Edge Of Eternity

Edge of Eternity is an open-exploration, turn-based RPG that features two siblings who are seeking a cure to a widespread disease named the Corruption. The combat system features an ATB mechanic on a hex grid arena, and an ability/stat system based on crystals equipped to the character's weapon. Let me give you my breakdown of the game, and what led me to not recommending this game:

Pros:
*Well-polished world that has a good amount to explore, farming mats and enemies at your pace, encouragement through quests to look for loot, and movement-based puzzles incentivizing players with additional loot.
*Excellent facial tracking in cutscenes with main characters
*Custom difficulty adjustments to tailor your experience in the game as you play, such as splitting battle difficulty with other sources of immersion (e.g. whether you can teleport or not, how often you can save)
*Good customization with stats and skills in weapon-based skill system
*Generally impressive game construction from a small studio
*Opportunities for additional backstory/lore from MCs when resting at inns as story progresses
*In-menu bug report for devs including an auto-screenshot feature to help with supporting devs

Cons:
*Overall issues with character writing, sense of MCs connectedness to the plot and their world. In other words, MCs feel more "thrown into" the story and have a mission more than they seem to fit into the world they exist in. Further, MCs naturally have a sibling bickering-type relationship which appears more put on than actually organic/realistic
*Audio issues up the wazoo. Had to personally disable sound effects as I had an audio glitch that persisted during a combat and never went away, even after restarting the game. Other issues include audio files being clipped short and audio not playing during certain cutscenes when it likely should, or makes sense to
*Difficulty with camera manipulation during combat making some targeting impossible due to odd choices in camera locking
*Unintuitive presentation and use of certain gameplay mechanics. Tutorials for certain aspects of the game didn't feel as involved as they should, and the crafting system could use work. Having *4 separate crafting benches* (weapons/armor/consumables/crafting catalysts) seems a bit disjointed and frustrating to me, especially when the benches themselves are in different areas/across map areas

Nit-Picky:
*Gameplay loop feels overall more grindy than engaged and refreshing. The weather system in the game, which changes weaknesses/enemy spawns and can be controlled in major cities, seems overall unnecessary to mess with (though I will admit that might be more useful later on in the game, since I had only played 5 hours)

Overall, I would not recommend this game if you're looking for a streamlined RPG experience that has an engaging story. I believe the game promises more than it can keep up with and it shows this quite early on. I had really tried to give it a chance in the face of some of these issues, but by the time I made it to the big city as part of the main story, I felt like I couldn't continue from there due to the issues piling up. This is, however, a good game if you're okay contending with audio glitches and a pretty unengaging story (so far for me).

Game starts out rather slow and not very interesting, it picks up after chapter 1, and gets only better.
Content is unique along with its story, you get to control party of 4 with option to switch out members, and build their abilities, armor, weapons. You travel open world, mostly load screens when you talk, teleport and story sequences. Each companion has its own short story.
Can buy the game dirt cheap and its worth it.

Pros
- zones design is good
- amount of grind is low
- music is alright
- sfx is okay
- combat difficulty can by adjusted mid game
- option to min max characters with crystals and gear
- crafting is decent ( armor, weapons, utilities, crystal
- quests are rather simple, they are there to help you level and make some extra money
- main quest is cool along with its story
- leveling up is rather quick
- world bosses are cool looking
- save anywhere option
- plenty places to teleport across the continent
- didnt encounter game breaking bugs
- cool mount early on

Cons
- some texture glitches
- audio can get little glitchy at times
- there seem to be some game content missing but its not game breaking in any way, like custom outfits

This game is not finished and was abandoned by the devs. Don't buy this, give your money to people who finish their projects.

I had some hope the game would be decent at 80% discount but there are so many major issues to start with.


- City mini-map is way too close and barely tells you where to go for your quest no matter where you are.

- Emptiness all over. The map is inflated to make it feel like you're exploring vast areas. But it's just 3x bigger than it could've been.

- Poor directioning. The game tells you things like this : "go to *place name*, they're waiting for you"... Yeah? Where is it? It's a new game with new places and names, how dafuq do you expect anyone to be like "oh, seems straight foward enough, let's get going. It's right there". IT DOESN'T EVEN GIVE YOU ANY DIRECTION! At least tell us things like this "The exit's north-east from here through the commercial area, then look west from the gate and follow that path, you'll get there safely". Is it THAT complicated to give simple directions???

