The Technomancer

The team writes intelligent, worthy scenarios and narratives, and then they do the best they can to build gameplay to support that concept. Spiders never quite gets there with executing to vision, but I don’t mean this as a backhanded complement; I genuinely appreciate what this team does, because it’s unique and interesting and I wish more developers had the gumption to try something like The Technomancer.

Capsule ComputersJamie Laike Tsui

7/10

The Technomancer is a bit of a diamond in the rough; the series isn’t ready for prime time yet, but it is still an enjoyable albeit unpolished experience.

GameSpewRichard Seagrave

7/10

Running at somewhere between 20 to 40 hours depending on how involved you get with its wealth of side content, The Technomancer is strangely captivating should you make it past its flaky first few hours. Like Spiders’ previous forays into the genre; Bound by Flame, Of Orcs and Men and Mars: War Logs, it’s a game riddled with troubling issues, but those who persist and can see past them will discover that none are crippling enough to ruin the heart of what is otherwise a truly enjoyable adventure. It may not quite have the polish you’d expect of a full price title, yet I doubt it was made with ...

DualShockersSteven Santana

6.5/10

I really wanted to like The Technomancer during my twenty or so hours with it, but constantly I was pushed into battles that were just not fun. I liked my companions, their stories, and the overall progression of the conspiracies and faction wars occurring on Mars. It would have been so much better if every time I needed to reach a location in Ophir I wasn't forced to fight four soldiers at once. Frequently I would take damage in the middle of a swing from an off-screen enemy, or my healing would be interrupted by a bullet, or I would dodge into an attack when I swear I was pushing my stick aw...

PC GamerIan Birnbaum

60/100

It's a big effort from a small team, but it’s not the next great RPG.

GameSpotJason D'Aprile

6/10

Get your butt to Mars. Maybe.

RPGamerAlex Fuller

French developer Spiders returns to Mars with its latest title, The Technomancer. Players will need to navigate internal discord as they attempt to put the red planet back in contact with Earth.

Worth PlayingBrian Dumlao

6/10

The Technomancer is a post-apocalyptic RPG set in a cyberpunk world on Mars during the War of Water, where an aspiring Technomancer faces a myriad of questions as his future grows threatened by the secrets of his past.

TechRaptorRobert Grosso

5.5/10

Decisively average, The Technomancer can be an amusing role-playing experience thanks to its combat system, provided you are ready for constant repetition baked in a sub-par shell.

Video ChumsA.J. Maciejewski

4.8/10

Very few game genres are as compelling as narrative-driven action RPGs. The Technomancer is a follow-up to 2013's critically panned Mars: War Logs, but does it provide an experience worthy of travelling back to the red planet?

Sirus GamingHaidee Pinote

Unscored

To bag this all up, I’m giving this game a solid 7/10. I’m a visual gamer by nature and I always get excited whenever I play a game that boasts larger-than-life based graphics. Graphics that’re so good you could almost taste it. But then again, this game’s cons tend to drag the game down to a certain level that is hard to be pulled up by just mere visuals. That being said, this game still has a looooong way to go in terms of RPG superbness!

Checkpoint GamingJakob Quilligan

Unscored

I was initially really excited to start playing the Technomancer. With so many games now featuring Mars as their setting, it presented a unique angle compared to other titles. Colonisation of Mars has been abandoned in this world, and the remaining population now fights for control of the most precious resource left, water. I thought this to be a real standout plot point given that water, unlike riches, actually has a vital biological function, it keeps us alive. Vying over this, and other re...