Guild Wars® Reforged

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

Very Positive · 87%Very Positive · 87%2025

$19.99

US Steam price, checked 2 h ago

The verdict

A deep, build-focused co-op RPG with a great skill system, no subscription and tons of content for about $20. It's a dated 2005 game, so skip it if you want modern polish or a busy open world.

Great for

Nostalgic veterans and solo players who enjoy buildcrafting, hero parties and old-school RPGs without subscriptions

Main risk

What players love

Nostalgia and atmosphere with great music

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews

“The music, the pretty fields by the riverside, the slow introduction of skills as you learn to play your profession... Love it.”
Steam review · 120.8 h played ↗

“Have to play with the volume up though because the soundtrack is truly one of the highlights of the game.”
Steam review · 8.9 h played ↗

“Bought it purely for the soundtrack, and it turned out to be a quite decent game.”
Steam review · translated · 13 h played ↗

Deep buildcrafting and skill system

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“Pick this up if you want to use your brain to make a class, rather than just getting skills fed to you”
Steam review · 50 h played ↗

“There is nothing else that has the gameplay loop of the original guild wars. The mixture of skill collecting + build crafting + real-time combat (not turn based) creates a unique feeling and addictive game”
Steam review · 130.1 h played ↗

“MMOs are better when you can only have a limited amount of skills equipped, but with 100s to choose from.”
Steam review · 30.6 h played ↗

Playable solo with heroes and henchmen

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“best single player MMO of our time. No friends? No problem. You get 8 free ones in Cantha.”
Steam review · 401.1 h played ↗

“The game is 100% playable solo and plays very well on the Steam Deck.”
Steam review · 245.1 h played ↗

“I love that you can clear content completely solo by setting up your own team of heroes, each with handcrafted builds”
Steam review · 23.2 h played ↗

Great value with huge content, no subscription

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews

“For $20 you receive what was originally three distinct games that were $40 each when they came out, so as a deal it's pretty unbeatable.”
Steam review · 42 h played ↗

“the value of $20 for all the campaigns (minus Eye of the North) and this game is one of the best "bang for buck" values on the market”
Steam review · 341.2 h played ↗

“No subscription, no boring endless questing and text walls, no dailies that incentivize you to make unhealthy habits”
Steam review · 6.8 h played ↗

Steam Deck and controller support work well

Mentioned in ~1 in 12 positive reviews

“Runs flawlessly on Steamdeck at 60 FPS.”
Steam review · 0.2 h played ↗

“3 Hours in, and it's a Joy on the Steam Deck.”
Steam review · 3.1 h played ↗

“They did a phenomenal job adding controller support.”
Steam review · 20 h played ↗

Respects your time: no gear treadmill or FOMO

Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews

“No gear treadmill, easy to return after long breaks.”
Steam review · 349 h played ↗

“this game respects your time! very limited pointless grinding of levels and so forth”
Steam review · 266.5 h played ↗

“the no FOMO aspect and being able to play solo is what ive missed!”
Steam review · 823 h played ↗

What players complain about

Login, account linking and DLC problems

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews

“Can't create a new account because my CD key is already in use.”
Steam review · 21.8 h played ↗

“I am caught in an endless loop of being unable to access a game I own.”
Steam review · 9.1 h played ↗

“Unless you buy the game twice, one to create your arena account, and a second copy to launch directly from Steam.”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗

Dated design, no jumping, invisible walls, poor QoL

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews

“You still cannot jump, and the worst part is the invisible walls found everywhere.”
Steam review · 126.9 h played ↗

“Not one iota of the QoL you'd expect in a remastered classic”
Steam review · 5.7 h played ↗

“Guild Wars' design and mechanics feel particularly archaic and outdated.”
Steam review · 7.1 h played ↗

Reforged barely changed the game

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews

“so what exactly was "reforged" ??? the game looks and feels exactly as i remember it.”
Steam review · 1.4 h played ↗

“Don't be deceived by the new flashy title, they've done virtually nothing to the game”
Steam review · 96.9 h played ↗

“Let's be honest, Reforged is total garbage, you won't see any difference from the original.”
Steam review · translated · 1 h played ↗

Brutal difficulty and poor NPC party AI

Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews

“This game is brutally hard. 3 of us tried three campaigns did not complete any.”
Steam review · 163.5 h played ↗

“the npc's are literally braindead and afk and every pull is 1v10”
Steam review · 286.6 h played ↗

“Playing with heroes just feels like figuring out what skills the heroes will at least sort of use correctly”
Steam review · 3.5 h played ↗

Empty world, few players, bots

Mentioned in ~1 in 12 negative reviews

“I've loved this game my whole life but no one wants to play it with me.”
Steam review · 37.7 h played ↗

“Bots are everywhere because there's no enforcement.”
Steam review · 600.4 h played ↗

“Finding a party here is unrealistic, barely 1k people online on Steam.”
Steam review · translated · 9 h played ↗

Pay-to-win microtransactions added

Mentioned in ~1 in 25 negative reviews

“Devs have decided to add pay for power consumable item microtransactions into the game.”
Steam review · 39.2 h played ↗

“In August 2026, Pay-To-Win mechanics were added to the game.”
Steam review · 477.3 h played ↗

“Well after 20 years they added P2W items into the game.”
Steam review · 2232.4 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Verified

Minimum

OSMicrosoft Windows 7 32-bit

ProcessorIntel Pentium III 1.0 GHz or equivalent

Memory2 GB RAM

GraphicsATI Radeon 8500 or NVIDIA GeForce 3 Series Video Card with 64MB of VRAM

Storage4 GB available space

Recommended

OSMicrosoft Windows 7

ProcessorIntel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz or equivalent

Memory4 GB RAM

GraphicsATI Radeon 9600 or NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Series Video Card or above

Storage4 GB available space

OSMicrosoft Windows 7 32-bit

ProcessorIntel Pentium III 1.0 GHz or equivalent

Memory2 GB RAM

GraphicsATI Radeon 8500 or NVIDIA GeForce 3 Series Video Card with 64MB of VRAM

Storage4 GB available space

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