Enclave

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

Mostly Positive · 76%Mostly Positive · 76%2013

The verdict

A janky but charming 2002 dark-fantasy hack-and-slash with Light and Dark campaigns and a great soundtrack. Skip it if you need smooth combat or won't fiddle with old-game fixes.

Great for

Nostalgic fans of old-school third-person fantasy action who can tolerate tinkering and clunky combat

Main risk

Broken hit detection plus speed-up and crash problems on modern PCs can make it frustrating or unplayable

What players love

Varied classes, weapons and gold-based gear

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“The level up system is entirely currency based, which encourages level exploration and encourages you to replay missions to find any loot you may have missed.”
Steam review · 14.8 h played ↗

“New classes you can play keep unlocking over time.”
Steam review · translated · 19.5 h played ↗

Nostalgic old-school charm

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“I still feel almost the exact same feelings from being a kid when I boot Enclave up.”
Steam review · 13.3 h played ↗

“Enclave is like finding an old fantasy VHS in your attic: a bit dusty, a bit clunky, but still kind of charming.”
Steam review · 20.4 h played ↗

Two campaigns: Light and Dark

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“One of the few I know of where you can play as both the good guys and the bad guys in alternate timelines.”
Steam review · 2.7 h played ↗

“Two campaigns makes it worth replaying. See the other side of the war.”
Steam review · 4.7 h played ↗

“Played through Light and Dark: both campaigns are cool, but Light feels somehow warmer.”
Steam review · translated · 11.7 h played ↗

Great atmosphere and music

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews

“the atmosphere and music are still top-notch”
Steam review · 56.6 h played ↗

“very catching music, no chore open world checklists”
Steam review · 29.5 h played ↗

“the atmosphere and music are still top-notch here”
Steam review · translated · 0.5 h played ↗

Official Russian voiceover added

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews

“Now fully in Russian. Respect to everyone who waited for this!”
Steam review · translated · 1.2 h played ↗

“A magnificent old-school action game, now with awesome Russian voiceover too!!!”
Steam review · translated · 20.4 h played ↗

Impressive visuals and level design for 2002

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews

“Surprised by the amazing graphics for 2002.”
Steam review · translated · 6 h played ↗

“Art style can still keep up today”
Steam review · 27.5 h played ↗

What players complain about

Broken hit detection and clunky combat

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews

“Frequently my character would be wildly swinging a weapon over the head of my enemy while he freely hewed me in the chest.”
Steam review · 4.6 h played ↗

“50% of hits go nowhere, you swing like mad up close praying it connects while the weapon passes through the enemy”
Steam review · translated · 12.1 h played ↗

“Most of the time you are missing your hits because weapon animations are so strange, your character keep swinging above goblins”
Steam review · 4.8 h played ↗

Aged badly, repetitive and shallow

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews

“Unless you possess a heavy dose of nostalgia for its unique dark fantasy world, it’s difficult to recommend this title today.”
Steam review · 3.8 h played ↗

“if you're like me and this is your first exposure to this game, you'll probably hate it.”
Steam review · 1.1 h played ↗

Broken on modern PCs: runs too fast

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews

“The game runs way too fast which is apparently linked to your mouse's polling rate.”
Steam review · 0.2 h played ↗

“in the game itself all gameplay is sped up 10 times”
Steam review · translated · 0.5 h played ↗

“game is lighting fast, you press a key and you walk 20 meter in 0.5s”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗

Frequent crashes

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews

“Game just keep on crashing all the time.”
Steam review · 5.1 h played ↗

“The game constantly crashes, and with no mid-mission saves it becomes simply unplayable.”
Steam review · translated · 0.5 h played ↗

“I couldn't pass any stage without see the game crashing like 8 times”
Steam review · 4.1 h played ↗

Bad jumping, swimming and unbalanced difficulty

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews

“ABSOLUTELY WORST SWIMMING MECHANICS IN VIDEO GAME HISTORY”
Steam review · 17.9 h played ↗

No manual saves, sparse checkpoints

Mentioned in ~1 in 14 negative reviews

“This imbecile save system autosaves the game only between missions, checkpoints are respawn points only, they don't save the game.”
Steam review · 0.5 h played ↗

“there are no manual saves, only checkpoints”
Steam review · translated · 8.7 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Unknown

Minimum

OSWindows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10

ProcessorIntel or AMD Single Core CPU

Memory1 GB RAM

Graphicswith TnL support and 128 MB RAM

Storage5 GB available space

Recommended

OSWindows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10

ProcessorIntel or AMD Multi-Core CPU with 2.0 GHz

Memory2 GB RAM

Graphicswith Shader 2.0 support and 256 MB RAM

Storage5 GB available space

OSWindows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10

ProcessorIntel or AMD Single Core CPU

Memory1 GB RAM

Graphicswith TnL support and 128 MB RAM

Storage5 GB available space

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