Nostalgia and a starting point for Xenoverse 2
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“You'll also be allowed to import your character into the second game for some cameos!”
Steam review · 4.9 h played ↗
DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Very Positive · 90%Very Positive · 90%DIMPS2015Fighting · Action · Adventure
The verdict
A flawed but charming Dragon Ball RPG-fighter where you star in the story as your own custom fighter. Skip it if you hate grinding and RNG or want online play; Xenoverse 2 is better.
Great for
Dragon Ball fans who want to live the story as their own custom hero, ideally bought cheap on sale
Main risk
Heavy RNG grinding, unfair spammy enemy AI, dead servers, and a sequel that does everything better
What players love
Create your own fighter in the DB story
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“Getting to replay the best parts of the legendary series but as your own created characters.”
Steam review · 30.4 h played ↗
Engaging what-if story with anime cutscenes
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“the story is shockingly good and all of the core systems that built xenoverse started here.”
Steam review · 8.3 h played ↗
Fast, fluid, fun combat
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“The combat feels fluid and very enjoyable.”
Steam review · 210.1 h played ↗
Great value on sale
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 positive reviews
“with a sale price of $1.99 if your trying to dragonball on a budget this is a very solid game”
Steam review · 4.5 h played ↗
Runs well on low-end PCs
Mentioned in ~1 in 21 positive reviews
“runs very well on my crap laptop”
Steam review · 163.8 h played ↗
What players complain about
Xenoverse 2 makes this redundant
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“The game is basically redundant now because Xenoverse 2 features the story and every single stage/character from the first game.”
Steam review · 50.8 h played ↗
Spammy super-armor enemies and weak ally AI
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“difficulty is completely artificial, ai doesn't get more intelligent at all, it simply gets more hp, a 'super armor' mechanic through which they simply ignore attacks”
Steam review · 17.2 h played ↗
Dated, clunky, basic combat
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“Hasn't aged well at all. The gameplay is so clunky and somehow feels worse than the PS2 games.”
Steam review · 2.5 h played ↗
Grindy, repetitive RNG drops
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“you have to go to a side quest, hope you get RNG for a special encounter, then RNG that the encounter drops the item you need, and do that 200-300 times.”
Steam review · 47.5 h played ↗
Servers down and online dead
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“Amazing Game, but the servers have been down for almost two months”
Steam review · 48.1 h played ↗
Black screen, crashes and bugs
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“Game keeps crashing at first quest for me I tried to do another quest and it also crashed.”
Steam review · 0.5 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Playable10 GB
Minimum
OSWindows Vista (x64) / Windows 7 (x64)
ProcessorIntel Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+, 2.6GHz
Memory2 GB RAM
Graphics512 MB Nvidia GeForce 8800 / ATI Radeon HD 3870
Storage10 GB available space
Recommended
OSWindows Vista (x64) / Windows 7 (x64) / Windows 8 (x64)
ProcessorIntel Core i3-530, 2.93 GHz / AMD Phenom II X4 940, 3.0GHz
Memory4 GB RAM
Graphics1 GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 550Ti / AMD Radeon HD 6790
Storage10 GB available space
OSWindows Vista (x64) / Windows 7 (x64)
ProcessorIntel Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+, 2.6GHz
Memory2 GB RAM
Graphics512 MB Nvidia GeForce 8800 / ATI Radeon HD 3870
Storage10 GB available space
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