Babylon’s Fall

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This is the worst game Platinum Games has ever made. Babylon’s Fall is a cheap attempt to make money – an ugly, boring, tired experience that isn’t worth a minute of your time.

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This is the worst game Platinum Games has ever made. Babylon's Fall is a cheap attempt to make money - an ugly, boring, tired experience that isn't worth a minute of your time.

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3/10

Mick Fraser (God is a Geek)

That Babylon’s Fall comes from Platinum Games is perhaps the biggest surprise here. A banal, uninspired hack ‘n’ slasher with no imagination or personality.

March 4, 2022 |

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An Exercise in apathy, neither solid nor liquid. Not exactly bad, but not very good either. Just a bit ‘meh,’ really.

March 4, 2022 |

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5/10

Chris Carter (Destructoid)

3/10

Aran Suddi (TheSixthAxis)

Babylon’s Fall is just dull, repetitive and ultimately forgettable. The combat at the game’s core so simple and lacking in challenge, especially if you have a full team. We all know that PlatinumGames are capable of games so much more than this, and Square Enix should probably step back from their live service efforts, because they simply haven’t cracked it.

March 7, 2022 |

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Mick Fraser (God is a Geek)

3/10 - (Read Review)

That Babylon’s Fall comes from Platinum Games is perhaps the biggest surprise here. A banal, uninspired hack ‘n’ slasher with no imagination or personality.

Chris Carter (Destructoid)

5/10 - (Read Review)

An Exercise in apathy, neither solid nor liquid. Not exactly bad, but not very good either. Just a bit ‘meh,’ really.

Aran Suddi (TheSixthAxis)

3/10 - (Read Review)

