Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Mostly Positive · 78%Mostly Positive · 78%2020

$39.99

US Steam price, checked 5 h ago

The verdict

A big, colorful, single-player-MMO-style action RPG with fun, flexible combat and rich lore. Skip it if you dislike repetitive fetch quests, dated visuals or a buggy PC port.

Great for

Fans of Fable, Skyrim or WoW-style fantasy who want flexible hybrid builds and a huge world to explore

Main risk

Repetitive MMO-style quests and enemies, plus old bugs that can soft-lock quests or saves

What players love

Fun, fluid combat

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews

“the combat is genuinely enjoyable. There are so many ways to customise your combat style to suit your play style, and Reckoning Mode is just SO FREAKING SATISFYING.”
Steam review · 413 h played ↗

“And yet the combat is suddenly really good: fast, meaty, and the weapons feel great.”
Steam review · translated · 0.8 h played ↗

“The combat is very fluid and enjoyable.”
Steam review · 10.4 h played ↗

Flexible hybrid builds and respec

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“The Destiny system allows players to mix warrior, rogue, and mage abilities freely, encouraging experimentation instead of locking players into rigid classes.”
Steam review · 43.7 h played ↗

“Build flexibility. Tired of being a pure Archmage? No problem, I reset my skills at the Fateweaver and became a poison-dagger mage-assassin.”
Steam review · translated · 81 h played ↗

“you can respec for a very small fee”
Steam review · 31.8 h played ↗

Charming, colorful art style

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews

“This game sells an absolutely amazing fantasy vibe, and its just cartoonish enough to make it feel like the best Saturday Morning Cartoon.”
Steam review · 33.1 h played ↗

“I like how the colors are bright. a nice contrast to Skyrim.”
Steam review · 32.8 h played ↗

Rich lore and world-building

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews

“It's a fantastic universe, with amazing lore and story-building.”
Steam review · 39.2 h played ↗

“I absolutely love the writing, which should not be a surprise, considering who is involved in the writing of this game.”
Steam review · 32.8 h played ↗

“If you like lore, there's a lot of it.”
Steam review · 119.4 h played ↗

Huge world with lots of content

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews

“The amount of side content is astounding as well, quite often surpassing what the main story offers.”
Steam review · 4 h played ↗

“for such an old game it has so so so much content.”
Steam review · 57.5 h played ↗

“An absolutely massive world to explore”
Steam review · 21.3 h played ↗

Great value on sale, runs on Deck and old PCs

Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews

“Buy it on sale and let's hope for a KoA2”
Steam review · 48.1 h played ↗

“Plays pretty well on the Steam Deck docked or otherwise.”
Steam review · 3.9 h played ↗

“it somehow play on my 15 year old potatoes power computer”
Steam review · 9.6 h played ↗

What players complain about

Repetitive MMO-style quests and enemies

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews

“The game immediately falls into a dated, offline-MMO loop with generic fetch quests and dull NPC dialogue.”
Steam review · 6.7 h played ↗

“An MMORPG with everything that makes MMORPGs fun removed, and nothing added to make a singleplayer fun.”
Steam review · translated · 56.6 h played ↗

“Very clearly intended to be an MMO and suffers from all the worst designs flaws of one but without the ability to spend time with friends.”
Steam review · 54.4 h played ↗

Stunlocking, shallow combat and poor rebinding

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews

“The combat of this game is literally just who can stunlock who first.”
Steam review · 54.7 h played ↗

“Cant rebind keys properly. If you try to rebind keys to another that already has an existing function, it will try to do both at the same time and glitch.”
Steam review · 0.5 h played ↗

“95% through an attack animation and get slapped by a Boggart? Attack cancelled. More than 1 Boggart? Have fun being stunlocked.”
Steam review · 57.7 h played ↗

Game-breaking quest and save bugs

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews

“ive come across a game breaking bug 40+ hours in that permanently makes you stuck in the main story questline”
Steam review · 43.7 h played ↗

“Then the save game corrupted randomly, no idea how. Now I can't save at all.”
Steam review · 36.4 h played ↗

“I never finished because of a bug in a main quest with the dwarf woman that stops progress.”
Steam review · translated · 55.1 h played ↗

Weak remaster for the price

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews

“Improved graphical fidelity in Re-Reckoning. That is all that was changed in this re-release.”
Steam review · 0.9 h played ↗

“Barely anything was done to remaster this game. None of the systems changed, none of the UI changed”
Steam review · 31 h played ↗

“It's not a remaster but just a re-released game, with no changes.”
Steam review · translated · 76.7 h played ↗

Crashes and poor stability

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews

“Sadly its ruined by constant crashes between 5 and 20 minutes apart once leaving the first village.”
Steam review · 5.4 h played ↗

“Game kept crashing each time i tried to reload a save after dying even trying to exit to the main menu caused a crash.”
Steam review · 3 h played ↗

“2.6 hours on record, 9 crash dumps in game folder. Can't even load a saved game.”
Steam review · 2.6 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Verified

Minimum

OSWindows 7, Windows, 8, Windows 10 (64 bit)

ProcessorIntel or AMD Dual Core CPU 2.5 GHz

Memory4 GB RAM

GraphicsDirectX 10 Feature Level AMD or NVIDIA Card with 1 GB VRAM

Storage40 GB available space

Recommended

OSWindows 7, Windows, 8, Windows 10 (64 bit)

ProcessorIntel or AMD Quad Core CPU 3 GHz

Memory8 GB RAM

GraphicsDirectX 11 Feature Level AMD or NVIDIA Card with 2 GB VRAM

Storage40 GB available space

OSWindows 7, Windows, 8, Windows 10 (64 bit)

ProcessorIntel or AMD Dual Core CPU 2.5 GHz

Memory4 GB RAM

GraphicsDirectX 10 Feature Level AMD or NVIDIA Card with 1 GB VRAM

Storage40 GB available space

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