Prince of Persia®

beautiful and calming

Graphics are good but it's a baby game. I'll update this review if I change my mind

Awfully boring.

An oldie but a goodie. Super satisfying gameplay and great soundtrack. You'll definitely like this game if you're into fantasy.

played this for 16 years on ps3. my childhood and favourite game of all time.

love.

Doesn't work on my win 11 .
"Touch button to start" doesn't show up

A work of art.

A game worth revisiting! I played it many years ago on my Xbox 360 and now I’m playing it again casually. It has aged pretty well!

I remember playing it way back in 08. This is still the gem it was back then.
It's mind boggling how much better the movement and "parkour" are in this game compared to the more recent assassin's creed games.
Runs great out of the box on the deck. The music is amazing, was chilling throughout the entire game.

I played this game in 2010 after playing through each SoT, WW and TTT several times and didn't like it because it was too casual and had nothing to do with the prince we knew before. I went through 75% before my saves got corrupted and didn't want to play again back then. Saw it on sale now and decided to give it another go. Well, I have to say this has dumbest tutorial I ever had a displeasure to witness. I walk towards the edge and it tells me something. I would assume probably something about running on walls, except that I have no idea since I've pressed spaced and fell and now it doesn't tell me the message again and I have no idea what it were saying. Space allows me to run on walls it seems but on the second obstacle I was only able to do it properly after 4th try. May be a skill issue but it seems I just lack some important info I have to read that the game skipped because I kept moving or something?

I remember this game being casual so maybe it is not that big of a deal but I also remember fleeing from Dahaka where 0.1s delay wait the difference between a success and death and my reaction is not the same it used to be 20 years ago, so I don't feel it was necessary to introduce the "lack of knowledge" delay because the tutorial was present on the screen for 0.4 seconds and coundn't be brought back by walking around the place where it was first encountered or something.

A great attempt at bringing a new vibe to the Prince of Persia format. I know some people weren't fans but I really liked the art direction. Would love to see a modern remaster of these older games.

Completato raccogliendo tutti i 1000 semi, peccato non abbia achievements. Gioco davvero rilassante e bellissimo nonostante gli anni.

Refreshing

A far step down from the previous generation of PoP games. Controls are clunky, combat is one dimensional and the free running has lost a lot of its skill, mostly requiring you to push one button to win a fight or complete a map.

Enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Plays really well, and seems designed to make your life easy. You can't die unlike in the other POP games, you only get reset to an earlier point, which makes failing so much less annoying. It feels like it was designed to be super accessible, though not easy per se. It may feel repetitive in some places, but that is just because the difficulty curve is so gradual. You have a lot of time to get gud.

Characters are nice too.

(I've beaten the game previously on other systems.)

The game is good, overlooked. Inspired some feelings.

The flashing lights REALLY need to be toned down though.

I never played the Prince of Persia games before this but had heard a lot of good things about them. The parkour does feel a bit dated and janky at first but after a few hours, it felt natural and satisfying to figure out where I was supposed to go and how I was supposed to get there.

I was worried about the combat from some reviews I read prior to playing, but the combat was surprisingly on the easier side for me, particularly with the parry function. I feel like I could reasonably parry at least 7 (or 8) of every 10 times I tried to. The combat was okay for what it was but not the reason to play this game. I played this game for the parkour platforming and the banter between the Prince and Elika.

I had a lot of fun with this game and look forward to checking out the rest of the series.

Backlog Games Beaten 2025
10/50

it cool

This game is a blend of Legends of Zelda, Final Fantasy, Prince of Persia, Borderlands... If you like any of these games then you'll love this one. I highly recommend it, specially if you liked Breath Of The Wild.
It's vey fun and puts your brain to work.


---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☑ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
☐ 3
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☐ 10

Good game, but after watching the Epilogue DLC, the writers cannot fucking write a good ending to save their lives.

Any slightly above average game that isn't heaped with praise or extraordinarily successful will always end up being hailed as a hidden game cult classic genre defining watershed deeply emotional and beautiful. This game is fine for 2 or 3 hours but it is not worth the double digit hours you'll put into it, forgetting how much you pay.

