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  1. January 26, 2024 - Day 391 - NewPlay Review
    Total NewPlays: 427

    Game: Elderborn

    Platform: Steam
    Released: Jan 31, 2020
    Installed: Jan 26, 2024
    Unplayed: 0d
    Playtime: 22m

    Rating: 1 - Nope

    Elderborn is a first-person Soulslike slasher melee-combat game.

    The game opens with a bombastic monologue from the lead character (at least you can choose their gender), who lays out a brief history of how you got to the point of entering the locked-down city of doom, but there was nothing unique about it that grabbed me. It was just... filler.

    (Sidenote: If your game supports 3440x1440 ultrawide, you need a FOV slider. Playing a first-person game through a fisheye lens is not fun.)

    The graphics and design feel average. It feels like they forgot the narrative part of a Soulslike that gives you a reason to press on.

    Ultimately, the biggest problem with the game is that it's just boring. Run to room. Cut down undead. Run to next room that looks like previous room. Cut down undead. Rinse and repeat.

    Elderborn is:

    1: Nope

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