Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance

Platforms

• PC

  Jun 22, 2021

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  5.3

  playscore

  5.2

  36 Critics

  4.8

  8.38K Players
• PlayStation 5

  Jun 22, 2021

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  6.6

  playscore

  5.7

  18 Critics

  7.2

  2.64K Players
• Xbox Series X|S

  Jun 22, 2021

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  5.7

  playscore

  5.4

  13 Critics

  4.8

  4.94K Players
• PlayStation 4

  Jun 22, 2021

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  6.3

  playscore

  5.0

  11 Critics

  7.9

  1.48K Players
• Xbox One

  Jun 22, 2021

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  5.0

  playscore

  4.8

  12 Critics

  4.6

  4.70K Players

69 critic reviews · 6 community reviews across all platforms

Critic Reviews

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  SKNR.net

  2.0

  The game is a blundering mess that doesn’t seem to be able to gain its footing. Although it’s pretty, we all know looks don’t count for everything.

  Reviewed on PC

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  Sirus Gaming

  5.0

  Overall, Dark Alliance is a fun game for quick 30-minute sessions with friends. However, I’d personally want it to stay in development for longer so developers would fix some of the game’s issues. It’s highly detailed and beautiful, but that’s the only best quality I could say about it right now.

  Reviewed on PS4

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  3rd-strike.com

  5.0

  Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance could have been a massive hit, even with its somewhat shallow RPG components. The overall environments and story lend themselves perfectly for an epic dungeon crawler and even the fairly simplistic core gameplay loop has its merits. Sadly, this could-be amusing D&D experience is completely held back by the hordes of bugs present in the game, making you lose progress, experience random crashes, or just die even though the enemy was targetting another player.

  Reviewed on PC

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  Way Too Many Games

  3.0

  As a whole, I can’t recommend Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance. If you’re attempting to play it on a last gen system, it’s almost impossible to get through. Even if you’re playing it on a current gen system, it’s still not worth your time. It’s simply not fun. It’s so bland and generic that it’s a slog to get through. There are many other co-op action adventure games out there are much more entertaining, such as Diablo III or Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance. And the latter isn’t even that good to begin with.

  Reviewed on XB1

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  RPGFan

  7.2

  Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance is a game with great promise but poor-to-mediocre performance, depending on your affinity for action-oriented loot hunting and patience for AI and other technical shortcomings that should have been nipped in beta. But with promise comes optimism; Tuque Games has a robust DLC and expansion roadmap planned, so its continued investment in the game could lead to patches ameliorating my gripes.

  Reviewed on PS5

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  Hey Poor Player

  4.0

  I’m glad a game like Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance is on Game Pass because that’s the perfect way to get a group of friends playing together. I just wish that once they gathered, they had something better to play. Unfortunately, despite some parts of the game looking and sounding nice, there’s little else to recommend it. With awful AI, weightless combat, an unengaging story, and loot that feels inessential, the entire game is a slog. The biggest fans of Dungeons & Dragons may find a bit of fun with friends, but they deserve better than this.

  Reviewed on XB1

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  Game Informer

  6.0

  With multiple collectible gear sets, magic-infused combat, and characters with distinct powers, building up a fun rhythm of play is possible, especially if you choose to tackle the entire game with a consistent group of players who stay in pace with each other’s progress. But even then, the cracks in the core experience are apparent. I wanted to have fun with Dark Alliance’s breezy adventures through a familiar fantasy world, but too many elements left me disappointed, and even the flashing weapons wielded by the Companions of the Hall weren’t enough to blind me to what was missing.

  Reviewed on Series X|S
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  ZTGD

  7.0

  Dark Alliance is not a perfectly executed game but the fun to be had when everything works is worth enduring the little issues. It delivers a fun D&D adventure with some epic combat moments. Even with the issues that I experienced I think this is a solid game and with a bit more polish via patches will fit quite nicely among its dungeon crawler brethren.

  Reviewed on Series X|S

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  Push Square

  7.0

  Dark Alliance is a game that seems destined to be forgotten, which is a shame because there's a lot of old-school PS2-style fun to be had. Once split screen is patched in we can see ourselves going back to it regularly in order to relive those couch co-op days of yore, though the game is enjoyable solo as well if you choose your difficulty setting wisely.

  Reviewed on PS5

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  Destructoid

  4.0

  Okay, I screwed that one up. Its other strengths are… Let me put it gently: there is some promise to its multiplayer. If its control issues are mopped up and the enemies recover from their collective hangovers, Dark Alliance could be reasonable fun with friends. For a little while. I guess.

  Reviewed on PC

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