Asterigos: Curse of the Stars
Asterigos: Curse of the Stars
Game
Game2024
Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn
Developer A44 Games
Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn is an action role-playing video game developed by A44 Games and published by Kepler Interactive. The game was released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on July 18, 2024. Upon release, it received mixed reviews from critics. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
320 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
70
Fresh
165 positive · 70 negative
95% range 64–76%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 165 | 70 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 26 | 5 | 49 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 5 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
747 of 1,004 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
70% recommend · 156 yes, 67 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 223 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (1,472 of 1,971 positive).
Some find the story and dialogue serviceable or weak, while others enjoy the characters. [1][2][3] Technical issues like stuttering and input problems frustrate some players. [4][5][6]
Liked
Representative posts
- [3]
Flinklock definitely has its pros, but it is really overshadowed by its cons. The game has mastered the dodge, block and parry systems of the Dark Soul series. The bosses have some of the best fights in the Dark Souls Genre. Axe and Gun combos are satisfying and immerses you into the combat system. It has a nice inclusion of maneuverability in the form of Rift Traveling to quickly move around large maps. Now here …
- [5]
Just grabbed this game for $5 from a key site. Glad I didn't pay more. The game itself seems pretty decent......HOWEVER; The developer has shown zero respect to consumers by shipping a game riddled with so much shader compilation stutter, and never returning to add a shader pre-compilation step post launch. It's honestly baffling how a recent title using Unreal engine could ship like this. It ruins immersion every …
- [7]
tl;dr: Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn is a good game. If any aspect of what you see on this page interests you, you will likely enjoy it. Flintlock marries a souls-LITE gameplay formula with extremely pleasant mobility (both in and out of combat) as well as a unique combat system allowing for many different playstyles and player expressions. You can play around with the hack and slash and dodge roll mechanics while …
- [15]
Never have I ever ..had such a hard time giving a game a recommendation, and although I’m giving this a thumbs up, I'll explain my neutralness by giving you 3 reasons for and against purchasing Flintlock and letting you, dear player, decide on your own. 3 reasons to avoid FLINTLOCK Sebo - A startling number of NPCs are down to play some Sebo.. and I get it: the devs are trying to instill the sense of an expansive, …
- [1]
this games feels like a "oops we run out of budget for the writers" the gameplay is solid and quite fun for an AA game but the story and dialogue are serviceable at best with some story line just happens without explanation, if you got this in a bundle or a sale for cheap, i could see you liking it but it was not worth the full price
Summarised from 34 of the 287 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
70% of the 223 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn. The complaint that keeps coming up: story and dialogue are weak or serviceable. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn received "mixed or average" reviews from critics, according to review aggregator website Metacritic. Fellow review aggregator OpenCritic assessed that the game received fair approval, being recommended by 34% of critics.
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 320 · most liked firstWhat a gorgeous game with very fun traversal. #FlintlockTheSiegeOfDawn
positive · AI labelView post →Some snippets of my foliage asset room while working on Flintlock. Majority of the games foliage was created by me. With some foundational work being done in the months prior by others. Interesting challenge working on foliage for an open world game. #gameart #gamedev #unrealengine #unreal #art
neutral · AI labelView post →Coming from a fan of Ashen, previous A44 game, it was the biggest pleasure playing their latest project. The hate towards this game comes from 2 different kinds of people. 1. Radical monkeys saying it is a woke DEI game 2. Jobless tryhards who think that if the game is similar to Dark Souls - it is bad because it is not Dark Souls. The only so-called "woke" thing in this game is that we are playing a black female character that has zero to none muscles. How come these real gamers did not…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hounded is live now on Kickstarter! Hounded is a dog-adventure game set in a Flintlock Fantasy world gripped by tyranny. Check it out over on Kickstarter today: www.kickstarter.com/projects/hou... #sponsored
neutral · AI labelView post →The next two games that I plan to play in their entirety on stream! ⚔️Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn 🧹Crypt Custodian
neutral · AI labelView post →Flinklock definitely has its pros, but it is really overshadowed by its cons. The game has mastered the dodge, block and parry systems of the Dark Soul series. The bosses have some of the best fights in the Dark Souls Genre. Axe and Gun combos are satisfying and immerses you into the combat system. It has a nice inclusion of maneuverability in the form of Rift Traveling to quickly move around large maps. Now here are some of the cons: - The story isn't bad but the dialogue is. Trying to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hounded is over 80% of the way to being funded on Kickstarter with 26 days left to go! Hounded is a dog-adventure game set in a Flintlock Fantasy world gripped by tyranny. Check it out over on Kickstarter today: www.kickstarter.com/projects/hou... #sponsored
neutral · AI labelView post →One of my favorite things about my setting being a literal video game, is that I can mix and match what things I want. Because the wirld was literally designed. Flintlock pistols from the 1700s? Done. 1880s era cities. Why not? Age of sail three masted galleons? You can't stop me. Mwahaha
neutral · AI labelView post →Humble's Soulslike Bundle - Thoughts?. cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35826959 > $6: > > | Game Name | Steam Link | > |----------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------| > | Achilles: Legends Untold | https://store.steampowered.com/app/1314000/Achilles_Legends_Untold/| > | Salt and Sacrifice |…
