Last Epoch

I've played Torchlight 2, Grim Dawn, Diablo I II III IV, which i've played well over 1000+ hours on these games. i love this game the skill-skill trees are amazing i love the customablity. The item forging mechanic has a small learning curve but basically you can turn a white into an item that you want for your character [rare item]. I enjoy the story enough that it i want to know more [i play Hard Core]. i would give this game a definite recommend.

Scratches my ARPG itch when I need it. Game mechanics like forging or timelines can feel a bit overwhelming at first but things fall into place and start making sense as you play. In-game documentation and stats are plentiful; only had to check online forums a few times to clarify a few things about my build.

Few other positives worth mentioning:
- Cash shop is out of the way and is cosmetic <3
- Offline mode: This is often overlooked so thanks
- Legacy mode: I play infrequently and don't really participate in seasons. So I like I can continue playing my regular character.

Some recommendations I would make:
- Once you get into the End of Time gameplay quest markers get a bit confusing. A marker is shown in both the End of Time map and the era where I presume the level takes place. But if you look at the era, there isn't any marker on the map. Example: I'm doing the Monolith: Reign of Dragons quest and have a blue quest marker on both Ancient Era (-6020BE) and End of Time. But there's only an actual marker in the End of Time map.
-Dungeon's and Arena's were something I stumbled into as I found keys. There weren't really any introductions which made getting into them and understanding what's going on a bit confusing initially. Maybe I overlooked some dialog but some early game low level (lvl 5-10) dungeons might be a good way to introduce players to the concept?

if you are looking for a game that is more understandable than poe -more content than diablo 4 -more variety
-more freedom -has a great community to help you learn the ropes -also has a guide to show you every slice of info this game has to offer
i have been not likeing any games lately but this one for a fact is worth every penny and i am excited and proud to say that i look forward to future content updates and seasons i will definately play this way more than any other game on my steam library

Easily the best ARPG I've ever played. I've tried Diablo, it's now become a cesspool because of the company the devs work for. I've played Torchlight 2, it's good, but not nearly as engaging. I've tried PoE, and it's way too intimidating to try and approach. Last Epoch is deep, but not intimidating and fun to learn. Loot is simple, doesn't suffer from severe power creep, and the dungeons are interesting puzzles to solve instead of mindless spam fests. The Classes themselves are your classic archetypes, but they pack so much nuance and buildcrafting potential in each one that you can make your perfect power fantasy come true. I guess my only real criticism is that all the stories you engage yourself in, you never actually conclude with. I would have loved to help save my original timeline, or defeat the leader of the undead empire. And we'll probably never stop the embodiment of entropy and chaos himself, but I'd like to at least try. Even the smallest amount of good we do matters. Surely even Oblivion itself can respect that sort of determination.

My personal favorite ARPG. It balances its endgame and crafting systems that allows it to be accessible by anyone. Combat is great, builds are amazing, and it feels like you are truly progressing when you are going through endgame. Not really any sweating, just having a good time going through Monoliths and blasting mobs.

Great game, it's a lot of fun, a lot of fun.

The specializations of the heroes are actually varied and fun, unlike Lost Ark or all the other cheap Diablo copies where you just have to smash buttons.

You can create your hero however you want, be it a braindead burst build, a complete damage over time build or as a beastmaster (you can even control your pets separately wtf?).

Absolutely recommend it from me.

The customization and synergy with builds go beyond any other ARPG I've played. The combat feels punchy and satisfying, so it's always fun to play. It's an excellent game and keeps getting better.

I think you would have a much better time if you wait a while before buying.

Let it bake in the oven a bit longer, the game feels like it took effort away from development to find room for monetization. Asking $35 and then having multiple supporter packs feels very greed to me personally, namely when 1.0 launch is behind us and the game could still use some ironing out.

You'll probably have a good time if you bought it now, but I think you would have a better time letting it age a bit more.

After more than 300 hours played, I can tell you that if this company continues to develop more content to this game, it can become one of the greatest of it's genre. Great mechanics and there's always a new way to create a new build. Keep it going...

