5 reviews
Disciples: Liberation
Disciples: Liberation is a mature, dark fantasy strategy RPG with turn-based combat. Liberate the land of Nevendaar and uncover the endless stories hidden within this richly detailed world where every decision has a consequence, and every wrong move could be deadly.
Details
- Released
- October 20, 2021
- Developer
- Frima Studio
- Genres
- Role-playing (RPG) · Strategy · Turn-based strategy (TBS) · Tactical
- Publisher
- Kalypso Media
- Platforms
- PC · PS4 · Xbox One · PS5 · Xbox Series X|S
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Disciples: Liberation Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
The story at the heart of Disciples: Liberation perhaps isn’t the most engaging, and the voice acting is certainly questionable at times, but you’ll soon look past both issues and simply enjoy what the game does right. Nevendaar is a world densely populated with things to do, and Disciples: Liberation wants you to engage with it without bogging you down. What’s more, with most quests posing choices that could affect your standing with the factions present in the world and your companions, there’s plenty of soul-searching to be done. Ultimately, no matter which of the multiple endings you recei...
Disciples: Liberation suffers from some predictible AI and difficulty spikes. Despite this, it still manages to be a very deep and engrossing strategy RPG.
Disciples: Liberation is a unique combination of turn-based strategy and real-time RPG. The game features interesting gameplay hooks that could redefine the genre in long-term perspective.
Sometimes a game ends up being more than the sum of its parts. Sometimes it ends up being what you’d expect. And sometimes, despite doing everything “right”, a game just fails to come together. Sadly, Disciples: Liberation ended up as the latter for me. Despite seeming like my kind of game, nothing it did ended up landing with me. That’s not to say it’s a bad game, or that it does something wrong. It just feels generic, unambitious, and bland. It falls short of being the kind of gam...
As interesting and tactical as that combat system is, I couldn’t get past the fact that Disciples: Liberation was asking 80 (or more) hours of a person’s time with so little payoff. I just found the whole thing too relentlessly miserable to connect with. It’s possible to create a dark setting and still have moments of warmth, beauty and joy. Tolkien understood that. Perhaps those that have been inspired by him should be more diligent students.