- Combat seems a bit stretched for very early game. It shouldn't take over a minute to beat a tutorial enemy. Too much health.

- Shadow glitch after a few minutes, it flickers slowly a huge shadow like someone's playing with the lights.

Finished the game, not a bad run and the game actually fit well with the description "small company trying their best to create this game".

Gameplay --- pretty fun to play, I like how each characters have their own totally different play styles but the pacing is somewhat slow, could be better if there was 2-3x speed while battling. The puzzle tower was quite amusing but sadly we didnt get them anymore after early chapters

Graphic --- the environments are sight for the sore eyes but characters polygon are not the best you'd want to see

Characters --- too little playable characters TBH, there're only 5 permanent characters and you get to use 4 of them in the party, also there's a blonde girl who has her own collection card on steam but didnt appear in the game at all lol. I guess dev planned to add her in later chapters but they ran out of budget before fully completing everything. The most saddest part is my most favorite female character isnt permanent and left the party after a while

Story --- quite confusing at first, but the plot will be revealed on the very late game, also there're things that left unfinished yet, like there were 3 main conflicts in the plot but we only solved one of them, where we may get to know the rest in sequel

Bugs --- there're some but not game breaking, it will somewhat annoyed you but not really that much of an issue, got game crash like 4-5 times along the way

7/10 --- recommended to buy this game while there's discount going on, it's pretty cheap for this quality of game

It's a pretty good RPG overall, I've been enjoying it.

While I do recommend the game for my fellow RPG lovers I must however caution you.
This game has been very.. VERY buggy for me.

Nothing particularly game breaking, just annoying.. like dialogue missing in several parts, some random FPS drops that shouldn't happen, a skill that became permanent for seemingly no reason (but that one was in my favour so I won't complain :D)

Main character having their current weapon in flashback cutscenes then a different weapon in flashback combat sequences.
Shadows flickering a lot.. this can be avoided buy turning the quality down completely.
Enemy glitching into the floor during a battle and generally just silly things like that.
Mostly visual or audio related.

The game is still fun though and i'm enjoying the story so far so if you're willing to forgive a couple.. well a good few bugs then yeah give this game a chance.
But maybe wait for a sale or something.. just because of how buggy the game is.

Wish I could refund this game but I bought it during Early Access. Game has serious bug issue and I was soft locked out of the game not once, but TWICE. How can you have disappearing menu for ability set up? That's just really bad. Reported bug and tried to get help on their discord but never got a response. What triggered me and made me decide to leave this review is the fact that their discord suddenly became active because the studio is launching a new game. The audacity they have, changing the discord server name and pretended all those bug issues never happened and proceeded to promote their new game. Disgusting and irresponsible developers. Shame on you. Will never support any of their game.

Awesome.

Experienced a few crashes/bugs.

This game is great it like final fantasy with open world and awesome characters and nice story line so far!

7/10
I know it's an indie game but it has so much potential if's it has been polished more.
The only stat that matters in this game is SPEED!!

A fairly okay RPG game, not bad but not good either.

While story is pretty interesting, but it would be nice if some part of the story plays a little longer and builds on the context gradually rather than just giving it straight on the face. There's also a foreshadowing scene that while gave a quick teaser of what the player can expect on the story much later, the scene itself felt out of place instead because of how sudden it was given out and how the scene doesn't fit the current condition of the characters at the time.

Battle system is pretty balanced and fun to play but still have a lot of room that can be improved, specially on the skill/crystal system. with how the skills are locked on specific crystal that are randomly dropped by enemies and how limited the slot a weapon provided made progression felt really slow especially on the early game due to the characters couldn't get

Explorations are pretty bare-bone, there's not much to do with the stuffs you collect while exploring the map until you unlock it later in the story. For equipment this is fine, but at the very least the characters should have known basic recovery items recipe considering the whole setting and background they have. The enemies are also quite sparse compared to the size of the map in some bigger areas, while also being too dense and cramped on smaller area

Haven't gotten far in the game yet. though despite the problem i point out, i loved the characters, they felt alive and doesn't feel 2D as a character, especially the mother.

