Bound By Flame

Combat sucks- It is designed for 1v1 so naturally when 3 normal enemies and 2 archers attack you at same time, it doesn't really work.
Shitty Companions- can't keep themselves alive for 5sec.
Sequel Bait- The story says 7 Ice Lords and you only get to fight with 1 at the end.
Bad Keyboard-Mouse controls.

Personally I think that it's a game that is rough around the edges but it has interesting choices, characters and story. It has multiple endings depending on your choices. Overall it's a game that I will add to my list of favorites.

it might be a small game but the story was awesome the concept was awesome and for just 50 indian ruppees the games an absolute steal in my opinion

Interesting ideas, poor execution.
The game feels both unfinished (litteraly, the story ends with multiple antagonists remaining) and unpolished.
You are possessed by a fire demon, the solution to humanity's unpending doom at the end of Frost Evil Wizards. You are a fighter and a spellcaster. The game and plot lean on the fact that relying on the demon corrupts you. Sadly, this doesn't apply to gameplay, only story choices. It doesn't matter if you set the world ablaze in gameplay as long as you don't use magic in dialogues. The combat system is basic too.

while the art direction in this game is really good and has beautiful music
the clunky gameplay and writing that could be better brings it down
but if u want a goofy time with some dialogue and some great music, by all means play the game

I initially played this game on xbox but never actually completed it and set out to do so on pc instead. i genuinely enjoyed playing the game and played it through twice (whilst following a guide) to gain all the achievements. after seeing every ending it its obvious that only the human ending was actually fleshed out as the others quite literally just end abruptly and go straight to the credits whereas the human one has an epilogue of sorts, telling how your companions fared in the ensuing years. either the devs got lazy or they only considered the retained humanity ending to be the 'true' one. i was disappointed by this. the 'romance' if you can call it that feels wholly unnecessary and imo should have been left out. i enjoyed the story and learning bits of the lore though i do wish we could have met and fought more than just 1 'Lord'.
I also liked the combat though make sure to put points in just 1 fighter tree and your magic otherwise you will find the game very difficult towards the end unless your playing on the easiest mode. overall a 6.5/10
p.s i had no issues getting the game to run from start to finish.

“But you see, that’s what I like so much about mortals: their stories last just about the right amount of time… give or take a few decades… and then they’re done… and then they come around again.”

As Spiders' #1 (self-proclaimed) fangirl, I have taken it upon myself to 100% every one of their games in 2025, in anticipation of the impending release of GreedFall 2. After quite a bit of an uphill battle, I've managed to finally complete Bound by Flame, the black sheep of the Spiders catalogue. I say this unreservedly, and with good reason. It's an unoptimized, overambitious, buggy experiment, with occasionally campy and unconvincing voice acting, but one with lots of heart and passion. As such, I can't help but recommend it. You take on the role of Vulcan, the explosives expert of the Freeborn Blades, a mercenary company attempting to prolong the inevitable: the end of the world. Vertiel is consumed by a preternatural endless winter, spearheaded by Ice Lords and their necromantic pawns. An (un)fortunate accident at a ritual to hold back this horror imbues Vulcan with the power to control fire, with wound to their humanity. Possessed by a demon, you now hold the fate of the world in your hands, a fate that you can affect by clinging to your fragile humanity, or permitting the demon to take control.

Some quick words

I have next to no excuse for my godawfully long playtime in this game, compared to many others. It's not that it's terribly difficult, per se, but horribly optimized. I'm not one to decry Spiders' catalogue as janky -- I personally love the combat in GreedFall and see every earlier installment as a less-refined version of it -- but there is a lot to be desired with how Bound by Flame plays. Yet, when you get into the groove of the battle, and find your rhythm between throwing fireballs and slashing daggers, the combat is satisfying. I do recommend to only use skills from the Ranger and Pyromancer trees, however, as Warrior, with its usually beautiful Zweihanders, axes and hammers, is an incredibly slow and ineffective experience. My first playthrough was a Ranger with some Pyromancer skills, which I found to be a fun and engaging experience. The second and third playthroughs felt like a never-ending chore, but I would be amiss to judge the game on those grounds. The first playthrough, although occasionally tedious, was enjoyable enough.

Full transparency, my pros deal almost exclusively with aesthetics and worldbuilding, and not necessarily with gameplay.

