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Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden features a unique blend of story-driven action, memorable characters, and emotional core. Critics highlight the game’s strong narrative, compelling world-building, and impactful choices, although some find the combat repetitive and the enemy variety lacking.

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Hunt ghosts as two memorable characters in a story driven Action-RPG where your decisions have dramatic consequences. Solve haunting cases and battle supernatural forces combining Antea’s spiritual powers and Red’s arsenal.

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8.4

Dominic Leighton (TheSixthAxis)

February 12, 2024

8/10

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is a fantastic piece of storytelling, and it gives you a compelling world, people and lore for you to delve into. While it labours in some areas, you can put your own personality and feelings into this largely linear adventure, making this a game and a tale that deserves to be experienced.

Mick Fraser (God is a Geek)

February 12, 2024

9/10

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is a powerful, emotional and compelling tale that shows off a side of Don’t Nod that we’ve never seen so well-lit.

Liam Croft (Push Square)

February 12, 2024

8/10

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden sees developer DON’T NOD reach a new development peak, as it marries an excellent narrative with engaging and enjoyable gameplay. Poor enemy variety and technical flaws hold it back from true greatness, but its excellent, story-focused side quests on the other side make a few drab combat encounters worth pushing through. The studio’s best game to date, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is a new IP we hope is here to stay.

