Ash of Gods: Redemption Reviews
Ash of Gods visually looks like Banner Saga, but gameplay is slightly different and story is not so deep.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
Well, good news is that Ash of Gods isn't a complete clone of The Banner Saga. Bad news — this game took too much from the Stoic series, to the point that it feels like a user mod, with bad balance and poor writing.
Review in Russian | Read full review
For all the negatives that I’ve noted, and the all too familiar plot and game style, I enjoyed myself. The artistry is fantastic, and the world that is created is both beautiful and daunting in equal measure. The audio is fantastic, mostly and will transport you to the fantasy setting with ease. The dialogue is badly translated in places and leads to some odd moments that are devoid of emotion or sense. Is this worth adding to your library? I think so. Not a classic by any stretch, but it does enough to warrant being part of your library if you are a fan of the RPG genre. If you want a copy, it can be purchased here! Can you survive the Reaping? Plan your every move and hope for luck in this world that the gods have forgotten.
All in all, I was mostly pleased with Ash of Gods: Redemption. It attempts to mesh two vastly different genres and mostly succeeds. While there are rough spots that were frustrating, I still was able to get through the game without too much difficulty. After my time with the game, I got about 32% of the achievements, meaning there’s still a lot left to discover, including at least six more endings. Though some aspects of the game weren’t as streamlined as I would have liked, I still managed to enjoy my time with it. For $24.99, you really can’t go wrong, especially if you’re a fan of tactical RPGs.
Ash of Gods: Redeption is a big promise. This visual novel with RPG combat is a game for remember. Due to, principaly, its soundtrack and artistic style. The music is a delicate work that transports you to a medieval era and the drawing is raw tracing of the horror that lives in game.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Ash of Gods: Redemption is a game to take into consideration within its genre, and it has tried to be ambitious in its presentation, history, and staging, although perhaps for this reason it has neglected some factors such as greater playable balance, controls more intuitive, and in our particular case, a better translation. Anyway, any fan of the genre, and especially if you have already enjoyed The Banner Saga, which our game takes a lot from, we have to give it a try.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Ash of Gods: Redemption is a mix of visual novel and turn based strategy. It excels in the case of former, but is severely lacking in the case of latter, providing us with great visuals and vast dialog (not voiced), but easy and unremarkable grid based fighting.
Review in Polish | Read full review
"Beautiful and extremely buggy mess."
Review in Finnish | Read full review
Overall, Ash of Gods is not a bad game.
Ash of Gods: Redemption is an amazing game. The dark and gritty fantasy theme and it's disheartening story is actually refreshing and breaks the mold for turn-based RPGs. It's a game I never knew I needed to play in 2018.
The dialogues and some of the choice options could be both better translated and perhaps written with a bit more panache, but they are not so awful as to ruin the entire game. In short, Ash of Gods: Redemption is a game to keep in your checklist if you enjoy turn based combat, rogue-like elements, moral dilemmas, enticing art style and a solid story to boot.
The combat requires thought and is engaging if you like the puzzly vibe created by Banner Saga (which this game copies well beyond the level of homage). But the massive amounts of nonsensical text you're forced to read leech out any fun the gorgeous graphics and brilliant soundtrack create.
Odd translation and wonky combat makes Ash of Gods not only to live in the shadow of The Banner Saga, it fails to capture what made the games developed by Stoic so amazing.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
That’s not to insinuate that my experience with Ash of Gods was anything resembling good, though, because this game is capable of disappointing entirely on its own merits. Everything about it fails in one way or another, from the confused analogies that read like a drunk Tolkien as performed by Google Translate to the combat alternating between being pointlessly easy and groan-inducingly tedious. The visuals and music are the only things that don’t disappoint in some way, but they alone can’t support this game’s full weight.
A solid experience with a few problems that hold it back from genuine greatness. Great artwork and soundtrack are key features while localization issues and cheesy dialogue can take you out of the fantasy somewhat.