Absolver

Неплохая игра, на любителя, но я в ней заскучал, и не только из-за того, что немного народу. Скорее мне не по вкусу пришелся общий дизайн игры. Соулслайк механики присутствуют, но нет ощущения вызова, который влечет тебя в игру каждый день.
+- 6/10
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A decent game, for a niche audience, but I got bored with it, and not just because of the low player count. Rather, I didn't quite like the overall game design. Souls-like mechanics are present, but there's no sense of challenge that draws you into the game every day.
+- 6/10

I put over 100 hours on PS4. Amazing game for those who wants to experience a different type of PVP fighting game. PVE is not that great.

This is the only fightin game I come back too.

This is one of those games where if you get into it, then you're in. "Getting in" means actually understanding whats going on and how to apply what you learned, and will continue to learn. Like most fighting games, story is an afterthought with potential lore to speculate on. This game can sink its three hooks into, 100% unique combat, "fashion souls" customizing your characters look that could last a life time, and custom fighting styles via the combat deck editor. The only satisfying thing left to do is fight other players in this game. Sure there's lfg discords, but due to the games jank and it's terrible netcode, often times it doesn't matter how good your internet is. There's always some kind of hitch or issue where attacks don't work like they should, or animations just straight up break. Variability should be 100% on the player with as little influence from internet connection as possible, instead of the games jank stepping in whenever it feels like it.

Had this game on console and coming back to it on PC. Very addicting and competetive as well!

If you are looking into buying this title ill explain the key points
-Souls type arcade game
-stance mechanism like For Honor / Sekiro
-Learn new martial arts moves and styles through combat
-Make your style better by using the techniques you've learned and creating a "deck" coordinating with each stance

The game is very easy to learn, but hard to master. Very much worth the money and can easily steal around 100 hours from you.

hard as hell i cant win aghghhagahagha aghgahgahgahg good game tho

Combat is very fun and smooth. story is short, and barely any player playing but still fun

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Awesome Sauce Game, can be playedthrough Any% Glitchless in 30-46 mins and Any% in 7.

在之前就更新中文了，也是感谢作者I updated Chinese before.Thanks to the author,(It is suggested that the author continue to update and optimize the game)(Add animation of enemy's execution)

《赦免者》（Absolver）是一款优缺点较为明显的动作角色扮演游戏，以下是对其的评价：

优点

- 独特的战斗系统：游戏的战斗系统设计独特，玩家可以通过组合不同的招式来自定义自己的战斗风格。招式丰富多样，有攻击、闪避、佯攻以及反击等，并且每个招式都有起始姿态和结束姿态，玩家需要根据实际情况进行合理的连招组合，增加了战斗的策略性和趣味性。
- 丰富的武术动作：包含了多种武术风格，如 Kahlt method、Windfall、Forsaken 等，每种风格都有其独特的技能和动作，还可以习得所有的招式，让玩家可以根据自己的喜好选择不同的战斗方式，体验不同武术风格的魅力。
- 流畅的动作体验：游戏中的战斗动作流畅且富有打击感，玩家在战斗中能够感受到拳拳到肉的快感，使战斗过程更加爽快和刺激。
- 开放世界探索：游戏设定在一个开放的世界中，玩家可以自由探索，发现隐藏的任务和秘密，增加了游戏的探索性和自由度。
- 角色定制性强：玩家可以高度定制自己的角色外观，包括服装、装备和颜色等，还能定制角色的招式表，使每个角色都独一无二，满足了玩家个性化的需求。
- 多人互动有趣：支持多人在线合作和 PVP 战斗，玩家可以与其他玩家组队共同完成任务，也可以在 PVP 竞技场中与其他玩家进行激烈的对战，测试自己的战斗技巧，增加了游戏的社交性和竞技性。

缺点

- 单人剧情薄弱：单人剧情非常简单，缺乏深度和复杂性，剧情与游戏的结合不够紧密，无法给玩家带来强烈的代入感和情感共鸣。
- 游戏内容有限：游戏中的场景和任务相对较少，重复度较高，玩家在游戏后期可能会感到单调和乏味。此外，游戏中的敌人种类也不够丰富，战斗的多样性受到一定的限制。
- 游戏优化不足：存在一些 BUG 和卡顿现象，尤其是在多人模式下，可能会影响玩家的游戏体验。游戏的加载时间也较长，有时需要等待较长时间才能进入游戏或切换场景。
- 缺乏新手引导：游戏的战斗系统较为复杂，对于新手玩家来说，上手难度较大，而游戏中缺乏足够的新手引导，玩家可能需要花费较长时间来熟悉游戏的操作和规则。

