Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical

DualShockersMatthew Schomer

9.5/10

I don't dare to describe the events that set off these emotional detonations in my heart and mind—not before the game's even released, anyway. David Gaider has already earned my top spot among video game writers for his work on the first three Dragon Age games, and I daresay he's outdone himself. All I can do is tell you that Stray Gods is a revolutionary visual novel without peer, and even if you're not really into that genre, musical theater, or the Greek pantheon, I couldn't recommend it more.

Checkpoint GamingDavid McNamara

9/10

“The problem with immortality is that you think you have all the time in the world.”

Impulse GamerChris O'Connor

I'm not going to lie... I thought perhaps Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical was a bit like Sing Star in that you would/could/had to actually sing to play...

PC GamerMollie Taylor

81/100

Visual novels and stage musicals come together in almost harmony.

MMORPGJason Fanelli

8/10

From the minute I read the words "roleplaying musical," I wondered how well musical theater and video games would merge on the latter's home turf. After all, we've seen video games make the jump to the real-world stage a few times in history – Japan's Ace Attorney musicals and The Last Of Us: One Night Live spring to mind. However, a video game taking the form of a Broadway musical is a much rarer affair, and Stray Gods is a perfect example of what makes that adaptation so difficult. A grea...

SiliconeraArielle Haddad

7/10

Stray Gods is an epic tale of gods, magic, and a millennium-long journey to rediscover one’s purpose. Dive into an urban fantasy world of music and adventure, where reality and the supernatural collide in strange and nefarious ways. You play as Grace, recently bequeathed with the power of song by the Last Muse who chose to pass you her gift before dying in your arms. Armed with the power of spectacular musical numbers, you have one week to prove your innocence in the Muse's death before a group of mythological beings known as the Chorus - take your life as punishment. Switch version reviewed.

Playstation LifestyleTyler Treese

7/10

Summerfall Studios’ Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical is one of the most unique games of the year. Creating a musical is already a colossal undertaking. But turning one into interactive art altered by player choice? Even more daunting. While it doesn’t come together as smoothly as one may hope, there’s enough promise and payoff to make this a successful experiment.

Press StartBrodie Gibbons

6.5/10

Stray Gods might be a well-written, narrative-driven murder mystery that drags us to Olympus and back again, but it fails to deliver anything remotely close to an earworm after hours of forgettable melodies. Though Bailey and Baker do enough to earn their flowers, the production itself does little to land Stray Gods a place among the musical pantheon.

StevivorSteve Wright

6/10

We’re currently in a golden age of unconventional musicals. Fresh off the back of Star Trek‘s first musical episode in franchise history — and coming after that because it moved itself out of the way of Baldur’s Gate 3 — is Stray Gods A Roleplaying Musical from Melbourne’s own Summerfall Studios.

WellPlayedJames Wood

6/10

Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical has a sharp eye for aesthetics and a kind heart but its ambitious concept buckles under uneven implementation and a lacklustre sound.

EurogamerEd Nightingale

A fascinating but flawed experimental musical game that fails to live up to some heavenly potential.

KotakuKenneth Shepard

Unscored

Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical aspires to ambition it can’t quite reach