Nobody Saves the World

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Although the combat is mindless and the dungeons are rather bland, Nobody Saves the World is a compelling action-RPG that maintains all the hallmarks of Drinkbox games.

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Although the combat is mindless and the dungeons are rather bland, Nobody Saves the World is a compelling action-RPG that maintains all the hallmarks of Drinkbox games.

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7/10

Mitchell Saltzman (IGN)

The middle of Nobody Saves the World is a lot of fun, but it is bookended by a slow beginning and final hours that lose steam as the campaign comes to an end.

January 18, 2022 |

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Drinkbox Studios delivers a funny and challenging adventure that’s not afraid to get weird and encourages clever customization.

January 18, 2022 |

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8.3/10

John Carson (Game Informer)

9/10

Steve Watts (GameSpot)

Nobody Saves The World is a fiendishly compelling action-RPG with creative ideas that all fit together for frictionless fun.

January 18, 2022 |

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Mitchell Saltzman (IGN)

7/10 - (Read Review)

The middle of Nobody Saves the World is a lot of fun, but it is bookended by a slow beginning and final hours that lose steam as the campaign comes to an end.

John Carson (Game Informer)

8.3/10 - (Read Review)

Drinkbox Studios delivers a funny and challenging adventure that’s not afraid to get weird and encourages clever customization.

Steve Watts (GameSpot)

9/10 - (Read Review)

Nobody Saves The World is a fiendishly compelling action-RPG with creative ideas that all fit together for frictionless fun.