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Outlet	Author	Score	Date	Quote	Read
ACG	Jeremy Penter	Recommended	02-12-2024	A sometimes flawed but brilliantly unique title from Dont Nod	Read review
AltChar	Asmir Kovacevic	87 / 100	02-12-2024	If you’re a fan of games like The Witcher and God of War, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is an absolute must-play.	Read review
Atarita	Alparslan Gürlek	90 / 100	02-12-2024	Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is an impressive game that showcases DON’T NOD’s mastery of storytelling. It’s a delightful combination of heartbreaking storytelling and fluid gameplay. I can definitely recommend it.	Read review
But Why Tho?	Arron Kluz	7 / 10	02-12-2024	Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden continues Don’t Nod’s recent success with a gripping new experience. While its combat isn’t anything groundbreaking, the world that it transports players to and the story that it tells within it are well worth checking out.	Read review
Cerealkillerz	Nick Erlenhof	8 / 10	02-12-2024	Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is a journey into a wonderfully dark, serious and sometimes harsh world. You can expect many tough decisions, great characters and interesting twists, especially in the so-called “Haunting Case” side missions. Apart from that, the combat is unfortunately disappointing, remaining far too repetitive and clunky, and there is too much aimless wandering in the search for mission objectives. However, fans of the occult and the supernatural à la The Witcher or detective stories should definitely pick it up.	Read review
CGMagazine	Brendan Frye	9 / 10	02-12-2024	Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden masterfully weaves a narrative that not only captivates but also challenges players to reflect on their own moral compass.	Read review
Checkpoint Gaming	Luke Mitchell	8 / 10	02-12-2024	Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden heavily leans into the premise of challenging decisions with dramatic consequences, and manages to pull off an emotional and haunting love story where those choices do feel like they truly matter. Red and Antea feel like fully-fleshed out, interesting characters, forever linked to one another but struggling to let go. New Eden is full of communities plagued by supernatural creatures and dark secrets that make each of them intriguing to explore. An over-reliance on combat and a little too much hand-holding when it comes to solving cases is disappointing, but Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden can still be chalked up as yet another storytelling triumph for DON’T NOD. Life for the living. Death for the dead.	Read review
Chicas Gamers	Juanma Luengo	Recommended	02-12-2024	Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is destined to be one of the games of the year. It may go unnoticed among the mountain of releases that still await us in 2024, but it is still a truly interesting option for lovers of single-player games with an absorbing story. A great job by DON’T NOD who, using the base of Vampyr, the narrative of Life is strange and many ideas, especially from God Of War, have managed to create a game that shines with its own light. Hopefully sales will be good and we can have a sequel to this new IP in the future.	Read review
COGconnected	Michael Chow	90 / 100	02-12-2024	Quote not yet available	Read review
Console Creatures	Patrick Tremblay	Recommended	02-12-2024	Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden promises an unforgettable adventure, offering a well-balanced mix of combat, exploration, and narration to captivate players from the first moments.	Read review
Daily Mirror	Aaron Potter	5 / 5 stars	02-12-2024	Quote not yet available	Read review
Digital Trends	George Yang	4 / 5 stars	02-12-2024	Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden delivers both slick action and tough moral choices.	Read review
Enternity.gr	Stylianos Almpanidis	8 / 10	02-12-2024	After 30 hours that it takes to complete the main story of the game, the only thing that is certain is that Banishers: Ghost of New Eden manages to keep the interest undiminished and many will return to it for the alternative endings it offers.	Read review
Gameblog	Unknown	6 / 10	02-12-2024	https://www.gameblog.fr/jeu-video/jeux/tests/test-banishers-ghosts-of-new-eden-522979)	Read review
Gamefa	Mostafa Zahedi	8 / 10	02-12-2024	Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is a breath of fresh air among games I’ve played in recent years. Haunting Cases are amazing and world design is impressive. on the other hand, it suffers from different issues like low enemy variety, camera positioning and sporadic frame rate drop. That being said, it still delivers an amazing experience from start to finish.	Read review
Gameffine	Jay Krishnan	77 / 100	02-12-2024	Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden tells a compelling, emotionally charged story that’s supported by a layered cast of characters and great performances. It does stumble a bit when it comes to combat and encounter design and the awful lip-syncing does undermine the otherwise stellar voice acting. But if you’re someone used to AA experiences, the pros far outweigh the cons. For $49.99, you’re getting a well-written, lengthy single-player campaign with a slew of engaging side content that may take you anywhere from 25-50 hours to knock off.	Read review
GameGrin	Ariel Chloe Mann	10 / 10	02-12-2024	Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is astounding, and the way it tells a compelling story and connects you to the characters is really impressive. It’s impossible not to recommend this masterpiece of a game.	Read review
GameMAG	Unknown	8 / 10	02-12-2024	While not a masterpiece, Burnishers: Ghosts of New Eden is a very solid game. And the unique dark fantasy setting is a huge advantage.	Read review
Gamepressure	Matthias Pawlikowski	8 / 10	02-13-2024	I didn’t wait for Banishers, and I didn’t expect the game to be such a pleasant surprise for me. It’s a wonderful and quite long adventure, filled with side stories. Banishers is a game haunted by the ghost of satisfaction – satisfaction from good gameplay and a great story. I want more.	Read review
GamePro	Samara Summer	71 / 100	02-12-2024	Melancholic adventure with strong stories and good ideas, but which often gets in its own way.	Read review
