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The Awakener: Battle Tendency

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84%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music
Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, story
84% User Score Based on 69 reviews

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The Awakener: Battle Tendency is a single player and multiplayer hack and slash game with fantasy, anime, medieval and historical themes. It was developed by TANER GAMES and was released on May 1, 2026. It received positive reviews from players.

The Awakener: Battle Tendency is an action RPG that blends hack-and-slash combat with a deep loot grind and affix-driven builds. From a third person perspective, you command Awakeners to confront fate’s echoes. Across ever-shifting illusory battlefields, fight alongside warriors from different eras, defy the laws of fate, grow through life and death trials, and seek a way to defeat the encroaching…

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84%Audience ScoreBased on 69 reviews
gameplay9 positive mentions
story3 negative mentions
  • Engaging musou-style combat with satisfying combos and flashy effects reminiscent of Dynasty Warriors.
  • Diverse roster of characters offering different playstyles and meaningful build customization with equipment and affixes.
  • Active developer support with frequent patches improving performance, fixing bugs, and adding content, enhancing long-term enjoyment.
  • Repetitive and linear level design with frequent reuse of stages and lack of variety in objectives.
  • Numerous technical issues including clipping bugs, camera problems, occasional crashes, and uneven optimization, especially on higher settings.
  • Inventory and loot management can be tedious due to excessive drops and lack of meaningful differences between items leading to monotonous grinding.

  • gameplay

    25 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    36% positive mentions, 52% neutral mentions, 12% negative mentions

    The gameplay is a solid, enjoyable mix of musou-style hack-and-slash and roguelite elements, praised for satisfying combat mechanics and a straightforward, challenging progression. While some find it repetitive and reliant on button mashing, others appreciate the depth in character builds and smooth animation cancels that add nuance. Overall, it offers a fun, casual experience reminiscent of Dynasty Warriors but with more focused gameplay and less filler.

    • “Awesome game with excellent gameplay like Dynasty Warriors and Diablo, with graphics that put to shame big AAA titles.”
    • “Pros: very fun mix of hack and slash and roguelite gameplay.”
    • “The combo of satisfying combat mechanics and the thrill of chasing perfect gear blew my workday stress away.”
    • “The gameplay and price carry a lot of bad design choices, but it got a better bang for buck rating than Dynasty Warriors Origins, a game priced at 125% of what the market would allow a full-priced game to be.”
    • “It's pure gameplay: move through linear areas, cut through hordes of mooks and some stronger foes, then take down the boss.”
    • “The gameplay is based on spamming buttons, where an auto-clicker would be an improvement.”

  • optimization

    14 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    21% positive mentions, 58% neutral mentions, 21% negative mentions

    The game's optimization has improved significantly since launch, with ongoing updates enhancing performance and smoothing gameplay, especially for users with good PC specs. However, some players still report high resource usage, occasional crashes, and issues like anti-aliasing glitches, indicating that further optimization is needed. Overall, it runs well for many but can still be demanding or unstable on lower-end systems.

    • “At launch, the optimization felt average, but the developers are very actively updating and optimizing it, and now it basically runs very smoothly, which is excellent.”
    • “The optimization is much better than the early versions.”
    • “Everything from the new player experience, polish, optimization and endgame experience have been cleaned up a ton in a short period of time.”
    • “The game needs better optimization, anti-aliasing is still an issue with this title, localization is still a bit hard to read and understand, and the lock-on system really should be removed from grunts.”
    • “(Doesn't crash completely but definitely makes you nervous.) Makes my PC turn into a room heater, so likely could still use more optimization.”
    • “But I will still anxiously wait for performance patches... and maybe a patch that won't crash the game when loading, that'd be cool as well.”

  • story

    11 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 73% neutral mentions, 27% negative mentions

    The game's story is minimal to nonexistent, with few dialogues and no significant narrative focus. Players note the lack of variety or depth in story elements, emphasizing fast-paced combat and repetitive mission objectives instead. Story is not considered a primary reason to play this game.

    • “The story is nonexistent but I didn't play it for the story anyway.”
    • “There is basically no story though.”
    • “This tech demo doesn't have a real story, just a couple dialogues here and there after certain progress-based checkpoints.”