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Outlet	Author	Score	Date	Quote	Read
3DNews	Михаил Пономарев	9 / 10	01-23-2022	Nobody Saves the World is a charming game that combines inventive gameplay, beautiful art style, a touching story, and wonderful music.	Read review
AusGamers	KostaAndreadis	8.5 / 10	01-27-2022	And for every fireball or lightning zap there’s something out of left-field, funny, and cool to sit alongside it.	Read review
Bazimag	Sina Golabzade	9 / 10	01-18-2022	The entertaining gameplay is coupled with a funny set-up that pays homage to the older similar games while also making fun of them. The visual presentation is another fantastic part of this great experience which definitely doesn’t break any new ground but it’s made with such perfection in most of its aspects that Nobody Saves the World is an instant classic.	Read review
But Why Tho?	Mick Abrahamson	8 / 10	01-18-2022	Nobody Saves the World is another fun-filled game by the team at Drinkbox Studios. While there were very few memorable NPCs, the forms are really what shines the most. From being able to customize them for any need to quickly switching between them, Drinkbox Studios nailed their hook of this game. I just wish they took the time to focus on the game’s villains just as much as they did the many NPCs.	Read review
Checkpoint Gaming	Chantelle McColl	9.5 / 10	01-19-2022	I can’t praise Nobody Saves the World enough for both its undeniable style and interesting game mechanics. The world is fleshed out and detailed, which allows the characters and environment to come to life. The Forms available create a unique class system that I personally haven’t seen before, especially because the character designs are so eccentric and interesting. The dungeons are all thematically compelling with tough challenges that make you have to experiment with different abilities and combinations. Add to this co-op compatibility and you’re left with a remarkable release that’s ready to bestow you and a friend with unrivalled joy.	Read review
COGconnected	Tony Bae	55 / 100	01-18-2022	It may sound harsh, but Nobody Saves the World really threw all my pet peeves into a barrel and gave it a nice coat of paint.	Read review
cublikefoot	Chase Ferrin	8 / 10	01-18-2022	Nobody Saves the World is a pleasant surprise, with fun combat, solid questing, great art and music, and a nice sense of wit too. An easy recommendation if you have a buddy to do co-op with.	Read review
Destructoid	Chris Carter	8.5 / 10	01-18-2022	I was a bit skeptical about Nobody Saves the World pulling off everything it tried to do, but it won me over very quickly. While the main questline lacks some meat on the bones at times, a lot of people will barely notice it as they unlock new transformations and start to mix and match old ones.	Read review
Digital Chumps	Ben Sheene	9 / 10	11-07-2019	Nobody Saves the World is a unique and thrilling take on top-down adventure games, featuring a sharp aesthetic and genuinely addicting gameplay that fosters combat where similar titles have faltered.	Read review
Eurogamer	Christian Donlan	Recommended	01-18-2022	Drinkbox’s latest is an ARPG that has real fun with the classes.	Read review
Everyeye.it	Icilio Bellanima	7.3 / 10	01-18-2022	The main strength of Nobody Saves the World is its never being trivial: it is not in the beautiful music, in the funny dialogues, in the simple plot, nor in the complex but satisfying system of Aspects, which gives the player the opportunity to mix skills and create new and devastating builds. In short, it is a game in full Drinkbox style, different from the splendid Guacamelee!, but from which it inherits an over-the-top style and an explosion of creativity found not only in the artistic component, but in every pixel.	Read review
Explosion Network	Ashley Hobley	8.5 / 10	01-19-2022	With beautiful art, great music and a satisfying gameplay loop, these games will have you captivated for hours as you explore every nook and cranny of the delightful world.	Read review
Forbes	Unknown	Recommended	01-18-2022	However, if that means Drinkbox ought to make a sequel to fully explore the world’s potential, I’m all for it. For action-RPG fans, Nobody Saves the World is a must-play; for Game Pass subscribers, it’s another classic surprise just waiting for you to stumble upon it.	Read review
Game Informer	John Carson	8.3 / 10	01-18-2022	Drinkbox Studios delivers a funny and challenging adventure that’s not afraid to get weird and encourages clever customization.	Read review
Game Rant	Pam K. Ferdinand	3.5 / 5 stars	01-18-2022	Overall, Nobody Saves the World could have been exceptional, but there are certain aspects that are lacking. The expected Drinkbox Studios humor isn’t pervasive enough to keep people playing to see what’s next, the story is negligible and seems like something tossed in to give players a half-hearted sense of purpose, and the repetitiveness of quests gets tiresome very quickly. The positives of the game – the appealing art style, variety of skills and dungeons, and perhaps multiplayer — might not be enough to keep players interested either. That being said, the gameplay and presentation of Nobody Saves the World will undoubtedly win over many people, and it may capture the attention of others for a solid chunk of time.	Read review
Gamers Heroes	Johnny Hurricane	8 / 10	01-24-2022	For those looking for some co-op fun, Nobody Saves the World is your game. If you’ve got a buddy that likes top-down action RPGs, make sure to add this one to your queue.	Read review
GameSkinny	David Restrepo	9 / 10	01-17-2022	In turning the action RPG genre on its head, Nobody Saves the World is difficult to put down.	Read review
GameSpace	LaSt04Ka	8 / 10	03-04-2022	The further you progress in Nobody Saves the World, the more absurdity you encounter, and it’s wonderful.	Read review
GameSpew	Kim Snaith	8 / 10	01-18-2022	Making your way around Nobody Saves the World‘s map is nothing but a pure joy. This gorgeous, whimsical adventure feels like a more playful A Link to the Past at times – if A Link to the Past had you changing into a slug or a zombie, that is. If you’re a fan of accessible action RPGs and enjoy laying waste to tonnes of enemies, you can’t go wrong here. Once again, Drinkbox Studios has taken an oversaturated genre and turned it into something unique and delightful.	Read review