Unfortunately, due to how unpolished the game to me. I couldn't put myself to recommend it

I can't understand how this game has "Mostly Negative" recent reviews. I just noticed the sale and was telling a friend about it.
I played this years ago, didn't finish it and forgot where I left off, thinking about starting a new game.
Is it the best game ever? No.
It is a solid JRPG tho.
7.5/10 would absolutely recommend
And It's on sale for $5.99 right now, you'd have to be crazy to pass up that deal.

Somebody (and by "somebody," I mean Midgar Studio) put a lot of love into this game.

And if love was enough, "Edge Of Eternity" would be a smash-hit tribute to the "Final Fantasy X" era of Squee!-nix releases. It doesn't really get there, but it tries its best.

Beautiful, yet melancholy world? Check. Spiky-haired dude who broods and swings big swords? Check. Powerful, female magic wielder? Check. Slow reveal of a twisty plot that has you fighting a physical god by the end? Check. With all those boxes ticked, why doesn't "Edge' O' E" reach into "Final Fantasy" territory?

Mostly, it comes down to not achieving a fully polished finish on everything.

The combat system is different and interesting overall, but gets very repetitive. (The auto-battle feature doesn't help, because my characters kept choosing to use unhelpful skills.) It's not that other battle systems don't have you performing the same action quite a lot, but they're snappier about things. Each battle in "Edge Of Eternity" is more difficult and risky than an equivalent encounter in a "Final Fantasy," but the rewards don't scale to that level...especially as the game progresses. In the same vein, there are some interesting enemies in the world, but there's not enough variety. It's not that "Final Fantasy" never does a palette-swapped or re-textured variation of a common opponent, but "Edge" seems to lean on that shortcut a little too heavily. (Of course, there's only so much you can do with a smaller team - let's be honest about that.) A real-time, "Final Fantasy XII" sort of thing with a similar kind of scripting system would have been good for this title, in my opinion.

Connected to that is the crafting system. I got plans for powerful weapons, but I never seemed to get what I needed to build them. You have to obtain a recipe for the weapon, but also have recipes for all the components, and the recipes for the components of those components, and figuring out what you need involves a clunky menu system. And often, I couldn't get what I needed at shops! I basically gave up on crafting after a while, which I think contributed to my getting stuck at the final encounter.

The characters are interesting (although Daryon is a bit too invested into the tortured soul cliches at times), but their emotional cores aren't truly interwoven enough to get that ensemble-cast feeling. Plus, a significant chunk of their exposition is tied up in scenes that are mostly dialogue between characters sitting around a table. It felt like a chore to get through.

And speaking of chores, the sidequesting didn't have enough of a feel of tying in with the characters' and player's motivations. It felt as though it was there because it was expected, but I was rolling my eyes at it by the end.

As I mentioned, I got stuck at the climactic point of the game. "Edge Of Eternity" does what I've encountered a few times over the last years, which is that the game lets you handle challenges more than adequately through almost all of the narrative, and then wraps with a fight that wants very different things from what you've been pursuing so far. It's not that a final encounter shouldn't test you - it should - but it's a bummer when the solution is to emphasize a player and character skillset that you haven't spent tens of hours building. It's like you've been studying physics for weeks, and then the end exam is biology.

So, with all my complaining, why did I click the "Recommend" button?

It's because I can see how much care went into the game, and I did stick with it for a long time. I think it's worth a shot. Maybe you'll like it and look past the flaws.

It smashed my old saves! Im grumpy for now, but will certainly give it another Playthru once i cooled off!

Because it's a well made, handcrafted Game! My first JRPG!

Recommend!

Um lixo total
Empresa horrivel

Solid game, bit buggy in some areas, but was able to play on keyboard + mouse no problem. 7/10 game

bad optimization, lag, and crashes... did you put everything into the update function? the story seems interesting, visuals are beautiful but unfortunately the gameplay is not.

Like a TEMU version of Final Fantasy.

This should be a $5-10 max. It is comparable to a tablet based rpg.