GAMES.CH	Benjamin Braun	85 / 100	02-12-2024	Quote not yet available	Read review
Gaming Age	Matthew Pollesel	7.5 / 10	02-13-2024	Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden represents Don’t Nod’s latest attempt to try and make the whole action thing work. This time out, though, they’ve taken the novel approach of trying to play to their strengths, by creating a narrative-heavy action game with a heartfelt story and multiple endings that depend on your choices.	Read review
GamingBolt	Shubhankar Parijat	8 / 10	02-12-2024	Don’t Nod has taken several key lessons from Vampyr and applied them to great effect with its second action RPG. Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden might not be revolutionary in anything that it does, and from a gameplay standpoint, it can sometimes feel a bit too straightforward for its own good, but with a well-realized setting, captivating story, excellent protagonists, and genuinely compelling choice-and-consequence moments, it’s an easy game to recommend to fans of the genre.	Read review
GamingTrend	Cassie Peterson	80 / 100	02-12-2024	Banishers: Ghost of New Eden is a grim and gripping tale of two lovers coming to terms with love and sacrifice. Don’t Nod have built another beautiful world to enjoy.	Read review
GGRecon	Joshua Boyles	4 / 5 stars	02-12-2024	Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is an example of Don’t Nod doing what Don’t Nod does best	Read review
God is a Geek	Mick Fraser	9 / 10	02-12-2024	Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is a powerful, emotional and compelling tale that shows off a side of Don’t Nod that we’ve never seen so well-lit.	Read review
Hey Poor Player	Andrew Thornton	4 / 5 stars	02-12-2024	While it could use more enemy variety and some areas that are more open, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is a highly engaging action RPG featuring a love story I wanted to see through to its haunting conclusion. There are a lot of RPGs releasing in the first couple of months of this year, and with many of them being higher profile, it would be easy to overlook Banishers, but I hope players don’t do so. This is the exact sort of title we need studios to invest in more often.	Read review
IGN	Travis Northup	7 / 10	02-12-2024	Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden’s memorable story and inspired investigative cases help carry it across its rougher patches.	Read review
IGN Italy	Francesco Destri	8 / 10	02-12-2024	Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is Don’t Nod’s most ambitious and solid game, and despite some flaws in pacing and repetition, it remains an action-adventure loaded with feeling and with a solid combat-system.	Read review
IGN Spain	Estrella Gomez	8 / 10	02-12-2024	Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is a story full of love, spirits and sacrifices. This game has a very satisfying and challenging gameplay, as it forces players to face a series of ethical dilemmas, following DON’T NOD’s usual tone. Immersive and beautiful, this experience is capable of enchanting any type of player.	Read review
Infinite Start	Mark Fajardo	7 / 10	02-12-2024	Perhaps the optimal approach to grasping Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is to view it as a high-investment endeavor. Initially, progress may feel sluggish, and the narrative might seem disjointed. However, with increased time and effort, the experience undergoes a marked improvement. Admittedly, transitioning from a lackluster encounter to a satisfactory expertise may not represent the most favorable exchange. Nevertheless, enthusiasts of ghosts, the occult, or dialogue-rich adventures are likely to discover it worthwhile.	Read review
Kinda Funny Games	Kinda Funny Games	Not Recommended	02-12-2024	Video review.	Read review
MondoXbox	Mirko Rossi	8.5 / 10	02-12-2024	Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden effectively blends all the most characteristic gameplay elements of the action-RPG genre, combining them with a high-quality narrative plot. The result is a traditional and solid title, capable of entertaining the player thanks to a well-balanced combat system, an always interesting exploration component, and a unique and meaningful narrative. A game that all lovers of the genre and good stories should add to their collection.	Read review
Multiplayer First	Alex Co	9 / 10	02-12-2024	I have no experience in making games, but I imagine crafting a AAA experience on a new IP is not an easy task, and Don’t Nod manages to do that and then some. Prepare yourself for the first surprise hit of the year, and if the game’s quality is any indication, this looks like the start of a new franchise — one that I can’t wait to dive into yet again. Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is one haunting you owe it to yourself to experience.	Read review
Oyungezer Online	İpek Atam	8 / 10	02-12-2024	Don’t Nod’s best work yet. The impressive story, the immersive period atmosphere, the well-written characters and stories, and the smooth and enjoyable action are blended together, and it works very well.	Read review
PC Gamer	Tom Sykes	74 / 100	02-12-2024	This ghost story is stretched a little thin, but still well worth exploring.	Read review
PowerUp!	Adam Mathew	7 / 10	02-13-2024	When it comes down to that final eulogy, I have way more fond memories of Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden than I do regrets.	Read review
Press Start	James Mitchell	9.5 / 10	02-13-2024	Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is well beyond anything Don’t Nod has ever done. It successfully merges their renowned knack for solid characters and great stories, engaging and enjoyable combat and a unique setting to create an experience like no other. It’s a incredible fun and easily the studios most ambitious game so far. It doesn’t get much better than this.	Read review
PSX Brasil	Unknown	84 / 100	02-12-2024	Quote not yet available	Read review
Push Square	Liam Croft	8 / 10	02-12-2024	Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden sees developer DON’T NOD reach a new development peak, as it marries an excellent narrative with engaging and enjoyable gameplay. Poor enemy variety and technical flaws hold it back from true greatness, but its excellent, story-focused side quests on the other side make a few drab combat encounters worth pushing through. The studio’s best game to date, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is a new IP we hope is here to stay.	Read review