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Outlet	Author	Score	Date	Quote	Read
33bits	Euyen Esquefa Pons	55 / 100	03-09-2022	Unfortunately, the attempt by Square Enix and Platinum Games to enter the world of Games as a Service with BABYLON’S FALL has ended in a mediocre game that will pass with more pain than glory in the world.	Read review
Atomix	Rodolfo León	60 / 100	03-08-2022	Once again, Square Enix fails miserably with another one of these infamous games as a service. Babylon’s Fall feels like it was just made as a quick and easy cashgrab, and even PlatinumGames’s incredible talent isn’t enought to save this trainwreck.	Read review
Attack of the Fanboy	Shaun Cichacki	2 / 5 stars	03-03-2022	The murky visuals, bland dungeon design, boring gameplay overshadow the excellent boss design and a killer soundtrack, making this more of a chore to play and dampening the experience tremendously. There is no way in good faith that this could be recommended as a full-priced title, however in the future, if they improve upon the many mistakes that are currently in the game, it could be made into what it originally looked to be.	Read review
Bazimag	Sina Golabzade	7.5 / 10	03-04-2022	Babylon’s Fall doesn’t put its best foot forward but if you stay with it through the first couple of main environments, then it becomes one of the best action/RPGs that you can both play alone as a hefty challenge or you can play with up to three other players as one of the most chaotic epic fantasy video games of all times. The game’s biggest shortcoming is its visuals which uses a not so eye-catching style.	Read review
CGMagazine	Preston Dozsa	2 / 10	03-07-2022	Babylon’s Fall is an early contender for the worst game of 2022.	Read review
Checkpoint Gaming	Nat Patterson	3.5 / 10	03-10-2022	From a dismal effort on the front of graphics, user interface, player onboarding, sound design, and essentially every other aspect of game design, Babylon’s Fall is a failure. Games have bounced back from disastrous launches in the past, but in this case, I feel like it may be best to let sleeping dogs lie. The game’s one and only saving grace is that Platinum Games truly are the kings of combat, and while Babylon’s Fall is nowhere near the top of their collection of works, hacking and slashing your way through the Tower of Babel is at least, occasionally, kind of fun. It is just a crying shame that there is very little else to enjoy from the game; there isn’t anything pretty to look at, nice to listen to, or easy to engage with.	Read review
Chicas Gamers	Sandra Sánchez	Not Recommended	03-07-2022	Babylon’s Fall is a multiplayer online RGP game where you can personalize your character to fight cooperatively with more online players. This game mix severals mechanicals, such as hack and slash, action RPG or online cooperative. This risky approach is interesting but, we cannot explorate all the potential of this game yet. The plot and how this game looks like, needs to be nearer to the current generation of videogames. However, could bring us some good experiences and could be enjoyable.	Read review
COGconnected	Jaz Sagoo	60 / 100	03-05-2022	Babylon’s Fall falters with its implementation of a live-service model. While it contains a compelling, multi-faceted combat system, its brilliance is lost in a crowd of unnecessary features. The art direction, although interesting, doesn’t capture the notion of an oil painting. Instead, it looks bland and at times, downright ugly. Unfortunately, it seems that a troubled development period has marred the game, resulting in a directionless, cluttered and convoluted adventure.	Read review
Daily Mirror	Eugene Sowah	2 / 5 stars	03-09-2022	Babylon’s Fall is a mixed bag with combat mechanics and customisation standing at the forefront of the positives. But the majority of the game just doesn’t flow as well as it could’ve with dated graphics, shockingly repetitive gaming loop and expensive microtransactions, Babylon’s Fall is a bit of a letdown.	Read review
Destructoid	Chris Carter	5 / 10	03-04-2022	An Exercise in apathy, neither solid nor liquid. Not exactly bad, but not very good either. Just a bit ‘meh,’ really.	Read review
Digitally Downloaded	Matt Sainsbury	3 / 5 stars	03-07-2022	I don’t think we should completely give up on it, though. Games have been turned around from disastrous launches to become quite well-loved things, and I do think there is room for Babylon’s Fall to grow, while also being a decent time (in the right conditions) right now. It’s certainly content rich in its current state already, and while it’s probably a bit of a gamble throwing money into something that might not be around for too long, I can still see this developing a community.	Read review
Everyeye.it	Antonello Bello	5 / 10	03-08-2022	Babylon’s Fall is a huge wasted opportunity. Supported by ingenious mechanics such as the Gideon Arms or the Dynamis Abilities, the combat system had the potential to shine with a new and intense light, but the questionable choice to postpone to the endgame the unlocking of crafting and skills related to the three races greatly slows down the progression, placing the player in front of an unbearable monotony and spurring him to abandon the product within a few hours.	Read review
Gamefa	پارسا طامه	4 / 10	03-10-2022	Babylon’s Fall doesn’t have the ability to offer a rich and enjoyable multiplayer section.	Read review
Gamers Heroes	Blaine Smith	8 / 10	03-02-2022	My time with Babylon’s Fall was a strange one. I don’t recall ever disliking a game so heavily, only to fall in love with it moments later. The satisfaction driven nature of the experience is a road worth taking, but the slow burn isn’t for everyone.	Read review
GameSkinny	Hayes Madsen	4 / 10	03-15-2022	Babylon’s Fall is a baffling game that lacks any distinct vision, both in terms of gameplay and artistic design.	Read review