neutral · AI labelView post →This is the weirdest game that I played in a long time. Contradicting itself at every step. - Looks premium, like AAA, but lacks any sorts of depth. Like as if more budget went to dash animations than to level design. - Tries to be a souls-like, but plays more like God of War, at the same time overwhelming the player with all bunch of seemingly unnecessary mechanics. In what world do I need melee attacks, bloodborne-like shots, block/parry, companion attack, ultimate skill, and long-range shot…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can't say this is a bad game, so giving it an outright negative review feels too harsh, but it's also a weak recommendation. This game makes me wish there was a "meh" option. I did play it through to the end though, so I feel compelled to leave a review. However, it will sound mostly like criticism. Flintlock is at heart an aggressively average souls-like game where you are tasked with hunting down the gods to end an army of the undead. Even typing it sounds generic. The game is fairly…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ready to be done with the day and try out some new games. I want to check out Flintlock, Kunitsu-Game, and Dungeons of Hinterberg!
neutral · AI labelView post →If people want to understand why I ride the "welcome younger RPG players" thing so hard it's at least in part to the Birmingham university students who let 13 year old Flintlock join their D&D game until he found a group his own age. Wherever they are, I hope they've had fucking amazing lives.
neutral · AI labelView post →Fun game. Doesn't do anything particularly new or earth shattering, but it combines enough mechanics we've grown familiar with and does them all well enough to build a solid game. Roughly 20 hours to complete, and overall recommend.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't know about *notable,* but I really enjoyed my time playing Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn. Very AA game, a bit jank sometimes, but the characters are endearing and it's probably the most GoW18-based game I've played. Enki, the companion character, even has a dedicated button like Atreus.
positive · AI labelView post →Biggest issue, Fatal Error crops up every time I kill (or at least kill for first phase) the final boss. So ya... literally can't even beat the game. Had that error crash it one other time a bit before then as well, but it's consistent there at the end. Otherwise... it's... not much of a reccomend, like if it's for $5 and you got nothing else to do, sure... maybe even $10... but it's just kinda iffy. It's got some good parts, but at it's core some bad parts too. Most important, and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →tl;dr: Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn is a good game. If any aspect of what you see on this page interests you, you will likely enjoy it. Flintlock marries a souls-LITE gameplay formula with extremely pleasant mobility (both in and out of combat) as well as a unique combat system allowing for many different playstyles and player expressions. You can play around with the hack and slash and dodge roll mechanics while mixing in the parries, mobility, black powder attacks, grenades and firearms, and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I liked this one very very much indeed. It takes the soulslike recipe and adds many skills, abilities and fun ways to explore and fight that give this game a distinct identity in the genre. Unfortunately it ended far sooner than I wanted to.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a bit too clunky for me. It's not a bad idea, but the execution is fairly flawed. I couldn't get into the "rythm" of the combat - the enemies don't telegraph enough for my tastes, the parrying feels bad, and the dodging is worse. It's too bad, because the characters and aesthetic seem good, but I can't justify the time.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Here’s some work from my last released game, Flintlock. It kinda flew under the radar, but there is a ton of passion from a lot of people that worked on this for 5 years or so. I’d recommend checking everyone’s posts on ArtStation! www.artstation.com/maxbainbridge #gamedev #gameart #rpg
neutral · AI labelView post →Just grabbed this game for $5 from a key site. Glad I didn't pay more. The game itself seems pretty decent......HOWEVER; The developer has shown zero respect to consumers by shipping a game riddled with so much shader compilation stutter, and never returning to add a shader pre-compilation step post launch. It's honestly baffling how a recent title using Unreal engine could ship like this. It ruins immersion every single time a new effect etc is introduced, which is often, because the game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this games feels like a "oops we run out of budget for the writers" the gameplay is solid and quite fun for an AA game but the story and dialogue are serviceable at best with some story line just happens without explanation, if you got this in a bundle or a sale for cheap, i could see you liking it but it was not worth the full price
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Flintlock’s release anniversary is coming up this week, so here’s some Enki love. I’ll never forget working on this game. I met amazing people, found my crowd. Behind each game lies the story of game developers, going through years of life and change together. #gamedev #enki #flintlock #nzgamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →As much as it pains me giving Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn a negative review, I still feel compelled to voice my honest, unembellished opinion – which is that, with the exception of a few neat ideas and imagery, this game feels like by-the-numbers Souls-lite game and I'm sorry, in 2020s that's not going to cut it anymore. The heart of the game – the combat mechanics – are your standard array of light attacks, hard attacks, dodges, block, parry. Oh, you also have a pistol with limited shots…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do not listen to nonsensence of Haters..I played Sekiro and Darksouls 3..After that ..This is the one the underrated one..♥♥♥♥ Elden Ring..Far better than Elden Ring... Try Different...What not this game does nt have.. 1.New level of combat..One should ever try...dark souls having guns 2.Beautiful graphics 3.Extrodinary VFX.. 4.Exploring different Culture....