Fun enough to play through but medicore in all the aspects that I don't know who is the target. Story is bad - I'd rather play diablo 2 again. Gameplay loop and lots of gameplay elements seems shallow - I'd play poe instead.
This game is not bad, it can be fun for a while but I'm leaving negative review because I find it waste of time and money given how competition looks like.

there's always been the argument in PoE: must the crafting system actually be this punishing and opaque, so impossible to learn? i remember especially during grove, but also with things like aisling laffrey, it was possible to get insanely good items very, very early on, with just a few chaos orbs as startup fund. but explaining these mechanisms to a new player was literally so difficult that new players were mostly better off farming currency and then paying 10x markups on the market to someone who already knew how to craft.

and this seems... bad? from a naive perspective?

poe has always had a strong rejoinder; that the depth rewards player research and commitment and creates a dedicated community. and they're definitely right about that. when learning how to synergize between all the different crafting systems gives such a large benefit, it feels really good

but still, there was a sizeable group wondering if poe would REALLY be that much worse if the crafting system's learning curve were even just a little bit less imbalanced

last epoch is the proof, I think, that actually it's pretty good! in last epoch, players who don't want to learn anything at all, and just press the 'upgrade' button on their favorite affixes whenever the game doesn't mysteriously tell them they can't do it for some reason, will get about half of the benefit of the crafting system. Players who spend thirty seconds playing around with it will get like 80% of the benefit. in other words, you don't need to get a graduate degree in crafting in order to see enormous value from it

the skill tree and passive trees work the same way, compared to PoE. does it REALLY need to be that complicated and hard to plan out? Last Epoch proves that, no it doesn't. You can be simpler than PoE without having to be Diablo 4.

this isn't to say PoE should tone down their complexity. They are playing to their advantage. But playing LE shattered a bunch of illusions I had about the link between complexity and depth in an ARPG. In LE, if you itemize intelligently, stack stats that aren't wildly inappropriate for your build, and look for skill tree nodes that synergize with each other (for instance, by doubling down on a single damage type)... you can make pretty much any build work. There aren't any noobtraps or wrong choices and you DEFINITELY don't need a plan. And it almost seems like they show off how easy it is to respec, compared to PoE.

When I was a PoE purist, I did not believe this was possible to achieve in a game without sacrificing so much depth that you might as well just make Diablo 3... I was wrong. Last Epoch is a fantastic ARPG that genuinely rewards player experimentation in a way that feels really satisfying, and I love picking a random skill, designing a build around it, and finding out that it works just fine. In other ARPGs, doing this would be a 'challenge run' type situation, but in Last Epoch I have yet to find a single skill, even ones overlooked by the community, that can't be built up to be at least 90% as good as so-called 'meta' builds. This is genuinely really impressive!

I wanted to love this game. The classes were had fun skills, it felt rewarding and the crafting system was nice. But here's the issue. I like to build my class, try things, be original. This game does a very poor job at describing skills, sometimes even giving you information that is completely misleading. For example, I built a marksman rogue and got to choosing my third fourth rank up ability. Since one of the previous abilities that I levelled threw poison flasks, and an ability that I was going to choose summoned shadows that where specifically described to throw these flasks. When I got to using it however, they did not. I had to go deep forum digging to understand that I had to specialise in a different class for them to do the action, regardless of the skill descriptor not mentioning anything of the sort. To compound on the issue, removing that specialisation made me lose loads of XP in those skills.

Another issue I encountered was that one of my other characters got transferred in "Legacy" mode, whatever that represents. Wouldn't be a problem if half the gear equipped on him suddenly had nothing to do with his build, and some of the important items were no longer equipable because I'd lost all my Bazaar faction levels. The character can't even clear stages of his own level anymore. Fine, lets got farm some new gear.

As if to break the camel's back, one of the character's keystone skills that automatically activates once the cooldown finishes no longer works. (The skill tree still describes that it automatically actives...). Anyway, if the devs don't like this game enough to make sure it works, and that we don't lose everything we put into it, why would I bother playing. Honestly, I just wish I could get my money back now.

Anyways, if anyone read this, thanks for listening to my rant.

The mechanics of this game are really well thought out and make for a good diablo style game. The problem though is that the storyline of the game is abysmal. You can tell that all of the resources put into this game were to make it as mechanically tight as possible, and the story was a complete afterthought. Sure, some people who like diablo are only there for the gameplay loop, and those people will probably enjoy this game. I found the storytelling to be so lacking I will be unlikely to finish it.