GameSpew	Richard Seagrave	5 / 10	03-08-2022	If you love loot-based games and like the idea of wielding four weapons at once, you can get some enjoyment out of Babylon’s Fall. You’ve got to look past the drab visuals though, and have plenty of patience to get through its opening hours and lack of direction. Ultimately, there are some good ideas here, and some fun moments to be had, but they’re wrapped up in a package that feels rough around the edges and not up to the usual standard that you’d expect from PlatinumGames.	Read review
God is a Geek	Mick Fraser	3 / 10	03-04-2022	That Babylon’s Fall comes from Platinum Games is perhaps the biggest surprise here. A banal, uninspired hack ‘n’ slasher with no imagination or personality.	Read review
Hardcore Gamer	Jordan Helm	1.5 / 5 stars	03-07-2022	Anyone who’s been keeping tabs may not be all that surprised to find Square Enix once again in a precarious spot that is in part baffling but more so predictable given recent history.	Read review
IGN	Justin Koreis	4 / 10	03-09-2022	Babylon’s Fall isn’t a broken action RPG, but it isn’t a good one, either – and it’s one of the ugliest games in several console generations.	Read review
IGN Italy	Alessandra Borgonovo	5 / 10	03-12-2022	Babylon’s Fall does nothing to be, if not remarkable, memorable: at least not in a positive way.	Read review
IGN Middle East	Zaher Albalbisi	4.5 / 10	03-12-2022	Babylon’s Fall could be one of the worst titles of 2022, even though it had the potential to be something good, all of that potential was lost in a bad design, very outdated graphics, a very bad story, and a cheap attempt to make money in a tired gaas concept.	Read review
Impulsegamer	Abdul Saad	2.5 / 5 stars	03-21-2022	All in all, while Babylon’s Fall had several good ideas and had a lot of potential, it shot itself in the foot with its intrusive live service model and its painfully obvious lack of polish, making it that much harder to recommend to anyone, especially at the ludicrous price of $60.	Read review
LevelUp	Ulises Contreras	6 / 10	03-10-2022	BABYLON’S FALL is a huge disappointment. The initial charm of the combat system fades off very quickly and the level design feed that feeling of monotony of boredom. This is a shame, as the combat and the narrative concepts have so much potential.	Read review
Metro GameCentral	GameCentral	2 / 10	03-09-2022	Not only the worst game Platinum has ever made but one of the worst live service titles of any kind, with an especially disgusting attitude towards microtransactions.	Read review
MMORPG.com	Mitchell Gassner	6 / 10	03-21-2022	Now the only question left is whether Platinum Games and Square Enix have the fortitude to recover? I hope they do, but once players label a game as average (or worse), it can be an insurmountable task to change their minds.	Read review
Niche Gamer	Fingal Belmont	4 / 10	03-11-2022	Babylon’s Fall should’ve been an 11-13 hour action game with a lot of replay value and over the top cutscenes. It should have been an outrageous and addictive action game. This is a free-to-play game but with the greedy audacity to charge people $59.99. If this was free-to-play, then most of its faults would sting slightly less, but they would still sting.	Read review
PC Gamer	Anne Marie Coyle	45 / 100	03-16-2022	An overpriced game with a solid combat system that’s buried under a mountain of banality and monetisation.	Read review
PC Invasion	Andrew Farrell	7 / 10	03-07-2022	Babylon’s Fall has fast, flashy combat and a generally enjoyable structure, but is packed with issues, ranging from its limited co-op function to live service elements, which appear to have sealed its fate.	Read review
PlayStation Universe	Benjamin Shillabeer-Hall	4 / 10	03-14-2022	Babylon’s Fall flat out needed more time. The graphics make the experience just horrible at times, with the filter even giving me headaches. The combat can be enjoyable, though there is a grind to it, it’s something I still enjoy along with the music. Beyond that however, there are still just too many aspects of this game that can make your time with it headache-inducing more often than not.	Read review
PSX Brasil	Thiago de Alencar Moura	35 / 100	03-18-2022	Babylon’s Fall is a game that impresses by the fact that nothing in it works as it should. It’s a boring title and marked by a series of problems. It ends up standing out as one of the worst games in a year full of great releases.	Read review
Push Square	Stuart Gipp	3 / 10	03-12-2022	Given the nature of live service titles it’s possible that Babylon’s Fall could see a phoenix-style resurrection with some rebalancing, but somehow, we doubt it. Hopefully this absolute misfire doesn’t signal a profound change in direction for Platinum Games; this title had a troubled conception and it shows, but rather than iterate on things, we’d rather see a return to single player dominance. There’s just nothing about Babylon’s Fall that warrants going back to the drawing board. Except for that fantastic boss battle in which you race the Batmobile against those jorts-clad pink elephants. Oh wait, that was just a dream we had when the game put us to sleep.	Read review
Rock, Paper, Shotgun	Ed Thorn	Not Recommended	03-04-2022	Babylon’s Fall is a confusing jumble of an online action-RPG that’s mired in unrewarding activities and loot.	Read review
Screen Rant	Jamie Russo	Not Recommended	03-01-2022	Overall, Babylon’s Fall starts out as a seemingly grindy game, but there are some elements that unlock in later sections that could help to break up the repetitiveness. Being able to craft or enhance weapons is likely to alleviate some of the need for grinding for gear that occurs in the first few Cloisters of the tower. There are also quests and orders to unlock outside of the main story and daily, weekly, or seasonal missions. Babylon’s Fall has a lot of content to explore that will hopefully keep the game from being just a grindy action RPG	Read review