"Absolver" is an action role-playing game with distinct advantages and disadvantages. Here is an evaluation of it:

Advantages

- Unique Combat System: The combat system of the game is uniquely designed. Players can customize their combat styles by combining different moves. There is a rich variety of moves, including attacks, dodges, feints, and counterattacks. Each move has a starting and ending stance, and players need to make reasonable combo combinations according to the actual situation, increasing the strategic and interesting nature of the combat.
- Rich Martial Arts Moves: It incorporates multiple martial arts styles, such as Kahlt method, Windfall, Forsaken, etc. Each style has its unique skills and moves, and players can also learn all the moves, allowing them to choose different combat methods according to their preferences and experience the charm of different martial arts styles.
- Smooth Action Experience: The combat actions in the game are smooth and have a strong sense of impact. Players can feel the pleasure of intense combat, making the combat process more exciting and thrilling.
- Open World Exploration: The game is set in an open world where players can freely explore and discover hidden tasks and secrets, enhancing the exploration and freedom of the game.
- Highly Customizable Characters: Players can highly customize the appearance of their characters, including clothing, equipment, and colors. They can also customize the character's move list, making each character unique and satisfying the players' personalized needs.
- Interesting Multiplayer Interaction: It supports multiplayer online cooperation and PVP battles. Players can team up with other players to complete tasks together or engage in intense battles in the PVP arena to test their combat skills, increasing the social and competitive nature of the game.

Disadvantages

- Weak Single-Player Storyline: The single-player storyline is very simple, lacking depth and complexity. The combination of the storyline and the game is not close enough, failing to bring a strong sense of immersion and emotional resonance to the players.
- Limited Game Content: The scenes and tasks in the game are relatively few, with a high degree of repetition. Players may feel monotonous and dull in the later stage of the game. In addition, the types of enemies in the game are not rich enough, and the diversity of combat is somewhat limited.
- Insufficient Game Optimization: There are some bugs and stuttering phenomena, especially in the multiplayer mode, which may affect the players' gaming experience. The loading time of the game is also relatively long, and sometimes it takes a long time to enter the game or switch scenes.
- Lack of Newbie Guidance: The combat system of the game is rather complex, and for novice players, the learning curve is relatively steep. However, there is a lack of sufficient newbie guidance in the game, and players may need to spend a long time getting familiar with the game's operation and rules.

It's been a while since I've found a combat-based game that I actually like, most of the time I just play co-op games, pve games, things like that.
Not when it comes to Absolver. Honestly, I feel like this game should get a lot more attention than it's given, the combination of strategy, quick thinking, and constant adaptation when fighting is so immersive, I lose track of time.
My only complaint would be that it's really difficult to deal with the twins bossfight, but aside from that, the game is extremely fun, it feels great teaming up with someone, trying to avoid hurting each other while fighting for a common goal, being revived by random strangers and just hanging out with them is so much fun.
I'm not much of a pvp person as mentioned before, but I'd gladly spar with someone else if they were down for it.
It's a real shame this game is so unpopular to people. I never thought I'd say that a pvp game would hold a place in my heart forever, but I certainly have more than enough room for Absolver to take it's place there.
I highly recommend this game, don't let it die just because most people don't see it.

Best game.

Reviewing every game I've played in my Steam Library. Game 30

It's an interesting game let down by obscure design.

A CoOp brawler with poor level design and certain online requirements to pass to the next level (unfortunately I didn't play long enough to have to do this).

Learning new fighting moves and the combat system is probably the most interesting part of this game.

It's fun for a short time but overall it just doesn't have enough content to stay interesting beyond an hour or two.

Fun game playing with friends or Solo, even with randoms that appear on your zone. Cool fights and different styles, the ''campaign'' it's harder but not too much, and everything it's unlockable like Dark Souls, you have to kill enemies to obtain pieces and equipment. Recommended! One of my fav!

game is good, it just lacks of players rn

Sloclap please, I beg of you, include a way to convert most of the bindings to sifu adjacent. The muscle memory is killing me. Why is run bound to R. Why.

anyways, easy 10/10, but could use a ux look-see.

Really cool concept buried under horrid response times, abysmally floaty mechanics, absolute dogass targeting mechanics, and outdated design.