PROS
+ The characters. Although this isn't nearly as heavy of an RPG as their later installments, the characters all felt as if they had their own motives, agendas, and places in the world. It's impossible to keep everyone happy. (I really particularly enjoy Mathras. He's a lot of fun.)
+ Beautiful and in-depth crafting system. Standard armour and weapons can be customized minutely: you can add parts to your armour that buff your mana or health points; offer you poison, magic, or ice resistance; or grant a quicker regeneration speed to HP. Upgrades to weapons grant boons in battle, as one would imagine.
+ Consumable items, such as crossbow quarrels, traps, and potions, are incredibly effective. Traps and bolts do a great amount of damage, and their value/usefulness scales in accordance to their rarity.
+ Olivier Deriviere composed the soundtrack. His musical direction, with its organic sounding strings, distant vocals and exciting percussion, truly added to the experience. My favourite piece is the theme that plays in Valvenor, the secluded town in the swamplands.
+ The natural landscapes we see are gorgeous and immersive, particularly the swamp.
+ Creature design. The monsters and wacky creatures you encounter -- outside of the standard zombies -- are all unique, and have that very distinctive Spiders feel to them. It's kind of hard to articulate what I mean when I say that, but playing through any of their games should net you the same results, if you're observant.
+ There are several endings -- while I don't think this game is particularly replayable, to see this attention to detail is quite nice, and I'm glad that this has also become a staple of Spiders' games.
+ The side quests all tie into the main quest, which is likewise another Spiders signature move.

CONS
- My game kept crashing, repeatedly. The issue eventually resolved itself, and didn't happen nearly as frequently if I didn't bring up the Steam or Discord overlays. It's probably an internal issue on my end, but goodness me, was it frustrating.
- The combat is incredibly unbalanced. Like I mentioned above, the heavy weapons do next to no damage and oftentimes swing inexcusably slow. It's frustrating to use them, as there's no payoff. You either die mid-animation, or spend too long trying to chip away at the health of an inconsequential Deadwalker.
- The pacing of the game is rather awkward. Act 1 is quite long, but it doesn't overstay its welcome. Acts 2 and 3 are both too long and too short at the same time. You can tell that there's a story that they wanted to tell, but its length and scope exceeded their budget and resources.
- The combat encounters, especially in Act 3, grow rather repetitive. While this can be good for predicting the next move, it grows incredibly grindy and not very exciting very quickly.
- You can only take one companion with you at a time. I find this disappointing as the companions all had great personalities with a lot of potential to work off of each other, yet
- The ultimate boss has absolutely no excuse being so tanky. Say skill issue if you wish, but it is an absolute chore -- and not very fun whatsoever -- to chip away at without an incredible amount of cheesing or saintly levels of patience.

Last words

I'm not sure if this is a fair criticism, but the game definitely feels its age and budgetary restrictions. You can tell that Spiders was still trying to get their foot in the door with crafting sweeping and consequential RPGs, and as such, the game falls short in quite a few places. I'm sure my opinion on this bit would be different had I played it 11 years ago, or if I didn't start with GreedFall, but it is what it is. It's not a great game by any means, but it is a good game. I enjoyed my first playthrough, and it's a treat to be able to see the seeds of inspiration for Spiders' later endeavours. This review is more ambivalent than I wished -- after all, I am recommending it! -- but it took this form as I wrote it. You will enjoy it if you know what you're getting into: an unpolished, poorly aged, and experimental RPG with lots of bugs, questionably campy charm, and a priapic 6,000 year old zombie with perfect charisma.

The Final Verdict

Overall Rating ★★★⯪☆
Story ★★★★☆
Gameplay ★★★☆☆
Graphics ★★★★☆
Sound Design ★★★★★
Replay Value ★☆☆☆☆
Difficulty ★★★★☆
Bug free? ★★☆☆☆
PC Requirements ★★☆☆☆
Game Length ★★★☆☆

I wouldn't say "wait for sale," as the game is running at a standard price of $6.99 USD. You'll definitely get your money's worth of playtime. However, if you're still hesitant, Spiders' games go on sale quite often, so it's worth keeping your eye on it.

Oh boiiii, the Devs CLEARLY didn't finished the game on the hardest difficulty and said: "Yes, this final boss seems fair and balanced. Release it!"

Aside from that, I decided to buy and try this old beautuy from my childhood now that I am older and I just wanted to ask. Spider, why are you doing this?

You gave us a goth-ice baddie and proceeded to lock her in the bad route of the game? Shame on you, the game is fine overall as it follows Spider formula of a dark fantasy RPG with the same gameplay if you played any of the devs previous games liek Mars: War Logs, Techomancer or GreedFall, if you liked them you will like this one.

As one of the 2.6% of people that finished it on the hardess difficulty and goodest ending out there I had to say, it's a good game. I will still be salty about Edwen though.

