Absolver Reviews
Absolver is a 3d fighter that shows off a very interesting engine, but doesn’t do enough with it. The game short, and the PVP is dying with player counts in the low triple digits.
Absolver had a chance to be something new and fresh. Its combat system is unlike anything else and comes packed with plenty of depth and skill that could get fighting fans pretty excited. The problem is the rest of the game.
While Absolver seems to get the combat aspect of things down well enough, it fails to back it up with any meaningful direction and content for players, resulting in an entirely forgettable experience.
The concept behind Absolver is intriguing, but its execution and lack of staying power make it a very tough recommendation. If you're willing to put up with tedium, maybe joining a guild and learning new moves will be for you. For others, I'd say give this a pass.
Squee: I was just waiting for it to be fun. And I'm still waiting.
Absolver is a great and interesting game as a whole, but the biggest part of the game, actually playing it, is both frustrating and unbalanced.
Absolver delivers on its promise of a compelling and unique combat system, but falls flat in almost every other way. Some baffling design decisions hold it back, so it's hard to recommend the game simply based on its combat.
Absolver is a title that, despite numerous problems, is trying to provide an engaging experience and can be said to have achieved some. If you're a fan of the fighting style or roleplaying, it's not bad to sit down and enjoy the game for hours.
Review in Persian | Read full review
Absolver has great battles and incredible online features. But not having an offline story mode, missions, fragile in-game environment and surroundings and the average music tracks has made this game an ordinary one.
Review in Persian | Read full review
Absolver is an amazing game buried underneath a ton of server issues and bugs.
With so many different ideas mixed in with a compelling fighting system, Absolver should be better than it is but comes off as needing a lot more work to become truly great, letalone good.
Absolver is a breath of a fresh air in fighting games genre. Deep system, surprisingly good fighting and addicitive multiplayer battles sadly are ruined by bugs and server lags.
Review in Polish | Read full review
While Absolver is up and down in a lot of places, the game just doesn't come together well. There's something about the underlying design that makes it feel disjointed. Most of this comes from the quasi-open world aspect, but the ridiculous level of grinding involved and the disconnected PvP mode makes Absolver feel like a game that's at war with itself. It certainly has the potential to be great though, with more of a focus on interweaving the PvE and PvP content as well as some expansions to the tight and narrow world of Adal and a very much needed mini-map system.
Absolver is a good attempt to make a complex martial arts simulator that suffers from a lack of a normal map, a small amount of content, a broken cooperative mode and a strange system of mastering moves. Developers should have added new zones, schools and tests, and at the same time make interesting missions and events for people who have played the game several times and just do not know what else to do.
Review in Russian | Read full review
Absolver can be rewarding for those that dedicate the appropriate amount of time and attention it requires, but its complexities can be hard to break into. Even when Absolver is mastered, the resulting expertise seems to have little impact on the competitive side of the experience.
A short and barren single-player adventure that's really only for players who want to dig into the multiplayer components
Absolver is a heavy hitter and as such, a lot of its punches are wild swings that miss their target.
Absolver is the kind of game that is brilliant when you focus on its combat, but when you start to look at the overall product you start to notice the imperfections.
If the network was more stable and the game played more to its strengths around one-on-one combat, this would be a game I'd recommend in a heartbeat. It's still well worth a look even with those flaws, but I can't help but imagine what could have been.
The combat is beautifully choreographed and well thought out. It's really fulfilling, but the game does little to help you figure out how to perfect certain moves.