Gorgeous world and atmosphere
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 positive reviews
“The visuals are stunning and the world has real atmosphere”
Steam review · 31.9 h played ↗
Gothic Playable Teaser
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Mostly Positive · 71%Mostly Positive · 71%THQ Nordic Barcelona2019Action RPG · RPG · Action
The verdict
A free, rough 2019 proof-of-concept for the Gothic remake, with nice visuals and quests but clunky combat and a hero who never shuts up. Skip it if you want real Gothic; it's scrapped.
Great for
Gothic fans curious about the scrapped early remake direction, and achievement hunters
Main risk
Feels nothing like Gothic, plays clunky and buggy, and was replaced by the real remake
What players love
Interesting quests with branching choices
Mentioned in ~1 in 19 positive reviews
“The quests are interesting. There is some replayability, and your choices really do affect things in most cases”
Steam review · 6.8 h played ↗
Combat has potential once learned
Mentioned in ~1 in 19 positive reviews
“For Honor combat is just fun, It's slow, methodical and thus very in line with the original while also feeling new and fresh.”
Steam review · 2.7 h played ↗
Free playable teaser that gathered feedback
Mentioned in ~1 in 21 positive reviews
“the developers released this specifically to gather community feedback rather than just shipping something half-baked, and that kind of approach deserves recognition”
Steam review · 31.9 h played ↗
Better than the later Nyras demo
Mentioned in ~1 in 38 positive reviews
“this Playable Teaser from 2019 is... Better.”
Steam review · 8.2 h played ↗
What players complain about
Clunky, awkward For Honor-style combat
Mentioned in ~1 in 2 negative reviews
“The combat is an absolute mess. Most of the time I find myself swinging at the air rather than the enemy right in front of me”
Steam review · 0.6 h played ↗
Protagonist talks nonstop
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“protagonist wouldn't shut up about every single action he is taking”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗
Not Gothic: too bright, no atmosphere
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“This is not Gothic. It felt too bright, the combat was clunky, and the atmosphere was way off.”
Steam review · 4.2 h played ↗
Bad performance, crashes and bugs
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“The game also crashed a few times”
Steam review · 1 h played ↗
Poor writing and off-character Diego and hero
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“Diego was poorly re-written as well.”
Steam review · 0.5 h played ↗
Unskippable long cutscenes and dialogue
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“the unskippable cutscenes are horrendous”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: UnknownController support5 GB
Minimum
OSWindows 7 / 8 / 10 64 bit
ProcessorAMD FX-8320 (3,5 GHz) / Intel i5-4690K (3,5 GHz) or better
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsAMD Radeon RX 480 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 with 4 GB VRAM
Storage5 GB available space
Recommended
OSWindows 7 / 8 / 10 64 bit
ProcessorIntel Core i7-3930K (3.2 GHz) / AMD Ryzen 5 1600 (3.2 GHz) or better
Memory16 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060
Storage5 GB available space
OSWindows 7 / 8 / 10 64 bit
ProcessorAMD FX-8320 (3,5 GHz) / Intel i5-4690K (3,5 GHz) or better
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsAMD Radeon RX 480 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 with 4 GB VRAM
Storage5 GB available space
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