A lot of potential that didn't quite pan out. I remember having fun with it when I played it, and gave it some time before coming back to review: The characters are overall forgettable and uninteresting, choices that determine your "morality" path didn't feel like they made the path taken feel worth it, or even like it was necessarily clear to me what I was choosing at the time.

Overall, I wouldn't really recommend it. The gameplay isn't something I came back to after playing it once upon a time, the story isn't remembered fondly, and the game is on my list to be remembered on occasion as "oh yeah, I did play that, huh?"

Good story script .

It's like the developers learned all the wrong lessons from Dark Souls's popularity. Brutal and unfun for the sake of being brutal. The combat is NOT good. Takes the already bad combat system of Mars: War Logs and somehow makes it worse? Just an absolute skidmark of a game.

They should rename this game The Shit-cher.

Nah, I'm just kidding. It's not that bad, it's just also not that good either. It seems like a competent 360-era hack and slash, but then you start to notice the smell: the checkpoints start getting farther apart, the quests start becoming fetch quests, and the voice acting does NOT get any better. The story is trying so hard to have the characters from The Witcher in the world of Dragon Age, but it's just so poorly written. The protagonist is one of those wise-cracking Marvel movie characters, only it appears to be written by an actual 14 year old. Game balance doesn't exist. One minute, you're curb-stomping every enemy in sight, the next minute the 3 same enemies will attack all at once and wombo-combo you to death. You might have fun with this, but you have to have a serious resistance to jank.

Good game

Just like any game made by spiders, it's a low budget game with janky mechanics and questionable choices.

It's very enjoyable, but it could've been way better if only it received a bit of polish. The combat is meant to be challenging, so depending on your preferences, you might find this game a bit repetitive and unfair. The overall gameplay is like the story of this game: good enough, despite feeling rushed. For the price, it's not really a concern.

Wow, this game is GREAT... this is one of those underrated action rpg goodness. The bosses,music,graphics is so good... PLUS the choices you made will shape the outcome of the story. All in all, I rate this 9/10 and I highly recommend this to someone who likes challenging bosses like sekiro and the ones who wants a choice based game.

Broken on steam deck with a controller. Soft locked me out of the main quest. for a game that came out on consoles the controller support does not work or with the steam deck

worth one playthrough, very meh

This game was difficult in the first actual gameplay level after tutorial! :S ended up getting a trainer to skill up and play through, mainly because I wanted to check it out for the art style, but then I found the progression system for gear and the combat to actually play pretty well. Some iffyness with the camera on occasion, and it might feel a little dated compared to other third person action rpgs, definitely reminds you of the xbox era, but this was actually pretty good.

Big issue with the controller recognition though, had to search the discussion boards for a fix and it requires downloading a github repo. But yeah I like a lot of elements of this from a design perspective. Pick it up for a dollar!

---{ 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

---{ 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

---{ ? / 10 }---
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So I tried this some years ago, tried it, couldn't get it to work on my then very terrible PC, and recently decided to give it another go.

The combat is very janky, but it's passable, and I would have put up with it for the story, as I'm chronically unable to end even bad stories as I want to complete them so that I can put them to bed forever. If you, unlike me, can get past my issues, this might be a fun game for you, if you really have nothing else to play in the genre, or are on a budget and pick this up on sale for like a dollar. It's quality is certainly reflected by it's current price, though personally, I wouldn't have paid more for it than you would get it for on sale, and I morn the money I wasted in the past on this.


Back to my personal experience however... Much like my experience with Avatar: The Last Airbender (the movie by M. Night Shyamalan), I couldn't even get into the story because the acting was so terrible, and the dialogue was written at the level I would expect from a middle schooler. That's not me being insulting either. The language doesn't fit at all the aesthetic that I'm expecting from a medieval fantasy setting, nor do the characters sound like actual people or adults.

The level of thought and care that went into the writing is abysmal, and so unforgivably terrible that I couldn't push past it to continue the game. Completely took me out of it as I literally could not suspend my disbelief.

I'm sure the story is interesting, but the vehicle for that is the characters, and if you don't write them or the dialogue well, then you can have the greatest story in the world, and it isn't worth the paper or bits it takes up. Bound by Flame suffers greatly from that, as the writing is overly dramatic, and over the top, and not indicative of the world or the setting whatsoever, which ironically could have been remedied by simply reading some better writers, and copying their style if nothing else.

I give this a hard pass, but perhaps you might find enough value in it to have some fun.

