The First Berserker: Khazan

A brief history of excellent game design: 1. Game gets cracked. 2. Dev response: a "day one" patch that arrives six months late and its only payload is a fresh coat of Denuvo. 3. Performance, which nobody asked to touch, tanks anyway as if the DRM decided to collect its cut of the framerate in damages. 4. End result: paying customers get a heavier, choppier game, while the people who pirated it before the patch are...

3 found this helpful, 2026-09-09

In short I recommend this game, but there are some things which might turn you away from this game. The negative: - Unfortunately the team behind this game got shut down, so by buying this game, you won't be able to support them directly and hope for any kind of sequel is super low. - Game has this obsession with dark brown muted pallete. Game is really dark, so this was the artistic choice for this, but I still...

3 found this helpful, 2026-09-10

very nice and smooth combat but the campaign and levels get a bit repetitive after 10-20h. Would recommend in a sale.

2 found this helpful, 2026-08-30

I was going to give The First Berserker: Khazan ten hours before writing this. I made it to almost eight before the controller camera pissed me off enough to start early. Let me get the important part out of the way: I like the game, and I recommend it—especially if you can grab it on sale. Visually, I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ love it. The cel-shaded art immediately reminded me of Borderlands, but it isn’t trying to be Borderlands....

3 found this helpful, 2026-09-07

From what I've heard of this game, I expected it to be great. After playing through it thoroughly, I could not agree with this assesment. At every step of my journey, I've been plagued by a myriad of issues pertaining to basically every system of the game. The Combat This is undoubtedly the best part of the game, allowing a lot of skill expression through weaving skills together. It seems to be closer to a...

1 found this helpful, 2026-09-13

The combat feels great, the bosses are fun as hell and the game can be pretty challenging Banger Game 👍

1 found this helpful, 2026-09-17