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4 games by Piranha Bytes reviewed here.
4 reviews
Widely regarded as one of the finest CRPGs ever made — the game reviewers cite as the benchmark even when discussing other Piranha Bytes titles — now facing a genuine, independently verified controversy: a January 2025 price hike that doubled the cost of the entire Gothic catalogue on Steam, timed near the Gothic 1 Remake's announcement, which drove the sharpest spike in negative reviews this classic has ever seen.
8.5 / 10
Widely regarded as Piranha Bytes' finest work and the true spiritual successor to their acclaimed Gothic series, Risen carries a remarkably stable, decade-spanning structural complaint — a genuinely strong first half giving way to a repetitive, fetch-quest-heavy final chapter that reviewers writing in 2016 and 2026 alike describe almost identically.
7.5 / 10
Piranha Bytes' post-apocalyptic science-fantasy RPG traded Gothic's medieval valleys for a comet-scarred planet of jetpacks and magic swords, and kept every bit of the studio's famous jank along with it -- nine years on, it is a genuinely divisive game whose fans use the word "uncut gem" without irony and whose detractors mean "worst game ever made" almost as literally.
7 / 10
Reviewed the same day as its predecessor, this sequel trades Risen's dark, mystic fantasy world for a colonial pirate setting that a meaningful share of longtime fans describe as a worse, more streamlined direction — layered on top of a distinct, still-active crash bug tied to teleporting between towns, corroborated as recently as April 2026.
6.5 / 10