The gameplay is nearly braindead, and if you have played any uncharted or assassins creed game, the charm of fluid parkour wears off extremely quickly. The same goes with the unbelievably shallow dialogue that seems forced to be comedic and constantly undercutting anything interesting or serious. The story itself is generic, the characters have zero arcs and never get to know each other properly which leads to an embarrassingly unearned and elongated ending. The open world format destroys any last possibility of a good story since it is complete random chance what bosses you choose to face first, making the characters seem bi-polar.

The music and visuals are decent, but dont waste your time and instead play other games in the series, I heard the newest one was pretty good.

Edit: Holy shit I forgot, theres a terrible and janky combat system as well that slow everything to a crawl. The fights are so easy to beat, every enemy/boss has the same timing for a parry and enemies can be autokilled, that when I wrote this (right after beating the game) it immediately left my mind. Seriously, don't bother, its not awful, but its not worth your time.

This game sucks!.

Prince of Persia (2008) by Ubisoft Montreal

Release Year: 2008
Genre: Action-Adventure
First playthrough length: 12hrs

Prince of Persia is the 2008 remake of the classic Action-Adventure series, this time with a new setting, open world to explore and a revamped and cinematic combat system


Positives:

Visuals - The game looks amazing even in 2025, and the animations are straight up gorgeous

Platforming - Traversing the world is very fun due to the game's varied arsenal of movement techniques

World Design - the looping and intricate nature of the world makes for enaging platforming


Negatives:

Story - The game's story is bland and forgettable, until the last ten minutes where it becomes simply bad

Combat - While not bad per se, combat is clunky and not as polished as the platforming

Characters - This Prince is an unlikeable cad who I was bored with by halfway through


Final Thoughts:

Struggling under the weight of it's influential predecessors, PoP (2008) is a game feeling the burden of expectations. Gameplay-wise it works, but the characters leave much to be desired, and the turn to an unearned downer ending leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

Final Score: 6/10

This game is very fun! Good parkour, awesome combat, flashy combos, but there's one issue. I got my PC reset, so naturally I wanted to re-download it. I was gonna pause it to do something else, but just then the second part showed up and the "cancel" button w as right over steam's "pause" button and it didn't give me all the files. Re-installed about 5 times now, still won't give me the files! Anybody know what to do? Could use some help.

the game won't get past the loading screen.

What can i say about the 2008 reboot of Prince of Persia?

The flow you have while doing the platforming, which is 90% of the game, is absolutely great. The visuals hold up, or at least, i had zero complaints about it. But that's where it ends.

The only gripes i had with the game were 1: Combat. Clunky AF. Sometimes it would just work and you would be on your way. Other times, it was like a real drag on the flow you had leading up to it. 2: The story was basic as it gets, there is no proper cutscenes once you start on your journey so a lot of the dialogue between the prince and Elika, can be listened to by pressing the talk button. But instead of pressing it and then listening to them have a normal conversation, it will just have them say one line each and then it makes you have to press the talk button again to get more dialogue, and its just one line each. Idk what the thought was around this but fuck, just put in some cutscenes so i can try to like the characters. A VERY weird choice there.

So all in all... 7/10. Pick it up, play it, put it away and maybe one day you will revisit it.

Reliving lovely memories from my childhood.

A brilliant game to play and also I enjoyed it so much

Unfortunately I want to like this game so much: the graphics, the story ( not the ending) and the settings are all good, I love the interaction between the "prince" and Elika, the beautiful landscape that the game offers, but, unfortunately the rest is not that good.
Let's start with gameplay, it's not good, the platforming is basic and it reminds mea lot of assassin's creed which is bad, PoP was not the most intricate at platforming but not that easy like an assassin's creed with one button doing all the stuff you need, is similar to it, which is basicly a dumb down version of the system in the sand of time trilogy and that's not good, the controls are bad too, sometimes I feel unsure about action or QTE because I swear I was hitting the button correctly but the game was not having it, and finally, the combat, to be honest I love the choreography of it, when you do a long combo is really cool and i like the design of the enemies, but seriously? Fighting the same enemy four time before actually defeating it? That terrible and repetitive as heck ah yes and you cannot die you are stuck in there until the enemy is dead or flees away, you can see way it pretty boring after a while.
The story I won't say a lot but the ending I really don't like it...at least give me a choice....
So yeah it's not terrible but unfortunately has a lot of flaws.