  • grinding

    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Grinding in the game is generally well-received, with a fast-paced, addictive rhythm that balances repetition and exploration without feeling tedious. Combat is simple yet engaging, making extended grinding sessions enjoyable. However, some players note that the content can feel barebones, leading to a sense of forced farming to extend playtime.

    • “Combat is simple but enough for a fun time grinding.”
    • “Insanely addictive, not braindead easy and just the right amount of repetition, exploration and dopamine grinding to keep you hooked.”
    • “When content is barebones, tedious asf, uncalled for, etc, I call it 'farming playtime'.”

  • graphics

    7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    43% positive mentions, 14% neutral mentions, 43% negative mentions

    The graphics receive mixed feedback, with praise for their expressive visuals and appealing effects when settings are optimized, though some criticize default settings for causing blurriness and note rough modeling and unrealistic elements like the blood effects. Comparisons to Dark Souls highlight ambitious design goals, but issues like generic models and translation problems suggest the visuals still have room for improvement. Overall, the graphics are considered good but not without flaws.

    • “Awesome game with excellent gameplay like Dynasty Warriors/Diablo and graphics that put to shame big AAA titles.”
    • “Although the modeling is a bit rough, the current content is still quite good, and the visuals are very expressive.”
    • “The gameplay is really fun, and looks great with the graphics all the way up.”
    • “This game has a lot to improve on: the lack of sound effects, the default graphical settings being terrible (seriously, turn off the AA for a less blurry picture), no voice acting, mistranslations or awkward translations, enemies don't feel like a threat, using default Unreal Workshop models for everything.”
    • “And they try to make it look like Dark Souls graphics-wise.”
    • “My primary complaint of the game has been fixed, the visuals are no longer blurry.”

  • music

    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    60% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 40% negative mentions

    The music in the game receives mixed feedback: some users find it epic and energizing, effectively enhancing the action, while others criticize it for being repetitive and annoying due to short, looping tracks.

    • “The soundtrack in the game is epic.”
    • “Music is really good, having the ability to hype you up for the action.”
    • “The music rocks!”
    • “Even the music just seems to be the same 10 seconds looped over and over to the point of madness.”
    • “Music is truly annoying.”

  • humor

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The humor in the game is lighthearted and comes from the exaggerated, goofy enemy reactions during combat, providing entertaining visuals rather than complex AI behavior. Players find it amusing to watch enemies get humorously juggled and defeated.

    • “At the very least, it's a Warriors game, so it's not like we need the normal enemies to have super involved AI in the first place; they exist to build combos and look funny getting juggled.”
    • “Still hilarious to see though.”

  • replayability

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 50% neutral mentions, 50% negative mentions

    Replayability is limited due to a lack of variety in playable characters and poor overall presentation, which detracts from the game's lasting appeal.

    • “I hope more playable characters will be added in the future.”

  • character development

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 100% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Character development is seen as uneven, with the elf warrior standing out as the most fleshed-out and unique character in both design and gameplay, while other characters feel less developed and distinctive.

  • stability

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game suffers from severe stability issues, with numerous bugs making it practically unplayable.

    • “Extremely buggy and literally unplayable due to bugs.”
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Play Times

43h Median play time
43h Average play time
43-43h Spent by most gamers
*Based on 4 analyzed playthroughs
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The Awakener: Battle Tendency is a hack and slash game with fantasy, anime, medieval and historical themes. Common tags for The Awakener: Battle Tendency include 3D, magic, female protagonist, exploration, spectacle fighter and others.

The Awakener: Battle Tendency is available on PC and Windows.

On average players spend around 43 hours playing The Awakener: Battle Tendency.

The Awakener: Battle Tendency was released on May 1, 2026.

The Awakener: Battle Tendency was developed by TANER GAMES.

The Awakener: Battle Tendency has received positive reviews from players. Most players liked The Awakener: Battle Tendency for its gameplay but disliked it for its optimization.

The Awakener: Battle Tendency is a single player game with multiplayer and local co-op support.

Similar games include GODBREAKERS, Tower of Babel: Survivors of Chaos, Never Return, Hyper Light Breaker, No Rest for the Wicked and others.