❤ Audience ❤

☐ Beginner
☐ Casual Gamer
☑ Normal Gamer
☐ Expert

☼ Graphics ☼

☐ Bad
☑ Alright
☐ Good
☐ Beautiful
☐ Fantastic

♬ Music ♬

☐ Bad
☐ Alright
☑ Good
☐ Beautiful
☐ Fantastic

☠ Difficulty ☠

☐ Easy
☐ Average
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Hard
☐ Unfair

§ Bugs §

☐ Bugs destroy the game
☐ Lots of bugs
☑ Few Bugs
☐ You can use them for speedrun
☐ Nothing encountered

☯ Story ☯

☐ There is none
☐ Bad
☑ Alright
☐ Good
☐ Fantastic

⚔ Gameplay ⚔

☑ Frustrating
☐ Sleepy
☐ Boring
☐ Fun
☑ Challenging

۞ Game time / Length ۞

☐ Really short (0 - 3 hours)
☐ Short (4 - 7 hours)
☑ Few hours (8 - 20 hours)
☐ Long (21-50 hours)
☐ Very Long (51-100 hours)
☐ Extremely Long (101+ hours)

$ Price / Quality $

☐ Full price
☑ Wait for Sale
☐ Don't buy
☐ Refund it if you can

The last part of the game is a bit to long.
A healthy amount of jank.
But overall still enjoyable

Some potential, but mostly an exercise in frustration. Unresponsive controls, unreliable target locks, main questlines that suddenly lock you out of side quests with no warning, and tedious boss fights make this unworthy of the time invested. Play something that has its act together.

For $1.30... hard to go wrong, have to give it a chance though, it seems like trash early, and I considered not bothering with it at the first boss. Pick a playstyle, use what it gives you to use, get used to it and it is worth... $1.30, maybe even $1.50. Easy to get lost though, bit annoying. The maps, quest markers, and menus needed work.

I spent approx 23 hours on this, so decent value for the price. Didn't bother with the last boss after losing a couple of times, due to it apparently having about 5 phases, and being a ridiculous jump above the rest of the game. There is no respec in this game, and not a lot of info available, so first run is trial and error, and upgrades are very limited/constrained. Not sure about the developers, would be wary of anything else they did. This could have been good, but it isn't. More weapons, better upgrades and access to upgrade points, lock on that aligns you to the enemy you are locked onto so you can dodge properly, the ability to upgrade and set up your companions, the ability to have 2 companions instead of 1 (seems obvious given the control options for them)... just the start of the list.

I tried but act 2 and 3 just repeat the same enemies with bigger health points, they were already spongy to begin with. I understand that some builds are better suited for this game but it's an rpg that just ruins it to be honest. If the story was better I might be able to force myself through but it's pretty terrible as well.

Bound by Flame plays like a lower budget Witcher 2 and it's done fairly well. The story feels smaller scale but you do at least get quite a few companions, romance options as well as a few endings.

It's a bit older now so don't expect too much on the presentation as the world feels quite small scale too. Combat feels a bit janky too as your hits don't have that much visual impact and enemies in the later chapters are damage sponges so you'll need to make use of your powers and traps.

Any fans of Dragon Age/Mass Effect/Witcher series who are looking for a quick adventure will find at least some fun in this if you temper your expectations.

This often goes on sale for around $1 and it is definitely worth it at that price.

Very clunky and buggy. Absolute boring and unenjoyable. ++ xbox controller is not recognized

This game is really awesome and feels a lot like The Witcher. It got some special and fantastic graphics and the combat is simple but pretty good. The visuals is carrying this game a lot tho.

A decent fantasy RPG with the unique lore of a dying world and companions, although dialogues with them leave much to be desired. Was pretty disappointed with the reuse of game models from another title of the developers, Mars.

It's garbage.

I tried playing this again in 2024 and it feels just as bad as it did in 2020 or whenever I got this on sale. If you have run out of stuff to play in that Skyrim, Piranabytes, etc, kinda space, then you can give it a try, but if my "recommendation" is "if you ran out of everything else to play" then play everything else.

The difficulty doesn't "feel right" for how flashy the game wants to be. Either it is WAY too easy on the easiest difficulty or it RAMPS up so harshly that you need to grind out materials just for mines/bombs.

How the skill trees work mean you really need to just all in one of the trees (and if you want to play with fire don't level up until you get it an hour or so in). Healing is attached to the "warrior" stance, which really just meant swapping to that stance to heal and waiting. Dual blades had THE HIGHEST dps PERIOD, and the fire tree keeps you at range and lets you deal with the GIANT GROUPS of enemies.

a hidden gem that is tailor-made for your fellow pyromaniac

Short review after finishing the game on buffalo (2nd highest difficulty): altough this game has many flaws which i will point out i still recommend this game, play it however on hawk or lower difficulty as higher ones just turn into cheese or parry fest.