GameSpot	Steve Watts	9 / 10	01-18-2022	Nobody Saves The World is a fiendishly compelling action-RPG with creative ideas that all fit together for frictionless fun.	Read review
GameWatcher	Bogdan Robert	7.5 / 10	01-18-2022	Nobody Saves the World’s form switching and punchy, responsive combat carries the game where its other elements let it down. The star of the show is its surprisingly dynamic twist on aRPG mechanics that makes figuring out builds to counter the dangers of its dungeons rewarding enough to warrant spending 20+ hours killing monsters and helping its sometimes oddball NPCs.	Read review
Geek Culture	Jake Su	9.3 / 10	01-18-2022	It could have been a messy affair, but Nobody Saves The World delivers strongly on all fronts, cementing DrinkBox Studios as creators that put out magic with their every touch.	Read review
God is a Geek	Chris Hyde	9.5 / 10	01-18-2022	Nobody Saves the World is a superb adventure, with lots of to see, do, experiment with, and have lots of crazy fun whilst doing so.	Read review
Hardcore Gamer	Jordan Helm	4 / 5 stars	01-18-2022	If one were being picky, you could argue Drinkbox’s focus this time on repeated dungeon-crawling may not have the same wow factor the studio’s past projects have garnered on first glance.	Read review
Hey Poor Player	Andrew Thornton	4.5 / 5 stars	01-18-2022	It’s rare that we get a game as strong as Nobody Saves the World so early in the year. With excellent combat, a huge overworld to explore, and a ton of personality, I don’t have a lot negative to say about it. Those who enjoy games like Hades and The Binding of Isaac have found their next fix. Even if you’re not generally a big fan of roguelikes, the game’s more linear overworld and forgiving checkpoints offer an inviting path to entry.	Read review
Hobby Consolas	Álvaro Alonso	80 / 100	01-18-2022	‎Nobody Saves the World maintains all the hallmarks of Drinkbox games: a direct, varied and entertaining gameplay, a visual section cartoon style and sense of humor … A lot of sense of humor. If you liked the studio’s previous games, it’s a must.‎	Read review
IGN	Mitchell Saltzman	7 / 10	01-18-2022	The middle of Nobody Saves the World is a lot of fun, but it is bookended by a slow beginning and final hours that lose steam as the campaign comes to an end.	Read review
IGN Italy	Biagio Etna	8 / 10	01-18-2022	Nobody Saves the World is a sparkling, crazy and easygoing action-adventure, capable of entertaining for a long time and providing hours of genuine fun.	Read review
IGN Spain	Rafa Del Río	7 / 10	01-24-2022	A fascinating ARPG with high doses of dungeon crawler that manages to surprise with its curious gameplay and interesting artwork.	Read review
Metro GameCentral	GameCentral	6 / 10	01-18-2022	Despite the huge variety of moves and characters, this disappointing follow-up to Guacamelee is let down by mindless combat and bland dungeon design.	Read review
New Game Network	Yasmine Hubbard	73 / 100	03-14-2022	Nobody Saves the World offers an interesting shapeshifting mechanic that is instrumental to the gameplay; however, the drawn-out reliance on repetitive quests holds it back from metamorphosising into its true potential.	Read review
Niche Gamer	Michael Valverde	8.5 / 10	01-31-2022	My first playthrough took about 20 hours; the game crashed only once, and I only lost a few minutes of progress. The rebalancing offered by New Game+ and online co-op make it very tempting for me to start my next playthrough— although the bog-standard setting and milquetoast humor slightly dampen my enthusiasm. Still, this is an excellent retro action game with razor-sharp mechanics that I highly recommend.	Read review
NoobFeed	Adam Siddiqui	80 / 100	01-22-2022	Nobody Saves the World starts strong with an imaginative world full of variety and lots of baddies to defeat. You’ll explore various dungeons and defeat hordes of enemies in an attempt to save the world that classics the joy found in retro adventure games. However, Nobody Saves the World attempts to create that sense of exploration and dungeon crawling without much reward for doing it. Instead, much of the game focuses on grinding out tedious challenges to level up and collect lots of gems.	Read review
Paste Magazine	Moises Taveras	8 / 10	01-20-2022	Nobody is ambitious but not too in over its head, funny to boot and grounded in an idea that understands the joy of defining conventions. It may miss a bit of the formula that’s made its influences as strong as they were, but it’s got style and confidence and those are swings I’m glad connected. Most of all, it reminds me of the fun I used to have playing pretend, and even though I’ve stopped, games like this one help keep that sense of adventure alive.	Read review
PC Gamer	Jon Bailes	80 / 100	01-18-2022	Nobody does it better? Not quite, but this is a highly entertaining action RPG.	Read review
Polygon	Owen Good	Recommended	01-18-2022	Advancing the big picture with smaller, focused, (and most importantly, repeating) goals helps keep Nobody Saves the World’s progression from being too rigid or linear. Lots of RPGs and games with perk trees aspire to non-linear progression, only to have that ideal undone when players discover that advancing sequentially is still the most efficient, least-time consuming way to beat the game. Nobody Saves the World’s mix-and-match system, plus the baddies’ collection of wards and vulnerabilities, kept me tinkering with my builds, which is fun in and of itself. My main build exemplified and optimized my preferred playing style (it’s in the Rat, actually), and then I had one or two others to deal with whatever task or dungeon was immediately at hand. On the dungeon after that, I was rummaging through my menus like a fly fisherman knowing that the perfect lure was somewhere in his tackle box.	Read review