Can’t even start the game. The settings are stuck on the wrong resolution with the game only filling half my screen but I can only scroll down half of the settings, it doesn’t let me move down once I get halfway down the menu of said settings, thus I can’t press apply. This same thing happens with the start page. When choosing a character before starting the game I can’t get to the bottom of the character selection menu to press start. Like before, it gets stuck and won’t move halfway down the list of options to choose. Dissapointing I can’t even start the game, especially with this game being out for so long.

Bro this game is so good. It's an old game, and it's not very long as far as pve content goes...but I have been stuck on it since I figured out the systems. I would LOVEEEEE for DD to revisit and either revamp or even better, make a sequel to this game. I need moreeeeeeee!

Fun combat and bosses, thought its a pve game for me cause nobody in australia plays this game. pls hop on if you live in aus, tell me your discord or something i need to fight someone, i want to play this game but i have no point.

Absolver contains some of best ideas for a martial arts based ARPG, bundled with the blandest, most half-assed, and uninteresting storytelling, not to say there aren't also good ideas there. I have not touched multiplayer, but i actually expect it to be decently solid, considering this dev and the good ideas. there has also been updates that expand the game that i am unfamiliar with, this is largely a review of the game from 2017, with more a first impressions of its current state.

From ive gathered on a ps4 playthrough, you are like an avatar, controlled or compelled by an elder race in a very post overgrown post apocalypse to do... something. as you traverse the world, you will find items like keys that unlock doors or move cards, a new kick, punch, whatever that starts from a specific stance and ends in another. for example a move could require you to have right foot forward, body parallel to enemy, and end with left foot forward and you facing backwards. the idea is to collect these cards around the environment and from enemies to string together your own combos unlike anyone elses.

Paired with that is the basic trichotomy of dodging, blocking, and parrying, which you will choose which you prefer at the start. anyone can do all three however. dodging is simple, bobbing and weaving to avoid attacks and drain the ops stamina, blocking to eliminate the damage, with parrying trading off timing and a directional input in return for a stun/counter period.

Graphically, its no looker, but a painterly artstyle and decent world design keep it from being too bland. This is the prototype of the artstyle found in Sifu, this games spiritual successor.

That leads me to the final point, if you REALLY like Sifu and want to see where its ideas came from, plus some that are still genuinely cool. Absolver is a no-brainer on sale, just be aware that 30 bucks is a little steep.

it a ok fighting game, no much you can do as is a short game but fun.

This game is truly one of the most fun combat games i've played in a while.

reminds me of for honor

ts is so peak

I would leave a negative review but it won't matter, sloclap does not care about this ip and they have made it very clear they will not be revisiting this game. This is a great game and it could have been something fantastic like remnant but instead they seem to have just been experimenting or "fucking around" with this game. Its a genus idea that was not perfect but could have been something much more if they did not abandon it. A very cool, intricate martial arts kind of souls like game. It felt like the start of something great. Why did they leave? Im pretty sure there was a dedicated fanbase with plenty of players. I personally really do not know other than seemingly they just did not put enough effort into balance and fixes that the game needed early on.

With the new announcement of their next game this year at the game awards it has become clear, they will not return to this ip. All this game is now is rusted gold left to rot.

I legit liked it a lot, it was like remnant from the ashes for me. A game that also could have died and been lost to obscurity. Gunfire though, they put a lot of hard work into remnant and I remember AFTER much of the game's content was released they still did a HUGE re-balance to basically every item in the game. They legit cared about that ip and now we have another good one, remnant 2. Enough about that though...

Just want to leave my respects for the game, had so much potential to be a great series. Rest in peace

the concept is cool but the execution is terrible. I also discovered an invisible glitch where everyone else is invisible except for you. yeah. try winning that fight.

Yes.

Its not a bad game or anything, its just that half of the game's content is reliant on online gameplay and you'll hardly find anyone still playing. The next level bosses for example require you to level up from pvp, and matches are never found even after 30 minutes. Im sure this was fun when it first came out but i was recommended this game pretty late and now it jus feels like a barren and abandoned game.

Interesting combat system and fighting styles, good animations of punches.

You can either turn post processing off and the game looks like it's from 95, or you can have insane motion blur that brings motion sickness and makes it look worse than if it was from 95. Needs a separate motion blur setting.

its a fun open world and I love it :)

Peak combat. Sad it doesn't get much attention and was abandoned.