Rectify Gaming	Unknown	8 / 10	02-12-2024	I believe that Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden fills a specific niche in terms of genres, offering a unique blend of consequential story telling whilst also delivering a satisfying action role playing experience. It’s not perfect by any means, but it is a huge step forward in terms of creativity in the gaming medium and I’m all for it.	Read review
Rock, Paper, Shotgun	Alice Bell	Recommended	02-12-2024	Don’t Nod’s new third-person goth-tragedy action-adventure RPG is full of swashbuckling ghost hunting, bound up in a story unironically about the power of love. Despite some repetition and busywork, it’s a great time.	Read review
RPG Fan	Abraham Kobylanski	85 / 100	02-12-2024	Devilishly good stories and beautiful haunting visuals in a cool dark fantasy world overcome the bland combat.	Read review
Seasoned Gaming	Bryan Finck	8.5 / 10	02-12-2024	Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is an emotional masterpiece and my early leader for Game of the Year.	Read review
SECTOR.sk	Branislav Kohút	8.5 / 10	02-12-2024	Long live the spirits! Or rather not? The main characters of the game know about it, but their destinies are affected by an unexpected event and certainty turns into doubt. You will fight and explore the landscape, but the most interesting are definitely ghost stories.	Read review
Skill Up	Ralph Panebianco	Not Recommended	02-12-2024	Video Review	Read review
Slant Magazine	Aaron Riccio	3 / 5 stars	02-12-2024	Though the length of Ghosts of New Eden’s campaign is useful in establishing the intimate relationship between Red and Antea, it makes the rest of the game feel padded, especially if you’re doing the enjoyable, story-rich sidequests. There just aren’t enough enemy types or Manifestation skills to keep combat feeling fresh, and what you learn within the game’s first 10 hours is more or less what you’ll be doing for the subsequent 20 to 30.	Read review
SpazioGames	Domenico Siciliano	8.4 / 10	02-12-2024	Despite a stiff combat system that sometimes feels imprecise, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden presents a compelling story about love, human misery and crucial social themes.	Read review
Stevivor	Steve Wright	7.5 / 10	02-13-2024	Banishers Ghosts of New Eden’s rough edges are easily compensated by its charm. I had a ball meeting the inhabitants of New Eden and making judgements accordingly.	Read review
TechRaptor	Tyler Chancey	7.5 / 10	02-12-2024	Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is underwhelming as an action RPG, but is a must-play thanks to solid character drama and challenging moral decisions.	Read review
The Beta Network	Anthony Culinas	8 / 10	02-13-2024	Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden has turned out to be another strong IP for developers, Don’t Nod. The game features unique, real-time character-swapping to access different techniques and a solemn story that works best when it’s focused on the protagonists, Red and Antea. While the enemy variety is lacking and the investigation elements can be a tad tiresome, this 25-hour action RPG should absolutely be on your radar.	Read review
The Game Crater	Tom Wilson	6 / 10	02-13-2024	Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden falls short of its potential. Its central protagonists lack the chemistry and development to make meaningful choices feel impactful. Its combat and exploration feel like they’ve been lifted from better games, barely iterating on established formulas and, in some cases, making them worse. While there are some enjoyable side quests and the occasional glimmer of hope in the main subplot, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden never reaches the heights it should.	Read review
The Games Machine	Daniele Cucchiarelli	8.1 / 10	02-13-2024	An excellent action-RPG that follows in the footsteps of God of War and The Witcher 3 while proposing a very different but equally fascinating setting and two really cool main characters. Net of a few technical stumbles and some design naivete, Don’t Nod’s most ambitious project hits the mark rather well.	Read review
TheSixthAxis	Dominic Leighton	8 / 10	02-12-2024	Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is a fantastic piece of storytelling, and it gives you a compelling world, people and lore for you to delve into. While it labours in some areas, you can put your own personality and feelings into this largely linear adventure, making this a game and a tale that deserves to be experienced.	Read review
Video Chums	A.J. Maciejewski	8.1 / 10	02-12-2024	Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden surpassed my expectations thanks to its incredible sense of exploration, gripping story, and gorgeously-presented characters. Sure, it’s easy but the adventure is still well-worth going on for any curious ghost hunters out there. 👻	Read review
Wccftech	Alessio Palumbo	8.5 / 10	02-12-2024	There’s little doubt Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is Don’t Nod’s finest action game yet. I would also venture to say it’s one of their best games, period, and it’s also a great action RPG in its own right thanks to enjoyable combat, a big world with lots of content to explore and interesting stories to experience, and particularly for the amazing couple of lover protagonists.	Read review
WhatIfGaming	Ali Hashmi	8 / 10	02-12-2024	Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is a heartfelt love story, and both Red and Antea are incredibly memorable leads. The detailed haunting cases, difficult choices, and dense atmosphere add up to one of DON’T NOD’s best narrative titles in years. Banishers gracefully improves upon the foundation laid by Vampyr in more ways than one, but it’s often bogged down by repetitive combat that takes too long to get going. Despite that, it’s an adventure worth embarking on, that’s refined and respectful of your time.	Read review
XboxEra	Jesse Norris	8.7 / 10	02-12-2024	Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is a fantastic video game. It is the type that raises the medium and shows how incredible these experiences can be. The combat is good enough to rarely hinder your enjoyment as you help or harm the local populace. In an era where new single-player IPs are hard to find, this one deserves to succeed.	Read review

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