Darksiders III Reviews

Darksiders III is ranked in the 37th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Nov 26, 2018

A broken mess of a game, Darksiders 3 is a sequel that's dramatically reduced in scope, with mundane combat and a story that feels like the series is running in place.

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Nov 16, 2021

I’m an admirer of the Darksiders franchise, with its heart on its sleeve inspirations from the greats of gaming such as Zelda, Diablo, God Of War and now Dark Souls!

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Nov 28, 2018

There’s little to love about Darksiders III, even for longtime fans.

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4 / 10
Nov 19, 2021

Darksiders III gets its shot on the Nintendo Switch, in a conversion work that includes the whole content of the original, now with the added advantage of being able to play anywhere. Alas, there aren't many more factors working in its favour. Not only does this version come with no additional content whatsoever - which would be very welcome, three years after its release - but its sub-par technical performance makes it increasingly frustrating as the game gets more ambitious.

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Dec 20, 2018

Gamers also cannot necessarily be that disappointed with the game, which might never have happened thanks to the original THQ’s implosion. Players anxiously awaiting From Software’s Sekiro or even Metroid Prime 4 might get a decent kick out of another one of these sorts of action adventure games. On the other hand, its technical bugs and lack of depth keep it from being a highly recommended title, and a mixed start to THQ Nordic’s budget-game gambit.

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4 / 10.0
Nov 27, 2018

Darksiders 3 has heart, but a lot of the organs around it are failing, detracting from the experience. So much has been stripped away from the other Darksiders games, making it far too easy to stare at the flaws.

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2 / 5.0
Dec 20, 2018

A poorly presented game that is best left for purchase from a dump bin.

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4 / 10.0
Nov 26, 2018

Darksiders 3 is a game that's never quite sure what it wants to be, and suffers for it.

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4 / 10
Sep 29, 2021

Darksiders III on Switch is a poor port of a distinctly average entry in the series. Constant technical issues make fighting and platforming more frustrating than fun, long loading times follow every death and the further along you get, the worse these issues seem to become. It's a shame as we're pretty big fans of the series in general, but if you have any other means of playing this one we'd advise you give this clunky version a miss.

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Daily Dot
Top Critic
Nov 28, 2018

As it stands, Darksiders III is sadly unremarkable.

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Nov 26, 2018

For a game all about destroying the manifestations of sin, Darksiders 3 is guilty of a lot of them.

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4 / 10
Nov 26, 2018

Darksiders return is marred by bland environments and an unfocused design that can't help but frustrate and underwhelm.

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Metro GameCentral
GameCentral
Top Critic
4 / 10
Nov 26, 2018

It commits no cardinal sins but this belated return to the world of Darksiders comes across as shallow, frustrating, and disappointingly dull.

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5 / 10.0
Dec 2, 2018

'Darksiders III' is like a Darksiders game from another reality. It still plays like Darksiders, but it's void of the fun finesse fans have come to expect, and instead of establishing excitement for its sequel, it just makes you want to go back and play the old ones.

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Cubed3
Athanasios
Top Critic
5 / 10
Oct 28, 2021

Third time's not the charm in the case of Darksiders III, which is a - mostly - mediocre third entry in a line of games that weren't really that great to begin with. The quality of the Switch port doesn't help either, not so much because of its downgraded visuals, but because of its severe frame rate dips, and long load times, something that plagued the original versions as well. At least Fury looks cool…

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Digiato
Rasoul Kheradmandi
Top Critic
50 / 100
Dec 5, 2018

As an individual who enjoyed the two first games and is interested in tales of Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, I felt nothing after finishing Darksiders III. I wan't happy or mad, this is a game that fails to please the fans and doesn't have anything for the newcomers.

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GameSkinny
Top Critic
Nov 26, 2018

Darksiders 3 is a major downgrade with simplified design, slower Souls-style combat, and a lack of anything to distinguish it from any other action game.

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Drew Hurley
Top Critic
5 / 10
Nov 26, 2018

A game out of time; it's wonderful for fans of the series to actually get their hands on this title that almost ended up on the trash pile with the death of THQ, but Darksiders III is so riddled with issues that they just can't be ignored. It feels like a game that was developed many years ago and then put on a shelf, finally now to be released. It feels worse than both previous entries and, worse, it feels more dated than the originals. It's so sad to see this franchise that held so much promise fall so far, and worse it seems unlikely to recover, either. The game hints at a fourth iteration, again retreading the same time period, this time in the shoes of the fourth Horseman, Strife, but if it's of the same level of quality as this compared to previous titles, it may be better if it never arrives.

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5 / 10.0
Nov 26, 2018

At the end of the day, Darksiders 3 is four years too late and four years behind current game design.

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5 / 10
Nov 26, 2018

When combat is between you and one other, Darksiders 3 can provide some decent, button-mashy fun, but the real fight is with the baffling world design and some cheap deaths.

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