Pros:
- Interesting companions (Marthas best one !), with sidestories and short romance options
- 2 routes either demon or human and 3 endings gives the game replayability and choices
- Good music
- Nice enviroments and interesting monsters
- Dark story with little hope left that gets you pumped to beat the odds (from zero to hero...or something worse)
- Good graphics and models for an AA title

Cons:
- Very short story about 12 hours without sidestories
- Lore and wordbuilding very lacking which is a shame beacuse it has so much potential (other icelords? dwarves? dragons? demon? only mentioned to hook you in but not explained in any form)
- Higher difficulty turns into cheese with explosive traps, poison bolts or parry fest, some people say harder then Darksouls but for wrong reasons
- Limited skill system for all 3 classes (warrior, ranger, pyromancer) if we could even call them classes
- Only 3 zones and last small zone (they look good but way to few of them)

I would buy if on sale and play at hawk difficulty, you would get a great action rpg out of it with some replayability and flaws that you can overcome and still enjoy it.

This is the best RPG from Spiders.

Simple linear world, weird but entertaining dialogue, enjoyable combat, if you stay on the second difficulty and it's short enough to not overstay it's welcome.

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Este fue uno de los primeros juegos de estilo rpg que jugue siendo joven y en mi opinion aun a dia de hoy sigue siendo bueno lo recomiendo.

Mecánicas de combate poco púlidas. No se sienten cambios significativos al equipar nuevas armas o mejorarlas. La historia es mediocre cómo mucho con actuaciones de voz hechas sin ganas ( a excepción de algunos personajes)

"Bound by Flame" is the Adventure-RPG game which is settled in the atmospheric lore about war and desperation. Accidentally, the main hero has found himself in the possession by some Mysterious magical entity( the "Demon").
Do you accept the power of this creature or you maybe you are more confident about your ''natural'' skills? The decision is yours...

Spam Mini-bosses that spam unblockable Power attacks Simulator

It is a good and fun game, but there are some terrible narrative-plot points that make you want to scream at the screen, due to how stupid they are.

I quite enjoy the combat, feels weighty. The year it was made and the budget that was put into it should be considered.

One of my favorite games of all time. Simple yet great

This game is boring! Play the game for 4 minutes and have to listen to uninspired dialog for 12 minutes!

If I wanted to read a book I'd buy a book. If I wanted to watch a play I'd buy tickets to the theatre.

It's not even intriguing and none of the characters have any depth or rational. I digress This is not a game. this is a really bad movie!.

It's not even executed well, I'm constantly having to go to the map just yo guide myself through this bland environment with random stuff all over the place.

Whom ever was the director clearly does not play games!

It is a very mediocre game that has an extremely tedious and long introduction chapter. Yet by the middle, you are starting to get into it. Especially when you maxed one of your skills, it is always hard with Spiders because despite its own charm the gameplay and dialogues are pretty bland. However, if you have nothing to do, try it out.

Quite surprised by this title honestly, I'm currently going through my gaming backlog and I dont think i wouldve touched it otherwise but after giving it time and effort, I quite enjoyed myself... although the difficulty spike for the last boss is quite big if you do the side quests at the end and farm up your potions, traps and arrows you should have a breeze beating it.

Great short dark fantasy adventure. Final boss is bs.

A decent slice of Eurojank. Don;t set your expectations too high and you'll have a decent time.

I had a lot of fun playing Bound by Flame but it has a lot of problems that are going to keep others away. Without any modifications this game has significant issues on AMD that could risk causing seizures if you don't install a dll but even after that you will experience issues.

Pros:
Okay combat and customization
choices that affect the story
good music

Cons
You feel week even after grinding
not the best story
controller compatibility/recognition issues outside of big picture mode
graphical issues on amd cards

Honestly among my favourite games! I have a strange fondness for games that let you play as things traditionally viewed as monstrous, doubly so if it gets actually explored like this does

The game crashes when opening doors that connect to other sections of the map, like from Valvenor to the swamps. This also causes you to be unable to continue from your save as it will load the game at the moment you opened a door. I'm playing on a Predator Helios Neo 16 so my specs can't be the issue. After looking through the technical support forum on Steam, it seems similar issues have been reported by other players with no solution provided. Can't seem to find anything on the web either. Good thing I got it for $1 on a discount, won't bother asking for a refund. I'll pay for the 3 hours gameplay.

I guess I was too busy playing the first Dark Souls game when this gem was released, and I regret that! The world this game built is interesting, the characters are a bit high fantasy cliche but still charming, and the combat gameplay is hard but engaging. Yes, this is a soulslike game just three years before the first Dark Souls game came out. Such wasted potential here! It deserves a remake or at least a sequel.