Posted on: April 20, 2023
gabrielarantest
Verified ownerGames: 129 Reviews: 6
Awesome survival adventure!
This is a new take on PF games. Really awesome and low power. Loved it.
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Posted on: March 10, 2024
EverNightX
Verified ownerGames: 234 Reviews: 33
You're OK skipping this
Your party will progress Lv 1-4 with 2 "real" companions and the rest are mercenaries with no dialogue. The plot is not interesting. You are just trying to get to the defenders heart to warn Irabeth about the demon attack that happens in the main game. There's a cliff hanger ending regarding one party member. Maybe that will be interesting in the followup DLC but I doubt it. I don't feel this DLC adds anything to the game. I'd have preferred if this DLC just added more voice lines to the already very lengthy main campaign.
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Posted on: February 17, 2024
MikeMaximus
Verified ownerGames: 1171 Reviews: 26
A fun little adventure
I found this module to be a breath of fresh air after finishing the annoyingly over tuned combat heavy finale of the main campaign. The game play is more puzzle based role-playing with a bit of combat that you are not punished for avoiding. XP gains are scripted based on exploration and accomplishments, shopping is extremely limited, and trying to brute force combat encounters is not going to work here. It's great to see the devs have the courage to try something a little different. It's not for everyone, but I always enjoy these mini-campaigns where I get to create another character in the same general setting.
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Posted on: August 4, 2024
Rimbald
Verified ownerGames: 189 Reviews: 2
More of this please
The main campaign quickly turns into a mess of visual effects, bloated numbers and pointless after pointless fight. After the soul crushing experience of the last two acts (at least) of the main campaign this is a welcome change of pace: low level, focussed on character builds and not overpowered items, to the point narrative with low stakes. I specially liked how they work around the limitations of the engine to implement scenarios where you might be outmatched but you can still use the environment in your favour, the problem is of course that the limitations still play a role, because all of these clever solutions can be easily found by pressing tab. In anycase, this is the right way to push the series forward, I'd only add more open world into the experience, being able to return to areas and find new challenges will add a lot, the experience in Through the Ashes is just linear. As for number bloating and constant power creep, it might be ingrained into the base rule set, but regardless of where it comes from, it really helps to keep the max level bounded and the experience challenging without the need of constant more and more powerful enemies thrown at you. By the end of the main campaign I have so many tools at my disposal that just pre buffing (which I hate) could become a chore of minutes and then still miss some of the buffs that the game made necessary by amping up enemies with all kinds of ridiculous buffs, and even then I would not use 80% of my arsenal because it wasn't necessary, that's just a sign of lack of focus and more breadth than depth design. So if you like a more focused experience that engages your brain, gives you the bare minimum and forces you to use all of it, this is a campaign for you.
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Posted on: July 3, 2025
BumblePower
Games: 51 Reviews: 12
Irritating to Play
We all love Owlcat because of their insane character building and story reactivity to your character. They are so good at this that we overlook the gotcha encounters, required reloads, and irritating puzzle design. This is a story where your character's build/ancestry does not change the story or the encounters as much as normal due to low reactivity and stealth gameplay. But of course it keeps the irritating puzzles. So this DLC basically maximizes everything Owlcat is bad at, annoying puzzles and gotcha reloads, and miminizes everything they are good at, character builds and story reactivity to character. If you enjoy memorizing the patrol patterns of rat swarms and pulling levers this is the DLC for you. Otherwise avoid.
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