Such an amazing ambiance, love it so much. Hope they make more like these.

I think this game is underrated!! Loved this one :)

hell nah

There's probably around an hour or two of good game in here and the rest is padding, it feels like they designed the basic elements they needed for maybe three levels and then made somewhere around 24 mini-levels out of them. They're not even particularly good elements outside of a couple unique set pieces, both combat and platforming devolve into a game of Simon Says. Simon Says it's time to hit the Claw button? Well ok better tap it then.
Most standard fights can be ended instantly with the combo Claw->Jump->Magic->Blade/Claw. Sometimes the bosses can be ended instantly too but rarely are they that generous. In later fights I was almost never getting hurt, but had to spend roughly eight minutes just wailing on the boss' inflated hp bar and waiting for the combat cutscenes to play out so I could hit whatever button Simon Says during it.
It's not all bad, the art style is pretty decent and a few of the levels even look and play well! Plus the two main characters are decently writen.
The ending is a bit sour since not only did it set up other games they never made (the game understandably sold poorly) but they also didn't port the epilogue DLC to the steam version. You won't miss anything by skipping this game.

É um bom jogo, mas não chega nem perto do nível da trilogia anterior.
As batalhas são bem simples e limitadas, e o jogo é bem repetitivo.

No homosexual stuff.
No anti-Christ stuff.
No Marxist propaganda.
No anti-Whiteism.
TERRIBLE BLOCK/PERRY/COMBO GAMEPLAY MECHANICS. so for that alone makes this game go from 10/10 to a 2/10.

I never finished this game on steam, but I love it to death. It is however imo a very aquaired taste, not for everyone or any time. I usually replayed this after I felt burned out from gaming as a sort of pallet cleanser. The music is great, art is gorgeous to look at and it is tbh very easy. I've seen many people say mistakes feel as if they have no consequence, but to me, Elika saving prince every time he screws up instead of a game over screen prevents the flow of the story from ever being broken, which to me is a very important part of the game's aesthetic.

TLDR: The game is great but it's not for everyone

BEAUTIFUL GAME!!

Turns out that this game's art has stood the test of time. Combat being a series of quick-time events that you can manipulate with clever positioning is decent. Running, jumping, and climbing at speed across areas that you know your way around makes you look insanely cool.

Controls did occasionally make me launch myself into space.

Wish there had been a sequel.

I couldn't run away from woman.

Apart from my terrible joke, I'd say this is the most boring pop games so far.
Maybe spoilers ahead idk
writing is bad, prince's dialogues are bad, cringe movements are bad, like why can't I use mouse to run along wall anymore? and you can never die. Literally, when I were about to fall off, either the woman(ugh) or an enemy who initiated my fall, would take my hand and bring me back, oh what a hero, thanks.
-10/10. Graphics are good though

Very fun, I didn't find the parkour very repetitive or very difficult, I thought the parkour was very forgiving. The combat was a little frustrating during some fights and was a little tedious but that isn't so much of a problem because of the small part that the combat plays. The story is also very well made and I like how you choose if you want to listen through diolauge. The conclusivness of the ending is also nice, a very good stand alone game.

so like this game is really sily and cool with all the characters so far, you should play
its only like 2 dolars and really worth it

This was a very fun game! The combat is fun and the parkour is great, but it's not quite as open as you might expect. You don't really freely climb around, but instead it's more like a puzzle trying to find the correct parkour path. So if that sounds like a big turnoff you might not like this. But if you like stuff like the puzzle areas in Assassin's Creed or enjoy mid 2000's action games, then this is right up your alley.

Game is good just avoid collecting all light seeds,unlockable outfits for collecting 1001(all) light seeds hardly worth ur time which takes up to 10-12 hours.

well games

game pretty

Great game, I really like the interactions between the Prince and Elika, both the story and art style are great.
Combat is kinda frustrating but it's not a big part of the game so that's fine. Overall 8/10

probably best reboot ever made by ubisoft but it was too ahead of its time and nobody accepted it as a good game i love playing it despite my 4 complete runs stupid steam still tinks that i play this game 1.1 hour fucking shit paying 1.2 million average to fucking personnel and still cannot determine my gameplay records

Best game of 2008