The experience almost immediately doesn't feel finished. The animations are empty, the main character is skinny to the bone with a running animation that doesn't really fit and not two steps out into the first field all you see is empty space. A little more clutter would have been good. Where's the grass? The bushes? The trees? It's completely flat. Interacting with NPCs didn't feel great either, unpolished. I think there's a lot to learn here. Stuff to build on, but I'm not going to invest any more time in this game. Maybe the next one though if there's more going on.
I liken the emptiness to Overgrowth, but with Overgrowth the emptiness feels more natural in that it's a second thought. You never go near it because you take the planned path the Devs want you to take. You don't notice it as much. The animations also felt better than what you see and feel here in Edge of Eternity. Where Overgrowth is a finished game Edge of Eternity needs more work

Just finished playing this one. It's quite similar in style to Final Fantasy 10 but with Fire Emblem battle mechanics. Unlike both of those games, this game's story and characters aren't quite as memorable, nor is it as polished. It is a mish-mash of interesting game design, you can change the weather to give you an advantage against certain enemies when employing magical attacks. It has a fast travel system and auto combat to help you get through the very large maps. The game is largely voice acted as well. It reminds me a bit of the 'Tales of' games. There are a few game glitches but none of them stop you from progressing with the game. I'd recommend it to anyone who likes slow moving JRPGs with huge maps.

I really want to like this game and give it a good review, but I find it pretty much impossible to play with keyboard and mouse. Every time I try to change the window size so it will fit on my TV, it won't let me select yes when it asks me to confirm the changes. I don't like to use my controller to play games on my monitor, I prefer to use my TV for that.

I had a graphical issue and also text freezing on screen....its a good game but its also very liner style rpg tho i do like how each character can unlock their own unique weapons and each weapon has their own crystal combos.

a well rounded game definitely worth a try.

Stunning visuals, good soundtrack and likeable characters, particularly outstanding from a small studio.
The side quests are interesting too, the devs really put their hearts into the game!

buggy garbage, refunded immediately...

if you get it on sale for super cheap I would say try it out. I am glad I only paid 5 bucks. it's ok. just, ok. it has some stuff going for it but has a lot wrong with it, and I feel kinda bored for big chunks of time playing it.

- So fun to play, rating 95/100

Very cheap looking game.

This game feels very unfinished. It's hard to focus on each element because everything is off but basically it all feels placeholder like a proof of concept not even a demo. The controls feel disconnected, floaty, and lag, the camera seems to do what it wants in combat, the combat animations are slow, the voice acting is worthless as is the music, the UI is somehow presented on rails as hard as a mobile game but is so unintuitive that I feel lost in instantly. . . . Please, don't buy this.

Naah too many bugs and the crafting mechanics dosent make any sense tbh

Edge of CRASHTERNITY!
I had 2 game crashes to desktop in under an hour.

The Bad:
I played this game on the max difficulty. They seem to have gone with the classic "inflate health and damage numbers" strategy for increasing difficulty. It really is a shame because there is a positioning mechanic and a charge/interruption/backstab mechanic which could easily have been a source of extra difficulty if the enemies were smart enough to use it. I don't know if it's just because I've only played the first couple of areas, but enemies don't try to get behind you (even when in large groups) and only ever move in a straight line towards you. If you have multiple characters on one tile, the enemies don't seem to have a competent targeting system for which character they decide to hit; meaning that your mage can charge an attack right next to the enemies and if you dice roll luckily enough, the enemies will just ignore the mage instead of interrupting the spell. The AI really undermines the potential that the positioning could have had as a mechanic.

Leveling doesn't really feel satisfying. Having spells tied to crystals you find around the world is interesting, but in practice it lessens the reward of grinding levels. In other JRPGs the best part about leveling was getting new and better spells to use. It gave a good sense of progression and made combat more interesting. As far as I can tell, leveling only makes your damage and health numbers go up. Also having spells tied to the crystals makes it so that you end up having the same small amount of spells for a long time. In the 2.5 hours of gameplay I only got two spells each on my characters and they were all damage spells just with a different element attribute.

If you care about this sort of thing there does seem to be at least one woke person on the dev team. For whatever reason your mother is a black woman. There is no indication in the dialogue that she is anything other than their blood-related mother and it is honestly immersion breaking to have these two white (one of them is blonde) kids have Mom that looks like she just got off a boat from Kenya. It doesn't instill any confidence in the rest of the story for me as it indicates that diversity quotas are more important than a logical and cohesive story.

