- July 31, 2026
- Project Cloud Games
The Relic: First Guardian
The Relic: First Guardian’s unpolished edges almost undermine the experience, but atmospheric exploration through a haunting world will pull you through.
The Relic: First Guardian’s unpolished edges almost undermine the experience, but atmospheric exploration through a haunting world will pull you through.
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About The Relic: First Guardian
The Relic: First Guardian is a single player hack and slash game with fantasy, dark fantasy and violence themes. It was developed by Project Cloud Games and was released on July 31, 2026. It received neutral reviews from both critics and players.
Transformed into an apocalyptic landscape by the destruction of the great relic, the once-prosperous Arsiltus lies in ruins. But through the silence we began to hear breaths that have not yet faded, faint whispers carried on the wind: promises, waiting, fear, and love. These forgotten voices are Relics; fragments imbued with the emotions and wishes of those who lived before. It rests with you to f…
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Reviews
- Combat feels fast, aggressive, and responsive once learned, with a unique Relic-based build system and variety of weapons and boss encounters.
- Strong atmosphere with a melancholic tone inspired by Korean folklore, creating immersive exploration and storytelling through lore notes.
- Dev team is passionate and actively supporting the game with updates, showing potential for future improvements and growth.
- The game suffers from numerous technical issues including poor optimization, buggy camera, unreadable combat animations, and many quest and boss fight bugs.
- Graphics are low quality and blurry compared to trailers, with very limited or no graphic settings to adjust resolution or performance.
- Combat is often clunky and simplistic with only one attack button, floaty animations, unwieldy movement, and frustrating lock-on and camera behavior.
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37 mentions Positive Neutral NegativeThe game's graphics are widely criticized for being outdated, blurry, and significantly worse than the trailers suggested, with many users citing a lack of any meaningful graphic settings beyond resolution and upscaling. This results in a choppy, fuzzy visual experience with no way to optimize or improve performance or image quality, detracting from overall enjoyment. While some find the art style passable if not impressive, the minimal graphical customization and poor optimization are major disappointments for many players.
“Yes, they aren't 4K mega AAA graphics, but honestly, if you play the game and actually make an effort to enjoy it, it's actually really good, and it's huge; the developers put a lot of work into this game.”
“Other than that, I actually like this game, combat is pretty fluid, and the graphics are pretty good for not having a graphics setting. Of course, it isn't going to be Elden Ring or Dark Souls. If you're going into this game thinking it's that, just don't buy it.”
“I think they fixed a lot of stuff, especially the graphics.”
“There is absolutely no graphics options to tweak for performance, and no ability to disable the upscaling which is seemingly rendering the game in an extremely low resolution to run it optimally, resulting in an extremely fuzzy image which, even then, has quite big lag spikes on occasion.”
“The audacity of charging $50 for a game that looks like it's from the PS2 era, has no graphics setting at all.”
“Worst game I have ever bought: not optimized at all and the graphics are a bait and switch. The actual in-game graphics do not look nearly as good as advertised. I would wait at least a year or for a very good discount before buying, and even then, I am not sure I would recommend it. I am currently waiting on my refund as we speak. This is a $5 game in its current state, in my opinion.”
Critic Reviews
The Relic: First Guardian Review – A World Worth Saving
The Relic: First Guardian’s unpolished edges almost undermine the experience, but atmospheric exploration through a haunting world will pull you through.
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The true dark fantasy of The Relic: First Guardian is all of the potential it squanders; an energetic action game marred by its own shambolic state and broken in too many inexcusable ways.
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The Relic: First Guardian is a hack and slash game with fantasy, dark fantasy and violence themes. Common tags for The Relic: First Guardian include 3D, demons, exploration, third person, mythology and others.
The Relic: First Guardian is available on PC and Windows.
The Relic: First Guardian was released on July 31, 2026.
The Relic: First Guardian was developed by Project Cloud Games.
The Relic: First Guardian has received neutral reviews from both players and critics. Most players liked The Relic: First Guardian for its atmosphere but disliked it for its graphics.
The Relic: First Guardian is a single player game.
Similar games include Enotria: The Last Song, Bleak Faith: Forsaken, Beast of Reincarnation, Edge of Eternity, The Last Case of Benedict Fox and others.