ELEX

Platforms

• PC

  Oct 17, 2017

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  6.8

  playscore

  6.3

  22 Critics

  7.3

  9.73K Players
• PlayStation 4

  Oct 17, 2017

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  6.4

  playscore

  5.5

  14 Critics

  7.5

  4.39K Players
• Xbox One

  Oct 17, 2017

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  6.8

  playscore

  6.4

  10 Critics

  7.1

  1.11K Players

35 critic reviews · 5 community reviews across all platforms

Critic Reviews

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  RPG Site

  7.0

  Elex is a hard game to genuinely recommend, it does so many important things to only an acceptable level or worse. It's a game that's carried based on the strength of its quest design, or more pessimistically, one that's let down by a general lack of polish and uninteresting combat. It feels like a nice refreshing counterpart to some modern rpgs that treat their quest lists more like chores, but as a complete package, it falls disappointingly short.

  Reviewed on PC, PS4, XB1

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  PC Gamer

  6.4

  Elex’s flaws don’t really come from the bugs, but from how it falls short of its ambitions. Its world and visual design are top tier, and it’s a game with a wide scope and an eclectic vision—it's fun for the forgiving—but that ultimately leaves much of the game underdeveloped.

  Reviewed on PC

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  Game Zone

  6.5

  Piranha Bytes has created a legitimately interesting world to explore filled with choices and consequences, though it’s technical limitations and budget nature are a hard sell for any gamer who isn’t a fan of the Gothic and/or Risen games.

  Reviewed on PC

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  Push Square

  4.0

  Whether it's that unmistakable Euro-jank charm or its commitment to providing a surprisingly robust role-playing experience, ELEX definitely has something going for it – it's just that most players will likely never make it far enough to find out what that something is. Piranha Byte's latest has ambition, but barely any of it is realised.

  Reviewed on PS4

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  Xbox Tavern

  7.4

  If only the controls were more responsive and it ran at more than 20fps for the most part and I would be completely enamoured with this game. Elex has some really great ideas, some excellent music and some real potential to be a rival to the big hitters. Unfortunately, it’s let down by an overly complicated skill system, poor controls and performance, and just a sense that a great game is trying to show but it can’t quite get there. I really hope that THQ Nordic allow the team to take this base and build off of it, so that next time they can hit it out of the park.

  Reviewed on XB1

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  Hardcore Gamer

  6.0

  Elex is an unfortunate case where it appears to be too ambitious for its own good. It has a lot of great ideas, enough where it became a title of great interest when it was first announced, but the final result is something that shows promise of greatness without actually being great. The different factions are cool and the jetpack feature is a fun way to travel around, but this is offset by the different societies not meshing well together in the same world and janky combat mechanics.

  Reviewed on PS4

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  Cultured Vultures

  6.0

  Bizarre and brazen but totally sincere, ELEX is a rough diamond that offers everything a hardcore RPG fan could want in a very rough and ready package. For everyone else, however, it's a total oddity and one that's hard to unequivocally recommend.

  Reviewed on PS4

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  GameSpot

  4.0

  Elex's world is no doubt enticing, but the good moments are heavily dispersed among some rough technical problems and odd designs that only serve to frustrate. The game offers an incredibly designed world and the basis of a compelling RPG that disappointingly fails to live up to its potential in almost every way. For a game that relies heavily on its combat for progression, it feels overwhelmingly geared against you, and with the added technical issues and lack of a compelling story to tell, Elex takes the wind out of its own sails at nearly every turn.

  Reviewed on PS4

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  ZTGD

  6.5

  Elex is a game that I like on a core and fundamental level. The exploration is fantastic and the world they created is this place that truly feels like a mixture of so many other games before it, yet it still stands out on its own to do its own thing. The mythology is interesting here but I tended not to care for any characters I met or myself, I had fun with the gameplay mechanics and world.

  Reviewed on XB1

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  IGN

  4.9

  The best-case scenario for ELEX is that it’ll be worth picking up on sale a year or two from now after it’s been heavily patched to fix its rampant bugs and infuriating balance problems. It has enough good ideas that one day it might be talked about as one of those hidden RPG gems that people play and wonder why it wasn’t successful at launch. But the frothy mix of joy and frustration that ELEX presents today skews too heavily toward the latter. I wish it well, but I don’t think I’ll be calling it up for a second date.

  Reviewed on PC

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