A Plague Tale: Innocence Reviews

A Plague Tale: Innocence is ranked in the 86th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
No Recommendation / Blank
May 13, 2019

Children band together against the darkness of a collapsing France in this bleak and beautiful if somewhat rickety medieval fantasy.

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IGN
Top Critic
7 / 10.0
May 13, 2019

A Plague Tale: Innocence has a great story, but the gameplay has a level of convenience that undercuts the perilous world.

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72 / 100
May 24, 2019

Visually beautiful and emotionally affecting thanks to strong characters, A Plague Tale suffers from missing gameplay variety and tonal inconsistencies.

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8 / 10.0
May 13, 2019
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May 13, 2019

If you’re in the mood for a perfectly respectable, undemanding weekend game, A Plague Tale: Innocence is for you, though fair warning: The sight of so many dead bodies might shock anyone watching over your shoulder.

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Metro GameCentral
Top Critic
8 / 10
May 23, 2019

An impressively unique stealth adventure which mixes a gothic horror atmosphere with a touching tale of two siblings surviving against the odds.

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7.5 / 10.0
May 17, 2019

A Plague Tale excels in its narrative and setting, but the moment-to-moment action is uninspired

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8 / 10
May 13, 2019

A Plague's Tale's emotive story of resilience is underscored by a backdrop of screeching rats, the unremitting horrors of war, and a genuinely likeable cast of characters.

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May 14, 2019

It gets in its own way by deciding that something bigger was needed to keep the player’s attention. It’s a sour end to an otherwise great game.

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8 / 10.0
May 20, 2019

A Plague Tale: Innocence is a grim, gripping, and fantastic adventure. The solid stealth gameplay offers little new, but the unique setting, affecting characters, excellent dialogue, and oppressive atmosphere more than redress that linearity. Add to this a lean design, an emotive score, and a commitment to narrative focus, and A Plague Tale deserves to be heralded as one of 2019's very best adventures.

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TheSixthAxis
Top Critic
9 / 10
May 13, 2019

A Plague Tale: Innocence proves that feisty young women are the new heroes of single player narrative adventures, and Amicia can proudly stand alongside Aloy and Senua. Asobo Studios have knocked it out of the park with a compelling story, superb graphics, and excellent music. Loved it.

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84 / 100
May 13, 2019

Asobo Studios offers us a very narrative adventure, spectacular at times and with a realistic atmosphere.

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6.5 / 10.0
May 13, 2019

A Plague Tale: Innocence is a well crafted, classic adventure that offers a solid story with charismatic characters. However, it all goes wrong during the final chapters, when the game loses its head, the story becomes violent nonsense and the gameplay turns out to be highly frustrating.

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7 / 10
May 13, 2019

The latest Asobo Studio release is grim, gory, and a bit of a grind.

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8.5 / 10.0
May 13, 2019

Yes, A Plague Tale: Innocence is a great experience and you have to immerse yourself in it.

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9 / 10.0
May 14, 2019

A Plague Tale: Innocence is a game that deserves to be experienced by everyone. Although there is no possibility to choose a precise degree of difficulty, it manages to stimulate without ever being frustrating, highlighting a lot of skill in managing the rhythm.

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VG247
Top Critic
May 14, 2019

There’s a lot lifted from other games in A Plague Tale, but somehow there’s nothing cynical about it. This is a full-hearted reach for the big time of AAA storytelling that succeeds in the most important departments, thanks to its sparkling polish and subtle characterisation. It’s one of a handful of games for which I could tell you the personality traits and motivations of not just the protagonists, but four or five secondary characters. Consider this review a carrier: Asobo Studio is a name that’s going to spread.

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8 / 10.0
May 14, 2019

A compelling plot, grounded characters who aren't instant heroes, crafting and upgrades without arbitrary levelling and some beautiful environments to solve your way around,

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7 / 10
May 13, 2019

A Plague Tale: Innocence has some clunky writing in places, and its play gets stale after a time, but it prevails with a compelling mystery and a beautiful world.

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Unscored
May 13, 2019

I’ve been very positive about A Plague Tale so far, and it is indeed a good game.

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