Posted on: October 27, 2025

cgr37712

Games: 1281 Reviews: 48

I regret buying this

This game is geared towards the "modern audience" if you know what I mean, it belongs in the catalogs of EA & Ubisoft, the reason I say this is because the game feels incomplete, rushed, buggy, the story & character writing is terrible and geared towards the "modern audience" Tyranny has a clever premise, casting you as an enforcer for a conquered world, but it falls short in execution. The combat is dull, the world feels limited, and the story ends abruptly. On top of that, the writing sometimes feels shaped for a "modern audience" in a way that clashes with the fantasy world. Ambitious, but poorly balanced and often preachy.

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Posted on: October 30, 2025

wrcpatrick

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Games: 246 Reviews: 45

Beyond Mediocre and Boring.

Another Obsidian RPG that tries to be Baldur's Gate 1. The story is OK. You are the bad guys. But the choice to make 2 factions within the bad boyz army is confusing. It makes little sense (you have the Dom Toretto family and the peasant army that is about overwhelming with numbers). So instead of being evil and cruelly taking over, you get to choose between Family army and Peasant army. Repeatedly. Over... and over. Combat is the usual. No improvements in the decades since BG, IWD etc. I would avoid this one. It is truly mediocre.

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Posted on: January 12, 2017

Foytaz

Games: 65 Reviews: 1

Decent and well played one

Well, for me Tyranny is very solid and interesting piece of crpg. I'm very bored of being good guy on the mission to save the miserable world from its own fears and troubles. Many with disagree but in lots of aspects this game is much better than PoE which is also very good. What i do like about Tyranny is simple fact we don't deal with typical and usual stuff like in most similar productions vide many races etc. Human, beasts and spectrals are far enough for decent play without being bored by unimportant stories. Story line is good played. Mechanics are good but could be better, skill and progress sytem is very transparent, fights are also good but as it is common for this kind of games it is getting bored after a while. I'm still having fun playing Tyranny and recommend this game.

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Posted on: February 22, 2017

tehsquirrely

Verified owner

Games: 160 Reviews: 3

An RPG where your companions are cooler

First of all if you liked Pillars of Eternity this game is a great upgrade. They took all the things bad about PoE, stats, no party ai, party size, wonky combat, and improved them. The game is pretty great, the story is original and the setting is super cool. The combat isn't amazing, but it works about as expected for a cRPG. Overall I'd say this is one of the best party based RPGs to come out in a long while. But there's a downside, your main character the fatebinder, is dull as dishwater, mechanically speaking. There are no classes and you gain powers from a list of generic power trees, none of them are terribly inspiring or fit any kind of theme other than being as generic as possible. Meanwhile every ally you get has an amazing and super cool list of skill trees that are wonderfully thematic and mechanically diverse. This could have been easily solved with classes, but the game doesn't have those for... some reason I couldn't begin to fathom. The ability trees have clear class themes, but they're bare bones and uninspired. Thankfully the magic system is straight up AMAZING. The magic system in this game really shines, and really pushes you to play a mage to take advantage of this games most unique and interesting system that a cRPG has ever had. tl;dr play a mage.

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Posted on: May 17, 2018

Arbelac

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Games: 169 Reviews: 1

Buggy, but worth buying on sale.

So, I got this a while ago, and just plowed through it. Took about 30 hours. The good: 1) The writing is decent. I liked the change of perspective, and there are certainly lots of options in most situations (there are some glaring exceptions, see below) 1a) In that vein, there are multiple solutions to most situations (sometimes more than 2, which is a refeshing change.) 2) It's not too long, and not too short. I did most, if not all side quests. The bad: 1) It's buggy. I've got missing UI strings all over the place, even after reinstalling. Sometimes, the game just won't start, and I have to kill the process for it to even launch again. I even had it hang on the intro video. 1a) In that vein, the achievements linked to GoG galaxy don't pop. Even though the time tracker does. 2) There is a situation in Act 2 that doesn't give options, and railroads you hard. 3) Act 3 is short. Really short. Overall, the game is a decent length, but it's front loaded. I did about 10 hours in Act 1, 15 in Act2, and 5 in Act 3, and that was taking my time in Act 3. 4) The pathing is pretty terrible. I've had characters run around the entire fight melee to get to a person right in front of them. Overall, if you can get it on sale, it's worth a playthrough. It's not worth full price though.

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