Also there's this popping sound that comes every once in a while from the BGM that is constantly playing and after a while it started to hurt my ears.

The Good:
The combat is engaging *enough*. I like the animation work for the different attacks. The voice acting is better than Xenoblade lol.

Good graphics, but gameplay just isn't there. Interesting combat mechanics, but again...it's just not there. Too bad.

Good fun so far.

For those with motion sickness like me, this game has plenty of options to explore. I went from very dizzy and bad headaches to no motion sickness at all. It has FoV, AA, and motion blur toggles among other settings. Personally I maxed FoV, set motion blur off, set my AA to something that didn't make the grass flash wildly (I have an old rig that doesn't support the newer types of aa), and fiddled with my settings until it was a steady fps.

TLDR: Not perfect, but was fun. Hour 10 was where I became hooked. I really enjoyed this game. It has technical issues and it is a bit buggy, but I think it still manages to be fun despite that. Its has an interesting story with characters that have a fair amount of depth. Combat was a bore for me, but didn't take away too much from the motivation the story gave me to completely every side quest and the main story.

I'll start with what I disliked.
It was buggy and sometimes you'll come across a few weird gameplay decisions that just feel very strange. If you can't stand anything but perfection this is not your game. If you can handle some weird glitches and bugs and remember sometimes the 'continue' takes the last autosave instead of your most recent save (just go back to menu and manually load up most recent save) you'll be fine.

The worst thing about the game outside of bugs and issues, was the combat. I really found it super boring. Even in the late game were you have a decent amount of options its a very uninspired atb turnbased game. The crystal system, where you learn your skills and get some extra stats is fraught with bugs and just not fun to use. Would have preferred a linear 'get skill on level up' with more thought put into how these skills could combo with your teammates and for the character themselves. Combat ends up being, damage dealers spam your most damaging skill usually the elemental weakness and supports do support things unless not needed then spam most damaging skill. I played on normal and found the difficulty reasonable throughout. Never hard but it did make me jump for a few wins. Just wish I could have been more engaged with the combat then wanting to skip it all of the time.
Directly counter to that I ended up doing all of the hunts and side quests I could find. Despite the combat being a bore, it was good enough to get me by and the rest of the game carried itself.

The game looks great. I'm not sure what some reviewers are saying about the game looking bad or not as good ingame. What you see is what you get. I also have a very old rig at this point, and run the game on medium at 40-60 fps depending on area, generally 50s and the game still looks nice and pretty. They did a great job on on the environments and the amount of foliage they managed to cram into one area and make it work as well as it does is a miracle.

The story is where I found a lot of my amusement but that is with a caveat. The beginning is very not interesting. I'm not going to speculate why, though I suspect the lack of an actually fun combat system contributes to it. The first few hours were a slog. However once I reached 5 hours I started to have fun, and by 10 I was invested. By 20 I was having a really good time that lasted me the rest of my 50~ hours. If you have the game and don't immediately refund it, maybe give it a chance over a few more hours. I am genuinely interested in the siblings and co's adventure and I'm looking forward to any future installments in their story. There was plenty left at the end to continue with but was also a good solid end if it never does.

I think what really made me enjoy the story was that most of the main characters both try for depth and the story made an attempt at playing with character themes that we really don't see in these sorts of stories unless you dig for them. It mostly landed pretty well, though I would say with a few missteps here and there. The plot is pretty cool as well. Yes if you really want to break it down to its basic parts its similar to any jrpg, but that's diminishing every game out there. What makes games fun is how these basic parts form more complex ideas, and for Edge of Eternity it has some really cool ideas that it does a great job with.

There are still numerous bugs, specifically with combat. After 50 hours of play the crystal forging system is completely unclear, crafting is basically useless with thousands of mats in storage, and there is a lot of just back and forth running around.

7/10. This game is a bit of a labor of love. Its rough and unpolished, lot of bugs that can be annoying but if you can ignore them, this game is pretty fun. It has a pretty cool grid based JRPG combat system that takes a while to learn, but once you do it can be very fun. The story is great IMO and I've actually used several things from this game in my DND campaign. The characters are hit or miss, both in playability and personality. I enjoyed it but I can see how it wouldnt be great for everyone.

