engrossing fantasy adventure.
Eternal Strands, the first release from the new studio Yellow Brick Games, features new ideas mixed with the best practices from other genres. Not everything works as planned, but the interaction between environments, weather and magical powers allow for creative gameplay.
Review in Dutch | Read full review
Eternal Strands is a bittersweet experience. While we have a very good and consistent handling of the protagonist's magical abilities, the underlying repetitiveness and excessive resource grinding required to be able to continue dampens the enthusiasm generated by the beautiful and colossal boss fights present.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Eternal Strands is an enjoyable RPG with some fantastic ideas and bold ambition. Filled with compelling story, spirited voice acting and really fun combat system, you’ll find yourself swept up in its charms sooner than you expect. Despite some bugs, performance issues and tedious quests and traversal, this is an exciting starting point for a young studio and leaves potential for a franchise that has plenty of room to grow.
Yellow Brick Games should be super proud of the project they have produced here. Both the Xbox and Playstation platforms especially have been crying out for a game like this for some time and Eternal Strands is a journey that is well worth your time. The fact I could play this on my Legion Go on my handheld in downtime at work and then pick up where I left off at home on my Xbox Series X made it an absolute pleasure to play. It is refreshing to see a real success story in gaming from a new studio and IP from an industry that has struggled and suffered layoffs en masse in the last few years. I highly recommend picking up and playing Eternal Strands whether it is on Xbox with Xbox Game Pass, Playstation or Steam. It is a title that oozes fantastic design choices right across the board with a compelling storyline and engaging gameplay consistently. You’ll get a good 30+ hours out of this game depending on your pacing and whether you want to explore every nook and cranny as I did. This is the first stand-out game of 2025 for me and deserves to be a roaring success, I can’t wait to see what Yellow Brick Games create next!
Eternal Strands is an impressive achievement for a debut project. With its distinctive art direction, haunting soundtrack, innovative combat system, and clever integration of environmental magic, the game offers a rich and immersive experience.
Review in French | Read full review
Over the 30 hours spent in this game, not many of them felt like a chore, with exploration and tackling huge foes the bulk of my enjoyment. The story is good but it does get dragged down by exposition way too much even though the characters feel fully fleshed out and are even funny at times. The amalgamation of crafting and exploring is probably the best gameplay loop I’ve experienced for a while, even if it seems to drag on a little towards the end. All in all, for a first outing for a new developer, Yellow Brick Studios has created something magical that may not be for everyone but I’m sure it will be enjoyed thoroughly by many.
A fun and inventive action-RPG that combines a variety of mechanics with some fun characters, spells, and surprisingly in-depth worldbuilding.