Shacknews	Donovan Erskine	5 / 10	03-12-2022	Babylon’s Fall feels like a game that came out a decade ago, both visually and in its gameplay. Combat is clunky and boring most of the time, outside of a few highlights here and there. There’s nothing that encourages players to engage with the live-service elements, despite it being a core tenet of the experience. It’s like someone fed a computer a bunch of information and had it generate an action RPG. Babylon’s Fall’s biggest credit is that it’s technically competent; the game isn’t broken or held back by major bugs or issues. It’s a shame, because PlatinumGames has proven itself to be an impressive talented studio. Unfortunately, Babylon’s Fall manages to disappoint on just about every front.	Read review
Sirus Gaming	Erickson Melchor	4.5 / 10	03-08-2022	Babylon’s Fall is a failure on multiple levels made worse by a plethora of outdated ideas and Square’s reluctance to innovate on the games-as-a-service model that ensures that it’ll never stand out in a sea of other mediocre live service games. This would have been an ok game if it weren’t for the premium track battle pass that really doesn’t seem to appeal to anyone. In its current state, it’s not worth the asking price.	Read review
SpazioGames	Silvio Mazzitelli	4.5 / 10	03-10-2022	Babylon’s Fall gets wrong everything that you can get wrong in a game.	Read review
The Games Machine	Majkol Robuschi	5.8 / 10	03-07-2022	Babylon’s Fall is the first console GaaS developed by Platinum Games and it shows. Technically anchored to the past and artistically uninspired, the action game developed by the creators of Bayonetta hides its best features behind an abysmal story mode that lets the gameplay breath only after more than 10 hours of mandatory tutorials. Post-game content is interesting and the gameplay loop might be engaging after a good amount of updates to fix the rough edges, but will players keep faith in the developers after being welcomed in that way?	Read review
TheSixthAxis	Aran Suddi	3 / 10	03-07-2022	Babylon’s Fall is just dull, repetitive and ultimately forgettable. The combat at the game’s core so simple and lacking in challenge, especially if you have a full team. We all know that PlatinumGames are capable of games so much more than this, and Square Enix should probably step back from their live service efforts, because they simply haven’t cracked it.	Read review
Twinfinite	Cameron Waldrop	2 / 5 stars	03-04-2022	The true problem of Babylon’s Fall is that it has no sense of identity. There’s nothing that sets it apart from games like it, and it only shows itself as a poor comparison to other, free, games. Babylon’s Fall feels like it was made to check a box, because it is just so empty and slapped together. The cookie-cutter levels only serve to wear you down as you just want to make it through main missions that are just about your only way to play the game. At the end of the day, Babylon’s Fall is a live-service game, assuming it survives this rocky launch, there’s enough potential to maybe transform it into something much better in the future.	Read review
VGC	Jordan Middler	1 / 5 stars	03-04-2022	There is no one that we would recommend Babylon’s Fall to. It’s visually dated, consistently dull and features the most average PlatinumGames combat we can remember. On paper, the concept of a game like this bathed in the studio’s signature style is an appealing one, but sadly there’s nothing about the Platinum shine that’s evident in Babylon’s Fall.	Read review
VGChartz	Paul Broussard	3 / 10	03-22-2022	For what it’s worth, Babylon’s Fall is not the worst AAA game to ever release… it runs properly, doesn’t have any major glitches, and is functional without having to spend any extra cash. It’s just a very boring, uninteresting game that doesn’t work or engage without such a substantial time commitment that I don’t think it would be worthwhile to even the most diehard of Platinum Games’ fans.	Read review
Wccftech	Ule Lopez	1.5 / 10	03-10-2022	Babylon’s Fall is a terrible experience all the way throughout. Reaching the endgame and postgame content (when the game actually becomes quite good) doesn’t matter because the journey to get to that point is the most painfully boring affair in gaming. The game’s dull story and horrendous visuals certainly don’t do this game any favors.	Read review
WellPlayed	Mark Isaacson	3 / 10	03-11-2022	This isn’t the PlatinumGames experience I expected, and that’s the most depressing part of it all. An absolute waste of potential that should have been far greater than this mess of a release that will quickly be forgotten.	Read review
Zoomg	Unknown	2.5 / 10	03-08-2022	Babylon’s Fall is not only not a good game, but it is the worst game made by Platinum Games.	Read review
ZTGD	Terrence Johnson	4 / 10	03-16-2022	Babylon’s Fall is not an awful game, its just not a very good one and while I would never tell anyone what to do with their money, I will strongly suggest you avoid this one as it’s fate will surely be the same as the tower for which its named.	Read review

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After the Babylonians perished, only their great tower “The Ziggurat” remained. Now a new empire has come to pillage its ruins and uncover its fabled treasures. Join forces with other Sentinels, unwilling subjects forcibly implanted with Gideon Coffin, relics that grant the few survivors unrivaled powers. Ascend to greatness as you climb the looming Tower of Babel and uncover its fabled treasures. Only by mastering the powers of your Gideon Coffin, will you unlock your true potential and become strong enough to survive the summit and uncover the secrets that await.

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