Edge of Eternity failed to meet expectations on several fronts. First and foremost, the game’s unnecessarily high system requirements are disappointing, especially considering the lackluster graphical quality. Screenshots appear significantly more polished than the actual game, creating a false impression of visual appeal.

It feels like there’s potential — JRPG elements, humor, character progression, and stats — but ultimately, it falls flat. From the start, the game feels dull and slow, plagued by numerous graphical and functional bugs that further hinder the overall experience and immersion.

The combat system also disappointed — the turn-based battle mechanics feel outdated and less engaging compared to modern alternatives. The boring and drawn-out battles drastically reduce interest and pacing.

Additionally, the price of the game is unjustifiably high given the low-quality content and overall experience. What’s also baffling are the overwhelmingly positive reviews, which seem difficult to justify.

In reviews, the game is often compared to Final Fantasy, but I’ve only played XV and found no similarities whatsoever, aside from the fact that they are both JRPGs. Final Fantasy is clearly on an entirely different, much higher level.

A lot of graphical glitches and a few bugs. Decent story and gameplay though. Deserved a sequel if the developer can avoid making the same technical problems.

UI is so bad.
i cant stand any more of it

the game have good mechanic and not so bad gameplay. gameplay is similar to wild arm.
i feel like the game is trying to be skyrim and final fantasy at the same time but the execution is just so bad

Despite its flaws, decent game.

Decent game that is still getting love.

The games battle system glitches out in a scripted story battle in early chapter 3, making it impossible to proceed.

ok

bad game

General review: Good, not Great, but has the potential to be better.

The overall feeling of this game can probably be summarized as (1) an indie game trying to look like a big studio game, and (2) going out of its way to try and hit every classic jrpg trope in the manual.

I'm very interested in seeing the next game that this studio makes (whether it's a Part 2 or something else) so they can showcase what they learned from making this one.

-- Detailed comments --
Overall, it's a very large game but the pacing doesn't quite land right:
- It's a party-based tactical game but you don't get a full party until 2/3 of the way through the game and don't get enough party members so that you can swap someone out until almost the end.
- The setting is interesting and can be engaging (notwithstanding the edgelord protagonist and mary sue female companion), but getting to the end feels very much like a "Chapter 1" that needs to continue or you don't feel like you actually got a conclusion to anything.
- Some of the terrain mechanics that can be very interesting really only get used once or only in a specific zone and you never see them again.
- There aren't a lot of equipment options, it's mostly just better or worse or slightly-worse-until-you-level-it-up.
- As a tactics-type game it falls into the same trap that they all do, where increasing your speed to get more turns is objectively the best option in every situation.
- The areas are absolutely massive and can be beautiful, but they feel like there is a lot of wasted space (in every sense of the word). Part of this is because the way the combat grid works as an overlay on the actual field there needs to be enough room to give full battle maps... but it still feels like there is a lot of distance to cover in every area.

-very scuffed, game feels unfinished mouse/keyboard or controller both feel incompatible
-bugs such as not being able to target enemies or falling through the floor in combat
+cool characters and stories

Do not get me wrong, edge of eternity is not a bad game. It has all the ingredients that a great JRPG has, unfortunately the way it is executed is not very favorable. I liked the characters for the most part, but it's hard to make a connection with the side characters when they look almost same like (and are so much different style wise from the main cast). I liked the exploration surprisingly and the combat is pretty fun ( Except when the enemy is faster than you and kills you in three turns before you get to act but that's a me problem ). I actually think it's quite admirable for everything it tries to do,( Especially the scenery, and the dialogue is quite charming at times ). I'm proud of what the dev team was able to achieve, i just hope their next project can become a step above this. I only gave this a "No" review because steam does not allow for a "Just ok" rating. If you're feeling to pick up and play an RPG then Edge of Eternity is certainly an option for you to choose, but there are definitely others in the market that are a bit better.

Like FF8. Go play Final Fantasy VIII instead.

It's a long drawn out game that tries to be more than what it can.

1. Massive world that is barren and devoid of any activities besides random mobs scattered around.
2. 30 hours in and I only have the same starting 2 party members. 30 HOURS!!
3. It's a buggy mess with music overlapping each other, and characters clipping during cutscenes.


It's been 3 years since the game got released and it's running like it's in Alpha stage...