Earth's Dawn Reviews

Earth's Dawn is ranked in the 34th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Chinh Tran
Top Critic
Unscored
Nov 2, 2016

Although Oneoreight Studios has put together a competent game with promising ideas, the potential is never fully realized.

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7.4 / 10.0
Oct 28, 2016

Solid gameplay can get repetitive, but the quirky art style keeps things interesting, and there is great replay value.

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75%
Nov 30, 2016

Earth’s Dawn is a surprisingly refreshing game that I fully expected to be chore.

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7 / 10.0
Nov 15, 2016

Earth’s Dawn is a good Side Scrolling Brawler. With the freedom to evolve your character as you see fit for the missions ahead, the mission based structure can be useful even if it is repetitive allowing you to quickly go in and out of missions in order to obtain materials for new gear or to simply waste time for the next large scaled mission.

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6 / 10.0
Oct 25, 2016

earth's Dawn is a poor man's Odin Sphere, but a decade too late. Crafting and upgrading might help elevate spirits throughout your playthrough, but the combat and execution prevents Earth's Dawn from being anything special.

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7 / 10
Nov 14, 2016

Whilst there's a lot of enjoyment to be found from carving the aliens into tiny pieces, the campaign offers nothing of real consequence. Earth's Dawn feels like a game that could have been improved using permadeath or more significant time management implementation. Instead, we've got a fun, if disposable beat ‘em up.

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7.5 / 10.0
Dec 8, 2016

Earth’s Dawn is a stylish action RPG with a few noticeable flaws that prevent it from achieving greatness. Its complex skill tree, exhilarating boss fights and in-depth crafting mechanics will keep some players busy for a long time, but others may be discouraged by the game’s repetitiveness and annoying difficulty spikes.

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7.1 / 10.0
Nov 7, 2016

Earth's Dawn is a solid 2D action game that unfortunately suffers from repetition and irritating difficulty spikes.

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Dec 20, 2016

It’s engaging, exciting and works hard to keep pulling you back in.

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7 / 10
Nov 9, 2016

Fans of action-RPGs can’t do much wrong checking Earth’s Dawn out, but it’s by no means essential.

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10 / 10
Nov 4, 2016

The game is very addictive, the graphics are really vibrant and great despite its post-apocalyptic backdrop. The missions offer a nice variety and can be replayed to get better ranks. The crafting system is simple and fun. The gameplay is solid and very entertaining. After reading my Earth’s Dawn review you’ve surely realized this is a must-have on PS4, so be sure to download it today!

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7 / 10.0
Nov 2, 2016

A competent 2D hack and slash with a great manga aesthetic and a deep crafting system. It's not going to blow you away, but there are hours of content to get through if you get hooked on the gameplay. Otherwise, you might find the repetition a little grating by the end of the game.

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3 / 5.0
Oct 26, 2016

Earth’s Dawn has many good ideas going for it, but unfortunately doesn’t execute them in a way that brings excellence to the action RPG genre.

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4 / 10.0
Feb 3, 2017

A game which offers a lot of depth for player choice, but poor execution makes all the effort feel pointless. Earth's Dawn tries to make up for its lack of content with too much repetitive gameplay.

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Nov 17, 2016

This is like if you took Earth Defense Force, Starship Troopers and Guardian Heroes and tossed them into a blender. A wonderfully action packaged game, tons of fun combat and a vast customization system, Earth's Dawn is well worth the price of admission.

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6.5 / 10.0
Oct 26, 2016

There is plenty to like about the combat in Earth’s Dawn, but the game doesn’t manage to reach its full potential. A boring story gives players very little reason to care about what they are doing or reason to progress, and the game ultimately becomes monotonous due to this. Those who enjoyed Odin Sphere will find an intriguing game here, just one that isn’t nearly as special or polished.

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ACG
Top Critic
Rent
Oct 26, 2016
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88 / 100
Nov 8, 2016

On paper, it’s a generic story but as the game goes on it serves to be just interesting enough to make it give the player some extra drive.

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6 / 10
Nov 1, 2016

The foundations of a fast-paced and well worked action RPG are alive and well in this post-apocalyptic wasteland, but Earth's Dawn is let down by repetition and difficulty spikes. If you can stomach the negatives and keep chipping away at the release's robust progression systems, you'll find an impressive amount of depth and enjoyment to be had in forging your super solider – but you'll never quite shake the feeling that this could and should have been a better game than it is.

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Wccftech
Top Critic
7.4 / 10.0
Nov 13, 2016

Earth's Dawn ultimately ends up feeling too familiar to truly stand apart as a new classic, but it can still be a lot of fun.

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