- June 29, 2026
- The Joust
- 601h median play time
The Joust
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About The Joust
The Joust is a single player and multiplayer simulation game with fantasy, medieval and historical themes. It was developed by The Joust and was released on June 29, 2026. It received very positive reviews from players.
Prepare... for... The Joust! (all screenshots below are captured with the real in-game camera and exported through our high-definition rendering pipeline) Hark ye! Hark ye! Gather ye 'round for the tournament is about to begin!The Joust is a highspeed, physics-rich simulation game with a specialty for freeform control. Swing swords, sweep axes, and sling fireballs as you follow your path to b…
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- Highly enjoyable and addictive combat with a unique physics-based system combining fighting and rogue-like elements.
- Extensive customization options including numerous game modes, classes, weapons, and maps, with creative freedom to create your own content.
- Active and responsive developer engagement, frequent updates, and a close-knit community that values feedback.
- The game suffers from bugs and technical issues such as broken multiplayer, weapon tracking problems, and unstable camera controls.
- Steep learning curve and a sometimes overwhelming tutorial that can make onboarding frustrating for new players.
- Janky gameplay and occasional performance problems, along with some confusing or unpolished mechanics like AI difficulty balance and unclear game objectives.
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15 mentions Positive Neutral NegativeThe gameplay offers extensive content and diverse modes but suffers from poor implementation, including unreliable weapon tracking and broken multiplayer functionality. The tutorial is overly complex and overwhelming, leaving key mechanics like parrying unclear, while the overall experience is hindered by overloaded options and limited camera views. Despite these issues, the mechanics do complement the artistic style.
“Hundreds of hours of gameplay is what we can all expect to enjoy.”
“+ Extensive configuration of gameplay modes, characters, enemies.”
“+ A diverse set of gameplay modes.”
“Mechanics are poorly implemented; the tracking for your weapon is terrible, the tutorial breaks every so often (requiring a restart of the game or match depending on severity), and multiplayer is completely broken. Your sword is stuck where it spawns, opponents often die on contact with their own weapons (or yours), you can't move, and there is no fix.”
“The elaborate tutorial has a cool skip feature allowing backward and forward progression, but ultimately it covers too much at once with too little time on each gameplay mechanic element; I still didn't understand parrying and riposte, and then the tutorial didn't progress anymore, so I couldn't learn about the rest of the gameplay mechanics.”
“The game feels overloaded with options, terminology, gameplay, and mechanics elements, creating an overwhelming experience.”
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The Joust is a simulation game with fantasy, medieval and historical themes. Common tags for The Joust include first-person, magic, action roguelike, abstract, combat and others.
The Joust is available on PC and Windows.
On average players spend around 402 hours playing The Joust.
The Joust was released on June 29, 2026.
The Joust was developed by The Joust.
The Joust has received very positive reviews from players. Most players liked The Joust for its story but disliked it for its gameplay.
The Joust is a single player game with multiplayer support.
Similar games include Gladio Mori, Half Sword, Gladio and Glory, Trailmakers, Hellish Quart and others.