Ride or Reload? Darksiders Genesis Steam Delivers Double Trouble

From the moment you launch Darksiders Genesis on Steam, the gates of chaos swing wide open, hurling you into a stylish isometric warzone where myth, metal, and mayhem collide. This in-depth exploration of the game’s dual-character combat showcases War’s grounded brutality and Strife’s acrobatic gunplay, each encounter erupting with explosive energy across sprawling battlegrounds. With creature cores to customise your playstyle and elemental puzzles waiting to be unravelled, the Steam version offers a finely tuned dive into the Horsemen’s grim playground. It’s fast. It’s fiery. And it’s unapologetically slick.

Darksiders Genesis Review Pros:

• Decent graphics.
• 10294mb download size.
• Controller support.
• Action RPG Gameplay.
• 3 save slots.
• Graphics-Display mode, resolution, v-sync, AA, texture quality, post-processing, shadow, and FX quality.
• It can change the font size.
• Rebind the keyboard and controller.
• Quests in-game act a bit like achievements, as you get rewards for doing certain quests.
• Action RPG Gameplay.
• 3 save slots.
• Isometric view with a full 3D game world.
• On-screen guide/tutorial pop-ups.
• Big boss encounters.
• Open world style with the chapters splitting parts of the world.
• Chests-random and predetermined loot.
• Hotswap between characters in solo.
• Save and quit option.
• Excellent voice work/story/humour.
• Two playable characters – Strife and War. Basically boils down to one is good at range and one is good at melee.
• One gimmick the game uses is ammo; each character can collect different ammo types, and you have a radial menu to select them quickly. It adds a rock-paper-scissors-like approach to Gunfire.
• Four difficulties: Casual/normal/hard/mayhem.
• Vulgrim-shop to buy items/upgrades/cores.
• Fill your wrath bar and unleash your special ability.
• Trickster keys-buy/find and open bonus rooms.
• Creature cores-buy/find and equip them to customise your character with new abilities, get duplicates to empower them further.
• Co-op support with settings-Friends/invite/private option.
• Local co-op supports it, allows drop-in and out.
• Many Breakable objects can have rewards like health.
• Constant pop-up progress bars for collectables.
• The collection menu houses all found and encountered enemies and items.
• Summon stone-hit this in-game to invite players or initiate split-screen Co-op.
• The game allows you to fight and move around on horseback or on foot. On horseback, it plays like a twin stick shooter, and on foot, it’s more of a melee combo-based system.
• Glorious looking backdrops and locations.
• Cartoon-style cutscenes and character interactions. You can usually skip through interactions and skip cutscenes.
• Excellent voice work.
• Slight puzzle elements are scattered about the world.
• Optional, but you can have the controls showing in the corner at all times, and you do get button prompts.
• Many collectables to get, and each map location shows a running tally of what you do and don’t have.
• Fantastic soundtrack.
• Swap characters when you want with a simple button combo press; each character plays differently and has unique abilities.
• Locations are huge, and you are free to roam as you please; many secrets and routes to find.
• Find maps to have them complete with points of interest put on them.
• Many elemental factors like gusts of wind for verticality.
• You are free to play how you want; you don’t have to follow the story path and can just explore.
• Cool looking execution moves for bonus drops like health and rage.
• The combat is fast and satisfying, especially after you start getting new abilities and learn the synergy between the two characters.
• Many loot chests to find.
• The game does like to do the whole get put in an arena and fight waves of enemies to unlock the gate. It’s fine to play, but it’s a tad repetitive.
• Collect three fragments of the Wrath stone shards to extend your wrath bar.
• There will be platforming-heavy sequences.

Darksiders Genesis Review Cons:

• There is a lot of slowdown in built-up places.
• Annoying, I have to pick up some drops and not others.
• Can’t adjust view distances.
• Bad at introducing you to the game.
• There is no benchmark test.
• No camera control, and it makes built-up areas annoying to travel and fight in.
• Cannot manually save when you want.
• You cannot break boxes, crates, and boxes with a dash, which is criminal.
• Try to remember you have to manually go in and claim completed quest rewards.
• No camera zoom in and out, so at times it can be hard to keep tabs on your position.
• When on horseback, you can’t always pick up collectables and coins.

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Darksiders Genesis:

Official website.

Developer: Gunfire Games

Publisher: THQ Nordic

Store Links –

Steam