Ethereal Legends

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Ethereal Legends is a single player role playing game. It was developed by Soverance Studios and was released on February 21, 2017. It received negative reviews from players.

A powerful foe has descended upon the world of Arcadia. The Ethereal Knights, protectors of the realm, have nearly all been destroyed. Only you remain. Enter the portal and defend the Ethereal Realms from the evil which plagues them.

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19%

Audience ScoreBased on 16 reviews

graphics4 positive mentions

optimization5 negative mentions

The game features nice graphics and animations with a unique look for each map, providing a good sense of immersion.
Boss fights are fun and challenging initially, appealing to fans of old-school dungeon crawler RPGs and 'Souls-like' games.
The developer is actively improving the game, responding to feedback and committed to adding more content.

The game suffers from poor optimization, bugs, glitches, and collision detection issues that impact gameplay and performance.
Controls and combat are clunky, unintuitive, and unresponsive, with problematic key bindings and camera control.
The game lacks a proper tutorial or introduction, has weak story elements, repetitive level design, and a confusing user interface.

graphics
10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's graphics receive mixed reviews, with some praising the unique map designs and animations, while others criticize it as outdated and subpar, likening it to 1999-era visuals. Performance issues, such as stuttering even on capable hardware, and poor optimization further detract from the overall graphical experience.
- “The graphics are very nice and each map has a unique look and style.”
- “The graphics and looks of this game are subpar, the game is poorly optimized, and it feels early access even though it isn't.”
- “Graphically it is acceptable although its actual performance is less than stellar (stuttering at 1440p on a 1080).”
- “With decent optimization, with graphics and style like displayed in the screenshots, with decent action combat system that feels responsive and adjusted controls for PC instead of controller, it might have been a small gem.”
optimization
7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
29%
71%
The game suffers from poor optimization, leading to performance issues such as stuttering and crashes even on high-end machines. While the graphics are acceptable, the overall experience is hampered by unresponsive controls and subpar performance, making the game feel more like an early access title.
- “With decent optimization, graphics and style like displayed in the screenshots, and a responsive action combat system with controls adjusted for PC, it might have been a small gem.”
- “Performance-wise, I had no issues at all with frame rate or any crashes.”
- “This game would be best suited as a how-to-not-make-a-game example, and I don’t care what the excuse is for this poor performance in game development.”
- “This game offers bad optimization, possible crashes, and performance issues (I encountered this on a high-end machine in 2017).”
- “The graphics and looks of this game are subpar, the game is poorly optimized, and it feels like early access even though it isn't.”
story
6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The story is minimal and lacks depth, with no introductory scenes or tutorial quests to provide background context. Players find the narrative underwhelming, mostly limited to simple tasks like killing enemies to progress, resulting in a repetitive and unimpressive experience.
- “Without bigger introductions or quests, you are set to defeat the evil and protect the world from dark forces.”
- “Since there was no intro video, tutorial quest, or any kind of other introduction, the only story I got so far was when speaking to an NPC that told me to kill skeletons in the graveyard, so he opens the portal for me to proceed further.”
- “Well, as you can imagine, being the hero that destroys evil but sadly without any kind of decent background story is not going to impress anyone.”
- “Since there was no intro video, tutorial quest, or any kind of other introduction, the only story I got so far was when speaking to an NPC who told me to kill skeletons in the graveyard, so he opens the portal for me to proceed further.”
- “Well, as you can imagine, being the hero that destroys evil without any kind of decent background story is not going to impress anyone.”
- “It's also much too far to walk back to your mission area or having to sit through the same dialogue from NPCs over and over again.”
gameplay
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The gameplay is rated very poorly, with minimal combat and basic inventory management offering little engagement or depth.
- “Gameplay rating: 1/10”
- “Gameplay and story rating: 2/10”
- “The gameplay consists of some combat and inventory management.”
music
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The music in the game is generally considered outdated and unengaging, leading some players to turn it off early. Additionally, audio issues such as choppy sounds and interruptions during menu interactions negatively impact the experience.
- “The effects sounded like they were straight from 1999 and the music was boring, so it got turned off a few minutes into the game.”
- “Music and sounds are choppy and are interrupted when interacting with the game menu.”
- “You can't pause the game if you're in combat (while the combat music is playing), which is a problem if you want to equip items like leather gloves.”
stability
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The game currently suffers from significant stability issues, with frequent glitches and bugs negatively impacting the gameplay experience.
- “Unfortunately, at the time of writing, this is a glitchy, buggy mess.”
grinding
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
Grinding in the game is minimal and generally manageable, with only a few early sections requiring repetitive play for extra money and experience. After that, progression becomes relatively easy without extensive grinding.
humor
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The humor in the game arises unintentionally from exaggerated scale changes, leading to amusingly oversized barrels and wagons that create a quirky, if unplanned, comedic effect.

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Ethereal Legends is a role playing game.

Ethereal Legends is available on PC, Virtual Reality and Windows.

Ethereal Legends was released on February 21, 2017.

Ethereal Legends was developed by Soverance Studios.

Ethereal Legends has received negative reviews from players. Most players liked Ethereal Legends for its graphics but disliked it for its optimization.

Ethereal Legends is a single player game.

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