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Factions: Origins of Malu

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47%Game Brain Score
graphics, story
stability, gameplay
68% User Score Based on 19 reviews

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Factions: Origins of Malu is a multiplayer casual action adventure game. It was developed by Burning Dog Media and was released on March 23, 2015. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

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68%
Audience ScoreBased on 19 reviews
graphics5 positive mentions
stability2 negative mentions

  • The game features impressive Unreal Engine graphics and a unique, alien art style that sets it apart from other MMOs.
  • Developers are passionate, helpful, and actively engage with the community during Early Access, showing dedication to improving the game.
  • The world design and atmosphere are stunning with detailed environments, offering a visually immersive experience.
  • Currently, the game is very limited in content and gameplay features, making it feel more like a partial MOBA than a full MMO.
  • Combat and controls are unpolished and buggy, with issues such as poor AI, awkward animations, and unclear skill effects.
  • The player base is very sparse, resulting in a low population that affects gameplay and removes the MMO feel.
  • graphics
    13 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's graphics have received mixed feedback, with praise for its unique, visually appealing art style and strong graphical fidelity, especially on Unreal Engine versions. However, some users noted a downgrade when the developers switched to a less advanced graphics engine, resulting in a cheaper look. Overall, the design and aesthetics stand out for their originality and high quality, contributing positively to the gaming experience.

    • “The game is both visually and aesthetically pleasing, meaning not only is the graphical fidelity high, the design is great too.”
    • “The general art style is quite unique; it's fresh to see a new take on graphics. It doesn't look like every other game out there. It feels a lot more alien, and the characters are really interesting, as are the armors and flora of the game.”
    • “Now that I am able to play this beautiful game on my poor 3-year-old non-gamer PC, I'm glad that OOM can be beautiful for me as well, but I'm sure that the graphics are even more beautiful on better settings.”
    • “3 months and they had finally made it playable, but no content... they decided late 2015 to revert to a cheap-looking graphic engine, with tab-target non-action combat, and worst of all, horrible controls.”
    • “Right now I really liked the art style and combat, but it’s much needed to improve, though I hope it will be done even better.”
    • “I played the earlier versions before the move to Unreal 4 and while graphically not as strong as the Unreal 4 version, it was a lot of fun.”
  • story
    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's story is generally praised for being engaging and well-crafted, though some users feel it currently lacks sufficient quests and content to fully develop the narrative experience. Overall, the storyline shows promise but could benefit from further expansion.

    • “The game may be new but it has amazing graphics and a good storyline!”
    • “The best story I have experienced, showing how passionate and helpful the team is.”
    • “This game has a very challenging story.”
    • “I hope that soon there will be more to do, as there aren't any quests at the moment.”
    • “This game has such a hard story.”
  • stability
    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's stability is currently poor, with buggy AI, limited animations, and minimal interactivity. The early access version feels more like an incomplete demo, lacking essential UI descriptions and functional gameplay elements.

    • “AI is still buggy.”
    • “The current early access version released on the 23rd of March cannot really be described even as a playable demo – while the game looks decent and characters move pretty nicely apart from buggy strafing and almost unnoticeable sprint speed, there are no descriptions for the skills or any other part of the UI, little to no impact or animations when skills are used and, as far as I can tell, nothing you can interact with, capture, build, control or do.”
  • gameplay
    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The gameplay is initially reminiscent of a MOBA but is intended to evolve into an MMO experience after further polishing, which users find reasonable.

  • character development
    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Users appreciate the intriguing character designs and are eager to see how character development will evolve in the full release. Early impressions highlight unique, non-conformist characters that add depth and appeal to the game.

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Factions: Origins of Malu is a casual action adventure game.

Factions: Origins of Malu is available on PC, Mac OS, Windows and Linux.

Factions: Origins of Malu was released on March 23, 2015.

Factions: Origins of Malu was developed by Burning Dog Media.

Factions: Origins of Malu has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked this game for its graphics but disliked it for its stability.

Factions: Origins of Malu is a multiplayer game.

Similar games include Project Genom, Otherland, Novus Inceptio, Valnir Rok, Legends of Ellaria and others.