I bought this game around official 1.0 release and played mostly then and later on 1.1 new cycle. Honestly one of my favourites games within this genre simply because of the amount of builds you can try. New content is added with each cycle so I believe the game will simply go into better direction with each patch

It was not what I expected after all these years and did not succeed to captivate me. Although skill system is quite attracting, giving us an impression of a lot of character variety, I did find the classes in themselves quite limiting when it comes to the limitation in usable spells. I wish we had a neutral bottom but this is more on the "would not recommend" side of the things, unfortunately.

Great game with huge potential. Endgame needs to be fleshed out more (and devs are working on it already) and campaign finished. Once it is there, I will just alternate between this and PoE and say goodbye to sleep :)

Absolutely stunning. Great story, amazing gameplay.

Well this one is a little bit hard to evaluate.

From the one hand we have a really good middle-ground arpg between diablo and poe with interesting progression and engaging craft system where you both have to find a good base and finish it yourself. You can easily make a close to perfect gear yourself and it feels incredibly good. Factions allow you to choose between trading or more loot so it doesn't force you to engage with trade if you don't like it unlike poe.

From the other hand the game is painfully slow comparing with poe. No zoomy gameplay + they force you to play clunky builds where you have to press extra buttons just to have you damage. Imho they should make more ways to automate such things.

But overall i like the direction it's going to. Devs are pretty chill and trying their best to make a good product so a thumb up from me.

The performance is really atrocious if you are playing endgame.
It plays great until that point but i was really interested in endgame stuff and in part it is just not playable.

Better than d4, less complicated than PoE. Solid classes that feel fun and look good. I recommend.

- best skill system of any ARPG (every skill has its own tree!)
- best crafting of any ARPG
- most distinctive class system of any ARPG (with the dual classing of Grim Dawn a close second)
- most game-changing uniques of any ARPG

If you’re on the fence, buy it. Hundreds of hours later and I’m still trying new things.

ARPG devs, take note: this is how it’s done!

You know what, it runs better than diablo 4, more accessible than POE. Not a bad game at all. If they can keep adding and building on the game it will become one of the staple diablo esque games.

+ It is no where near as expensive as D4.

This game is a sad bunch of a few cool ideas and mechanics buried under the pile of mediocrity.
The overall graphics are bearable but the animations are too clunky, glitchy and cheap - sometimes enemies move considerable distances or die without any.
Map and location persistence - the basic features of an ARPG are not even in the game. You can participate is some event, talk with an NPC, finish associated quest, leave the area, return to it and see event repeating, bosses alive again and NPC saying the same lines.
The voice acting is horrendous. The soundtrack is almost nonexistent. The story is noncoherent. The art style is a mixed bag. The AI translations are terrible.
And don't get me started about the loot. Gearing up in this game is a garbage fest and a hobo simulator. Hundreds of useless items are endlessly barraging your screen.
And there is no enjoyment in digging through this trash. Set up a loot filter and you will see some items once in a dozen drops. But set up a precise filter with only the properties you need and you will never see a single item on the ground ever again. Why even make such sophisticated filter system for the garbage rain instead of making a normal gear progression? Forge is okay I guess but it is not the remedy.
Bugs from ten months ago like the druid visually stuck forever in transformed state of an insect or a bear, invisible weapons in hands, overlay map opacity setting doesn't work etc are still in the game.
Not very enjoyable experience overall.

Best ARPG hands-down. I play a new build every 2 or 3 months and enjoy the new content whenever I come back. Once I'm satisfied with my build (or get bored), I drop the game, play other games, and then eventually come back to this one. The cycle is glorious.

good game but need more end game content and more frequent updates esp graphical ones. With POE2 in the fray, if this game needs to be in the players radar, they better buckle up and deliver content more frequently. However with the small studio size they have, it is a pretty good game so far.

Meh; this game could have been amazing but honestly having seasonal resets really ruins any sense of progression for me.

Both my pimped out lvl 100 toons are now worthless; I'll never understand this seasonal style of gameplay.

This game was not released in a reliable state and any hope that it would be fixed after patching was unrealized. Launching and attempting to connect is routinely unsuccessful and blocked by the frequent LE-52 server error. These issues have persisted since launch and stubbornly defy the basic “tech support” suggestions, which are hilariously to restart, close the game, and restart Steam. It’s a shame there is not a cartridge to blow into.

