Pyre

One of my favorite video game stories with great gameplay. The soundtrack is also AMAZING.

It's a shame that this was supposedly Supergiant's least successful game, because I truly believe that they have just progressively made better games every time. I loved Transistor (Bastion was good too), but there's something very special about this game. The way the story and mechanics intermingle is incredibly interesting, and I think the best compliment I can give to the characters is how one of my complaints is not having enough time with them. I can see a larger game where after each rite you get the chance to speak to any/all of your companions about recent events, and how you treat them having larger affects in them both mechanically and narratively. That said, I can understand how that could have made the game needlessly bloated and I commend them for trying to keep more focus. Though I will also complaint that I don't think the player is mentioned enough in the endings. Some characters will mention you, others not even if you spent more time with them, did their personal "quest", etc. so to a certain degree, it can also feel like Supergiant perhaps bit a bit more than they could fully chew. Even then, the game lends itself to being incredibly replayable because of how the story unfold. Although it is wholly linear, it's built of many blocks that can change based on (mostly) your skill as a player (and less so but also the few choices you make). This allows for a game that continues and still ends at the same place even if you lose every single match, with your story obviously reflecting that difference. I think many might have the same struggle I had of wanting to play well because that's obviously how we are conditiones in pretty much every game. Therefore, you may chose to play the game on reduced difficulty to see the "best version" of the ending, and I think you absolutely can do that but if you do I would suggest to do that only as a first playthrough and to then replay on higher difficulty and simply live with the failures. I plan to replay this I'm at the highest difficulty so that which characters I am able to free/save/ascend and how my overarching end game goes is entirely based on my personal skill and the will of the Eight Scribes. I will lastly leave with my one other complaint, that potentially the game wasn't fully optimized for controllers. I played on Steam Deck and it ran great. There is small text to deal with, but you can go through the game without reading it. But when playing at higher difficulty the adversary teams can much more quickly implement a play and you would think that the LR Bumpers would allow you to more easily switch characters on a dime knowing exactly who it would go to, but for some reason hitting RB will sometimes pick the Left character and the LB will pick the right. So you can lose precious seconds from the game not reacting to your button presses the way you intended. All that said, with really only those three complaints from this review being what I disliked, I think this is an incredible game that people who have played Hades and are going back to Supergiant's catalogue should absolutely not miss. Until Hades 2, Supergiant never made any sequels and I am unsure if I would want a sequel to this game or if instead I would love a "remaster" that is further expanded so that the few things that feel missing could be implemented and it could just be further fleshed out.

It's good! I like it. Supergiant Games is mostly known for their other work, but I think this is genuinely the most interesting part of their gameography.

Big fan of Supergiant Games, but this fell flat for me. Very cool visuals and concept, but the world building had me lost. The game consists of 90% dialogue and 10% actual game play. I couldn't really find myself caring about any of the characters or the story in general. Game play can be difficult, but once you catch on to the mechanics, it gets easier. I'd say the best thing about the game is that when you turn the difficulty up, it becomes quite the challenge. Probably won't revisit this game anytime soon, but with this game completed...I can move on to Hades (finally)! Rating: 4/10

AWESOME GAME AWESOME SOUNDTRACK this game is as good if not better than Hades and I loved Hades.

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jogo bunitu demais, a melhor forma de introduzir roguelike na sua vida, o antecessor de hades consegue entregar batalhas fodas, musicas boas e um enredo foda! o único problema é nao ter tradução pt br...

Thank you, Supergiant Games, and to you, Darren Korb. I've listened to Pyre Soundtrack so much I reached 0.005% of Darren's listeners. The music has saved me many times, and the game made me think and smile many a time again.