Rapid Reviews UK	Seb Hawden	4.5 / 5 stars	02-14-2022	I have loved every Drinkbox Studios game I have played. I loved the uncanny Mutant Blobs Attack, the Guacamelee series is one of my favourite Metroidvania’s ever created and Severed was so brilliantly unique on the PlayStation Vita. Their art style is unique, their gameplay rewarding but most of all, everything Drinkbox Studios make, is fun and let’s face it, that is why we are all here.	Read review
Rock, Paper, Shotgun	Ed Thorn	Recommended	01-18-2022	An action RPG that has you shapeshifting through a colourful world. Despite that colour, and some really fun moments, repetitive dungeon-crawls mean you’re not so much saving the world as clearing it.	Read review
Saving Content	Scott Ellison II	4 / 5 stars	01-18-2022	Nobody Saves the World is reminiscent of other games in the genre, yet not at all like them. It quickly becomes clear that Nobody Saves the World is out to do its own thing its own way, and that’s refreshing what you’d expect from DrinkBox. Over the course of the 20-hour journey, I was ready to see it end, thanks in no part to its grindy element. I do wish it was a bit more focused, but exploring the map, opening up pathways, and finding its secrets are something I enjoyed. This is incredibly inspired, ambitious, and full of that humor that DrinkBox Studios is known for, making Nobody Saves the World an instant classic.	Read review
Shacknews	Donovan Erskine	9 / 10	01-18-2022	Nobody Saves the World cleverly plays on RPG tropes, poking fun while injecting them with new life thanks to interesting mechanics that keep gameplay fresh. The story expertly balances humor and seriousness, and the world is gorgeous enough that you always feel encouraged to keep exploring. Drinkbox Studios delivers its best work yet and one of the early hits of 2022 with Nobody Saves the World.	Read review
Skill Up	Ralph Panebianco	Recommended	01-21-2022	Video Review	Read review
Softpedia	Cosmin Vasile	8 / 10	01-21-2022	Nobody Saves the World is a fun game, where the story, the quests and every other gameplay element are in the service of the character and evolution system. There are no armours or weapons or potions, it all comes down to the forms that work as classes and mixing their abilities.	Read review
SpazioGames	Gianluca Arena	7.6 / 10	01-25-2022	Nobody saves the world is a vast array of fun ideas made game, proving once again the talent of the people at DrinkBox Studios. It’s easy to grasp and to understand, but a little on the repetitive and easy side, too. A no brainer if you have Game Pass.	Read review
TechRaptor	Austin Suther	8 / 10	01-18-2022	Drinkbox’s signatue charm and humor is infused in this non-serious ARPG. With a wonderful art style and fun world to explore, Nobody Saves the World is a fun 20 hour escape.	Read review
The Escapist	Jesse Galena	Recommended	01-13-2022	Video Review	Read review
The Games Machine	Emanuele Feronato	8.8 / 10	02-02-2022	Nobody Saves the World is a hack n’ slash that starts from a quite casual approach, due to the lack of both inventory and skill points distribution, but shows its real depth after a few hours of play, when we are called to experiment with thousands of different builds to to better tear all enemies to pieces. The repetitiveness that generally plagues this kind of games is kept under control thanks to fun quests and a plot that takes us on a tour around a crazy world. Absolutely recommended both for hack n’ slash lovers and for those who want to approach to this genre of games without taking them too seriously.	Read review
TrueAchievements	Luke Albiges	4 / 5 stars	01-18-2022	Nobody Saves the World is a bold change of direction for the team best known for the Guacamelee! games, and the gamble pays off	Read review
VGChartz	Evan Norris	7.5 / 10	01-19-2022	Nobody Saves the World is a really good game — almost a great one.	Read review
Video Chums	A.J. Maciejewski	6.9 / 10	01-18-2022	Nobody Saves the World does exploration and variety exceptionally well. At the same time, its heavy flow of rewards with very little challenge involved often makes it feel like you’re mindlessly and unskillfully pressing buttons just to get another quick dopamine hit.	Read review
WayTooManyGames	Jordan Hawes	9 / 10	01-18-2022	Nobody Saves the World is a unique take on the ARPG genre with DrinkBox Studios’ signature style and the end result is something that I completely recommend. While there are some things that I wish were fleshed out a bit more with the dungeons specifically, this was an adventure that I didn’t want to put down. The way the game made me want to keep changing and upgrading characters is really well done by making their world involvement matter in unique ways.	Read review
Wccftech	Nathan Birch	8.5 / 10	01-18-2022	Nobody Saves the World is a lively, funny, and original take on the well-trodden Diablo-style action RPG that’s held back only slightly by a few sticky structural issues. Nobody Saves the World won’t completely change your world, but it should brighten it a bit.	Read review
WellPlayed	Ash Wayling, Mark Isaacson	9 / 10	01-18-2022	A welcome return by Drinkbox Studios, in a title that manages to entertain on various fronts. It’s an action RPG definitely worth diving into a dungeon for, with a lot more exploration needed for those looking for every secret.	Read review
Windows Central	Cole Martin	5 / 5 stars	01-18-2022	Nobody Saves the World is a humorous romp through a 2D world where the hero is little more than a pale, pantsless shell that players can magically transform into a colorful cast of characters. RPG elements let players customize the experience even further as they rack up a body count of baddies.	Read review
Zoomg	محمد صادق تواضعی	7.5 / 10	02-05-2022	Nobody Saves the World is an almost fun product with interesting ideas such as the existence of several multiple playable characters with a completely different combat system that the player can very well personalize in terms of combat style.	Read review

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Nobody Saves The World is a new twist on action RPGs, in which you play many different character Forms, each with their own unique gameplay mechanics. The Calamity’s power is growing, and nobody can save the world now. Good thing you are Nobody!

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