On the rare occasion one can connect to the server and sneak by the LE-52 nemesis, temper your excitement as your online characters have likely disappeared.

I have been unable to play this game consistently for sometime and have wasted too much time trying.

Aside from these all too common problems, when the moon is its full cycle and you are lucky enough to experience the gameplay, you will find its similar to other action RPGs. The skill tree levels and build variety are Last Epoch’s strengths, though the game is further brought down by being too linear and would have benefitted from old-school Diablo randomness.

Pass on this. Save yourself the trouble and money.

decent ARPG with deep itemization and good endgame; but has awful animations and character flow

- endgame content is great, itemization is very fun
- crafting is one of the best if not the best in genre
- feels sluggish to play, almost like you're slowed by 50% all the time
- world and art direction in general feels cheap, feels like you're playing 2010 game

would still recommend though, hoping that developers will only continue to make this game better

It’s a lovely experience filled with constant action and a beautiful world. The campaign is relatively short, something I personally don’t mind because I’m more of an endgame type of ARPG player, but it’s filled with lively creatures, scenes, vegetation, etc. It’s quite immersive, especially once you get to the later parts of the game and start exploring your custom timelines, and I really love the deterministic crafting and farming systems. It leaves enough room for rng, but at the same time allows a player to have control over what they’re getting.

Overall, I’d confidently give the game 9/10. with 1 point deducted for bugs that happen sometimes, a bit short engame loop, and an unfinished campaign.

almost a perfect top down rpg. for me, the biggest draw to this game is the amount builds you can create and play with. but the way you respec those skills are is too punishing. I understand the grind but there is way too many different builds to lose points for skills.

Time traveling YES Customizable character progression YES Customizable spells YES Hammerdin YES. Do I recommend the game? YES

I’m here to experiment with my own builds and Last Epoch has been the game that offered that in the best way possible so far. No meta restrictions, no suboptimal builds and no need to learn dozens of pages worth of knowledge to be able to try creating your own build that is destined to fail because, well, for some reason 500 hours in the game don’t give you enough experience to enjoy it your way. If you want to make and experiment with your own characters and builds, this game is one of the best on the market.

Been wanting a game that scratches the itch like Diablo 3 did and that i used to get from Path of Exile that diablo 4 absolutely did not deliver on and i fell upon this game and damn does it scratch that itch really well.

while the game is really fun as it is, it feels disingenuous to release a game in "1.0" with an INCOMPLETE STORY. while yes most people dont play arpgs for the story the fact of the matter is 1.0 is meant to say this is "the game as we imagined it" (aside from future plans for dlc and such). to release the game like this just feels like there trying to hype up the game more instead of actually releasing there product, this is aside the absolutely terrible endgame grind. grinding for actual hours in the most repetitive way, run around a randomly generated area with randomly generated enemies until the game tells you where the randomly generated elite enemy is that you need to kill so you can wait through 2 or 3 loading screens just to do it again with only a minuscule chance of getting anything even remotely good. also the framerate at endgame makes the game almost unplayable, i have a 3070 and even on the lowest setting i will drop to single digit frames at times, there is no excuse for this

This is the kind of game where you can sink hundreds of hours and still find something new. I played it on my son's account for over 200 hours and not one character was the same as the previous one. Even more importantly, I feel like there's always something new to do and a new goal to achieve. One of the best games I've bought, for my son first when 1.0 released and now for myself so we can play together.

A very good game if you are looking for new top down ARPG akin to Diablo or POE. Decent story with and experience and challenge that is expected of the genre.

Great design and skill progression. Overall super fun and there is quite a bit to do and try. At a certain point, you do start to lose interest like with most of the loot based hack and slash games but it's definitely worth the price and is well done.

This is a mid-point between Diablo 4 and Path of Exile. Overall quality and enjoyment is wonderful. Very Excited to see this game grow with time. Main draw for me is this game is very clear and has every guide you would need IN GAME. When you play this you stay in the game and don't need anything external; even your loot filter is very easy to make on your own.

I've played a lot of ARPGs, but Last Epoch has quickly become my favorite. This game has everything I loved about classic arpgs, but with a fresh twist and a level of depth that keeps me coming back. The skill customization is truly outstanding. You can shape your character's abilities in ways that feel unique, allowing for a lot of experimentation and personalization.

