GRAVEN Reviews

A very cool concept overall and I like the gameplay and the weapons and the way the game looks and plays. It does seem like they're trying to copy dark souls with certain things and its good at times but it also can be pretty bad, I don't like the checkpoint system in the game, it kinda sucks since there's no quicksave or manual save of any kind so you can't go back if you mess up you just die and lose gold and go back to the last checkpoint you activated. The worst part is that whenever you leave the game and go back in it won't respawn you at the last checkpoint instead it will spawn you at the village/safe zone so you have to walk all the way back to where you were which sucks, one of the big problems with this is a part where you need to pick up gears to activate an elevator, if you activate that elevator and then leave and come back the elevator won't work again so that's annoying, there was no other way I could have progressed as I hadn't unlocked any shortcuts yet so I had to use cheat engine. This is one of quite a few problems I've seen with the game, it definitely lacks QA and polish, for example when you open chests coins fly out and get stuck up high on walls where you can't get them, for some reason when you shoot skeleton enemies their clothes disappear which looks dumb, some enemies teleport around and inside you when fighting them, some enemies just randomly stand still and don't attack, especially the big enemies. The swimming sometimes is very annoying trying to climb out of water barely works half of the time. There's an ice spell that can freeze water but that also doesn't work properly half of the time. One of the weapons is a sort of grenade launcher and one time I shot it and it stuck to myself somehow. The game has a few areas with really bad framerate for some reason, even lowering graphics settings doesn't help so that's dumb considering what the game looks like. I did experience a weird crash once also. So yeah the game has many bugs and annoying things with it, enemies do way too much damage in my opinion, I almost never want to pick up armor since it'll be gone within 5 minutes, some enemies projectiles are hard to dodge sometimes so getting hit is inevitable. There's a stamina system in the game too which really sucks and it shouldn't be in this type of game. Aside from that though the game does have its good points. Lots of enemies and weapons, puzzles and secret areas, lots of upgrades to acquire to improve your arsenal. Lots of big levels with lots of barrels to whack, a few cool bosses and nice music, sound and atmosphere overall. Its just a shame with the lack of QA and some questionable design choices but I think it is a good game deep down. I definitely wouldn't recommend this game at full price so definitely get at a discount 6.5/10

A buggy mess of a game with the worst combat systems you can imagine, the library boss has a hitbox which drains your entire ammo pool simply because the weapons do not work properly and fire all over the place, the mini boss under the library which forces you into a close quarters fight which you are not at all made for due to how fragile your character is and this is after a horrible timed door that is so hard to get through because of the terrain being bugged and then no checkpoint, and finally the cherry on top you they have disabled the quick save and load functions and completely ignored the fact i have things to do in real life. if you want to suffer play this, otherwise don't touch it, absolute rubbish

Great game. Very much what I was hoping for based on the hype. Scratches the Heretic/Heretic 2 itch.

It's an okay game. It looks nice and has a nice gameplay, but it still feels unfinished. Lots of bugs, map errors and game crashes.