Betrayer
- March 23, 2014
- Blackpowder Games
- 10h median play time
It starts promising and gets better in the final act, but the bulk of Betrayer's journey is let down by inconsistent quality, repeat enemies, and investigative drudgery.
Get on SteamBetrayer is a first person action adventure game that takes you to the New World at the turn of the 17th century. The year is 1604. You sailed from England expecting to join a struggling colony on the coast of Virginia. Instead, you find only ghosts and mysteries. What catastrophe blighted the land and drained it of color and life?
PC
Steam Deck
Windows
Reviews
- story2,161 mentions
- 34 % positive mentions
- 61 % neutral mentions
- 5 % negative mentions
- gameplay1,183 mentions
- 29 % positive mentions
- 60 % neutral mentions
- 11 % negative mentions
- atmosphere1,031 mentions
- 60 % positive mentions
- 39 % neutral mentions
- 1 % negative mentions
- graphics906 mentions
- 47 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 3 % negative mentions
- music152 mentions
- 22 % positive mentions
- 59 % neutral mentions
- 18 % negative mentions
- grinding130 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
- replayability60 mentions
- 3 % positive mentions
- 70 % neutral mentions
- 27 % negative mentions
- emotional38 mentions
- 100 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
- stability30 mentions
- 20 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 80 % negative mentions
- optimization24 mentions
- 50 % positive mentions
- 25 % neutral mentions
- 25 % negative mentions
- funny8 mentions
- 100 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
- character development4 mentions
- 50 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 50 % negative mentions
- ads2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
Critic Reviews
Betrayer review
It starts promising and gets better in the final act, but the bulk of Betrayer's journey is let down by inconsistent quality, repeat enemies, and investigative drudgery.
62%Betrayer Review (PC)
Although Betrayer brings many good ideas to the table, the mix fails to homogenize in a meaningful manner, and the game’s shortcomings begin pestering you while you repeat the same patterns over and over. It has a great atmosphere and it starts out ominous and intriguing, but eventually it fails to meet its potential. It feels very rough around the edges, from some questionable design decisions to the shoddy combat mechanics and ‘90s sprinting, and by the time you go through the same motions in the fifth area you’ll end up feeling like the game is somehow unfinished. Betrayer looks great and plays decently, up to a point, but what it gains in the very well crafted environments it loses in almost all other areas, making the great stories you uncover along your way diminish in value. Overall, it fails to satisfy. The tiny morsels of the colonists’ fates that you are slowly being fed throughout the game are truly enticing, and the visuals and sound effects especially are remarkable, but unfortunately the unique setting is marred by uninspired gameplay that wastes the game’s potential.
70%Betrayer Review
Betrayer's gorgeous presentation can't save it from being a first-person shooter with an identity crisis.
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