Progression is smooth, and you’re constantly feels rewarding Unlike other games where endgame content can feel like a grind and little else. Last Epoch's Monolith system is actually engaging and keeps you motivated to keep pushing forward. Another big plus for me is the loot system. In Last Epoch, loot feels meaningful. You're not just bombarded with tons of items; instead, you actually get excited to see what each drop can do to your build.

Overall, Last Epoch has nailed the ARPG experience, and honestly, it's now my top pick over Diablo and Path of Exile. If you're looking for a game that keeps getting better with each update, I really encourage you to give Last Epoch a try.

Love this game. Simple to play and all the custom options make it specific to your needs. Great for online co-op adventures.

Build variety is great. As someone who loves making my own builds and exploring the game from the inside out in this sense, Last Epoch was a pleasant surprise. I'm currently running a Warlock focused on DoTs and it's working great.

Long time arpg player, thousands of hours on d2/d3, some poe/torchlight/d4/etc. Last epoch is probably my favorite of the bunch with 1500 hours since launch somehow. I fell in love when my first character could just pick different skills and turn them all into totems! Then i fell in love with the crafting and itemization.

As a hc player, it takes some adjusting to get used to being one shot from bosses and other random mobs, but you die and you learn. The game isn't perfect, but its got a really great foundation to build off.

Give this game a shot if you like the genre.

Damn thing is trying to force me to go online, despite choosing offline mode from the start.
Why should a game like this require it?? And its persistent - ask it to remember, check the setting for fully offline - and it will ignore it and launch in online mode and ask for an account... only setting ask each time seems to work. Might be a bug, but its patch 1.1

That said, the game is basic - its still fun, but very basic and from running the latest iteration of Diablo, not in the same league by far. Mobs respawn so often its annoying, if not for the XP - open a gate, sell the crap you found and go back - and look and behold - all mobs have mysteriously respawned. If from starting the game from fresh, ok - good and usefull. Going through a portal, sell and spend literally seconds and going back only to find everything is back, fully healed and ready to go - is just breaking the illusion and making a mockery of it.

Like the ability to respect as you see fit - don't like the cost of dropping 'training' along the way.
Especially running through the game for the first couple of times - ruins an otherwise nice touch of try, experience, adapt and retry - which I honestly though it was. Don't miss Diablo on this part either - worse there after all.

Item drops are completely useless - not sure why there are vendors, since they have absolutely nothing of value - so far at least. Drops are either for your class, another char or waste of time to pick up. So why drop them???

-Balance in this game is so bad
-Melee is bad
-you'll reach a point where every class plays the same 2-3 builds in an ARPG game and it will bore you
-Slow updates

Really wish I could recommend this game, I really do. You can see how much thought and care went it to it all, by people that actually like ARPGs and wanted to build something to last.

However, it asks WAAAAY too much of you for the end game. ENDLESS farming for drops, then you have to get lucky with combining the drops to get the stats you need. Its maddening, its monotonous, and gets downright boring when all there is to do is endlessly farm monoliths.

Maybe things will change as they continue to apply polish, I'll check back in a year or so but I don't have much hope for it. The game is already down under 2k players on average and dying a slow death.

Will say though, its still 100x better than Diablo 4.

This is a really good Diablo.

More complex than the actual Diablo series, but unlike Path of Exile you don't need a doctorate in videogaming to make a solid build.

If you're an ARPG fan, this is a no brainer.

Fix your servers, getting dc'd every 30 minutes makes for an un-enjoyable experience.

Until they fix the memory leaks after 4+ mono runs to then having to shutdown your pc for 5 mins to run another 4+ and repeat due to very i mean VERY bad fps to where you die non stop. This game is clearly still in EA with so many bugs not counting the stupid boss resis bubble every 5 seconds so annoying.. until they fix those two things this will stay don't recommend sorry.

Fun open world hack and slash with a basic story to keep the action moving.

Not sure what happened. Not that I have a lot of playtime, obviously, but I have played on Steam Deck originally which I'm positive was verified at the time. I am now trying to play on my gaming PC and it takes forever to start and takes forever to load a game. I left it running after starting a new character to wash clothes, etc and it still hadn't loaded. I have it installed on a solid state drive with an Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti.. Used to run fine when it first came out. It is a good game, but not in it's current state