It's only worth playing for the pve, since all the real players live on the other side of the planet and the ping is so high that it's just constant lag, and there's not much pve in it, so it's not really much of a game, likely why it was on sale for very cheap when i got it. It's fun for the very small game it is though. If it was pve only, i'd want to invest more time into it since i'm not a fan of pvp games. Maybe i'll just get sifu instead. Thumbs up because it is very fun and i didn't encounter any actual problems with the game itself, it's just lag and bones.

Just as good... No, better than I remember. This may be my sixth playthrough across platforms, but boy am I having fun. And I'm getting a friend into it too :) so excited to teach her how to play!!

good

I don’t have any friends to play this with, but man, Absolver still brings back so much nostalgia. Back on my old PS, it was such a blast; getting beaten up, then revived by random strangers, or even getting totally ganged up on, haha. I really miss those times. This game was so unique and fun, and I wish it could be revived or, even better, that they’d make an Absolver 2.

peak

GREAT GAME

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If you are looking for any PvE in this game there is only about 2-3 hours worth of story progression then its over hundreds of hours getting combat trail up if you don't have a friend to go through you as you will be waiting 10-15 mins for a fight in the combat trails, since there is barely anyone one playing and the people that are they are most likely fighting the just random NPCs. If you do get someone in the combat trails good luck as the people who still play it have most likely been play for years or so and they just combo you were you can't do anything. If you want to fight the bosses again you NEED to do combat trails. I do not like this game for the fact that i was expecting it to have a longer story with fights instead of run to this area kill the mini boss and boss then leave. As of the time i wrote this review it had 36 players as 24 hour peak 11/15/2024 11:54am.

Very fun if you appreciate different fighting styles and gives you the freedom of mixing up different abilities from different martial art styles!

Mainly dead but awesome as always.

best fighting game around, nothing else like it. just wish there was more players

*ss game made by pea sized brain developers, they'll never know how to make proper registration

either stop making games or just die already, nobody even plays your garbage anyways.

Very fun cool masks i was whoopin some A** in this game ngl, online was fun also

Honestly one of the best fighting games I've ever played. I bought this game for the xbox when it released and have around a hundred hours on there. The game has no players now and hasn't had any for a while but I recommend it still if you want to see a different and great take on how a fighting game plays. The game has a four directional stance that decides which moves you can use and allows you to choose each move for every attack allowing you to make a custom moveset. Each player can also choose a style of fighting that gives them the option of either parrying, dodging, absorbing, or special attacks. Because of this each player has an entirely unique way of fighting that makes for memorable duels. The customization for this game is great too and has a lot of good options to make your guy look cool. The campaign is great but only a few hours long so if you want to play multiplayer after you'll probably have to join a group or see if you can get anyone during peak hours on the weekend. If you can get the game cheap I'd recommend it for even just the campaign though it's only a few hours.

this was fire when it dropped. if you can somehow still find matches or get it with a friend or something i would recommend this

Absolver is a classic. I give it an 8/10. If you are someone who enjoys pvp then you should give it a try.

To be honest there is not much to the base game, and an average person will be able to beat the pve content in less than ten hours, and getting the 100% takes around 50 hours. That being said, Absolver has engaging pvp mechanics that are deep but not overly complicated and contributes to an overall satisfying feel. The graphics are highly stylized and that helps them to not feel too outdated.

This is a pretty good and unique fighting game but sadly , its very PVP focused in the end of the day so sadly, I refunded it.
I'm hoping they would make a game with same combat system but with more focus on PVE or introduce more indepth PVE content to this game. I heard about the Absolver plus , etc but still doesn't seem to make the PVE really worth it from what I've seen. At least not in comparison to PVP content.

Before you tell me Sifu is that. No, this game's combat system is different from Sifu.
For starters , you unlock moves by learning it from NPC enemies here and can learn it from other players , too.
It also seems to follow a show don't tell sort of lore unlike Sifu which has a more direct lore. I happen to like the former more than the latter since it gets your mind and imagination going in building up the story.

The 102 minutes I played of this game on PC before I refunded , I did immensely enjoy the gameplay , animations and art style. The controls were also simple enough to grasp and smooth but the skill ceiling seemed very high and indepth.
However, upon checking more about the PVE and realizing the game boils down to PVP , I realized its not really for me sadly specially that steam charts say that around 40 players only play this game nowadays so odds are I'm going to end up having to play against loyalist elites who know every nook and cranny in the game leaving less chances for casual PVP to me. I don't like sweating in PVP not in fighting games at least but if you're into PVP , you might enjoy it here. The community seemed to be cool and welcoming as well but again seem to be very PVP focused.