Lords of the Fallen Review (Steam)

For this Lords of the Fallen Review, A vast world awaits in the all-new, dark fantasy action-RPG, Lords of the Fallen. As one of the fabled Dark Crusaders, embark on an epic quest to overthrow Adyr, the demon God. After an age of the cruelest tyranny, the demon God, Adyr, was finally defeated. But Gods… do not fall forever. Now, eons later, Adyr’s resurrection draws nigh. As one of the fabled Dark Crusaders, journey through both the realms of the living and the dead in this expansive RPG experience, featuring colossal boss battles, fast challenging combat, thrilling character encounters, and deep, immersive storytelling. Will your legend be one of light… or one of darkness?

Lords of the Fallen Review Pros:

• Fantastic graphics.
• Download size.
• Steam achievements.
• Full controller support.
• Steam trading cards.
• Graphics settings – window mode, resolution, resolution scale, v-sync, FPS limit, screen calibration, HDR, Nvidia DLSS (super-resolution/sharpness), AMD FSR (quality/sharpness), auto-detect settings, graphics preset, view distance, shadows, anti-aliasing, texture quality, Visual effects, post-processing, reflections, global illumination, foliage, motion blur, film grain, and chromatic aberration.
• Cross play – on/off.
• Online and offline mode support including a session password setup.
• Can rebind controls for the mouse and keyboard.
• Mouse settings – Invert axis and sensitivity sliders.
• Subtitles and subtitles size.
• FMV cutscenes.
• Action RPG gameplay.
• Nine character classes – hallowed Knight, Udirangr Warwolf, Partisan, Mournstead Infantry, Blackfeather Ranger, Exiled Stalker, Orian Preacher, Pyric Cultist, and Condemned. Classes have unique starting weapons, armor, and starting weapons.
• Male and female choice.
• Character creator has sliders, hairstyle, age, size, muscular, and name.
• Opening tutorial area with ongoing pop ups.
• Combination of attacks can be done depending on weapons, weapon type and button presses.
• Umbral is where you use your Umbral lamp to see the world in a different way and in real time called the Umbral Realm.
• You can go into the Umbral realm with your lamp at any time but can only leave in certain places.
• Soulflay obstacles appear and you need your Umbral lamp to target and use it.
• You use your Umbral lamp to Soulflay enemies to expose them and open them up to high damage.
• The Umbral lamp uses charges and you have to recover them from blisters in the world or by siphoning it from enemies.
• Wither – when entering Umbral your health gets wither, and you can only recover health by attacking enemies, if you get hit then all withered health is lost straight away.
• Dread is what builds when you are in the Umbral and as it builds you get stronger enemies after you.
• Vestiges are respawning points and can be used as fast travel points, you can also level up and deal with inventory.
• Soulflay is where you can grab enemies with your lamp, then you can choose a direction to throw them.
• Follows the Souls formula and gameplay loop.
• You can have one or two hands on the weapons.
• Umbral parasites can merge with other creatures to protect or enhance them, but you can find them with your Umbral lamp and kill them.
• Such a dark moody atmosphere with the lighting really elevating the game world.
• You drop any collected Vigor and drop them at death, you have the next life to try and retrieve them.
• Collectibles and pickups show clearly on the screen.
• Stamina based system for attacks, blocking, running, and rolling/dodging. It regents quite quickly when not holding the block button down.
• Stigmas – these are traumatic events that happen in the Axiom world but going into the Umbral Realm makes them a stigma that you can locate and reveal the fragment of the event/stigma.
• When you die in Axiom you instantly respawning into the Umbral Realm in the exact same spot.
• Loot can be up high in trees and shot down.
• Vestige seedlings – plant these on Umbral flowerbeds and serve as a revival point in Umbral. (you do get a lamp light up to help find them)
• You can stagger and backstab enemies for huge damage.
• You get rewarded for exploring.
• Find and unlock shortcuts.
• You can find little orange lanterns where breaking them sets a butterfly-laden path to an enemy that killed another player, you get more rewards for doing it.
• When you save it says when you last saved.

Lords of the Fallen Review Cons:

• The loading times are not always great.
• Performance is a mixed bag with a lot of tweaking needed even in high end machines.
• Cannot rebind controls.
• The Umbral lamp takes a while to get used to in terms of how it works and what it does.
• A lot to take in.
• Being a Souls player can make it harder as not everything works how you think it would.
• Slowdowns and pop-ups happening at the worst times.
• Combat can get very fiddly especially when you Factor in the need to use your umbral lamp.
• Ranged enemies do so many cheap shots and have amazing never-miss accuracy.

Related Post: Detective Pikachu Returns Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)

Lords of the Fallen:

Official website.

Developer: HexWorks

Publisher: CI Games

Store Links –

Steam