Full Game Reviews
Rating of
3.5/5
Manifest Density
Chris Kavan - wrote on 04/22/2026
Developer Spiders (under the Nacon umbrella) never really had a breakout but GreedFall is about as ambitious as they could hope for. A not-quite open world game that does its best to compete with the AAA blockbusters and actually mostly succeeds even if it still displays that patented Eurojank as expected from a smaller team. It was good enough that it at least led to a recently-released sequel - even though the sequel diverges in gameplay and has received mixed reviews. The future of Spiders is in doubt with Nacon filing for insolvency in Feb. 2026 and with the sequel failing to achieve much success but at least this original offering is a decent way to remember them.
Looks and Stuff: GreedFall looks decent for what it is - a smaller open-world type game run on a smaller engine. The …
Rating of
4.5/5
From ‘B’ to ‘A’… Finally!
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 05/04/2021
“Greedfall” comes to us, hot off the presses in September 2019 (with even fresher ports to the 9th Gen consoles slated for Summer 2021) from the perpetual always-rans at French B-rate developer Spiders and also-French budget publisher Focus (Home) Interactive. The history of Euro-jank videogame development is somewhat long and convoluted, but the Cliff’s Notes version is that a lot of disgruntled employees left Ubisoft as it grew ponderously into one of the Big Three, and started their own smaller studios. They were never able to compete globally on Ubisoft’s level, and since roughly 2001 have been churning out low-quality, low-budget offerings, frequently featuring some sort of licensed IP or Euro-sport tie-in.
After years of flailing around, but getting nowhere, the largest …