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has a lot of interesting ideas. I'd love to play a Soulslike with an open world, soaring movement and an interesting world. Unfortunately, things fall short at a fundamental level. The combat is dull, the world feels uninteresting to traverse. It ends up less like a junior Elden Ring and more like an undercooked Forspoken.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I gave this game two tries over the past six months. While I genuinely like the setting, the overall experience feels cluttered and unfocused. There’s simply too much unnecessary “junk” that gets in the way of enjoying the core gameplay. The movement and animations are also a major issue. The jumping animation feels especially off: it looks as if the character is almost frozen mid-air while falling. Landing on objects often results in awkward, unnatural sliding, which really breaks…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I came for the unique soul-like mechanics, but left because of the railroaded story. It feels like the game is holding your hand to the next story beat every step of the way.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"𝒜 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓉𝒶𝓁, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒶 𝒢𝑜𝒹" ----------------------------------------- 🖥️ Flintlock: The Siege Of Dawn 📸 In-game photomode #virtualphotography #vprepost #flintlockthesiegeofdawn
neutral · AI labelView post →Hounded is a dog-adventure game set in a Flintlock Fantasy world gripped by tyranny. You are Duke, a young Border Collie who is searching for their lost master. Hounded by a cunning hunter, can you track the scent, unearth the power of The Tide and find your way home? #PitchYaGame
neutral · AI labelView post →New Youtube is up! Jinx Plays: Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn first part of a long play through! youtu.be/G7ptFBZv5Ig?... #games #Vtuber
neutral · AI labelView post →Flintlock had a good idea, but not enough substance to go on. I LOVED the gun/axe combo of fighting, and the ways you can move around. But that is it. The maps are empty and boring, enemies are repetitive and way too easy to beat in most cases, so the game usually just sends a horde of them your way. Only a few of the enemies are actually a fun challenge, but everything else has two moves that are repeated on cycle. Quests are very short and not interesting - bring back item or kill…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A hodgepodge of last year. We went to San Francisco to present Flintlock, had beautiful Enki and Nor controllers made for it. This is also my dog's first game credit (he was basically raised at the office, farting in meetings and finding long lost items). #gamedev #nzgamedev #flintlock #officedog
neutral · AI labelView post →Coming to Game Pass -Dredge -Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 -Dungeons of Hinterberg -Flintlock -Metal Slug Tactics -Revenge of the Savage Planet -TMNT: Mutants Unleashed -Warhammer: Vermintide 2 -DOOM: The Dark Ages -Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo -Firefighting Sim: The Squad -Police Sim: Patrol Officers
neutral · AI labelView post →Game has massive frame rate drops even after two years do not buy game is basically unplayable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the first time I heard the term "Souls-lite". If you die, you lose your reputation, but you have one chance to reclaim it at the spot where you died. If you die again before reclaiming it, the reputation is gone. Also, when earning reputation from killing enemies, you need to claim it. Or else it will VANISH. Seba board game is an easy way to farm reputation. Thanks Baz. The defense turn feels much easier since the AI seems kinda dumb. Side quests aren’t too many, yet they're worth…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Flintlock is at 75% for 1100 reviews and its a way better game than that. It's everything A44 did in Ashen turned up to 11.
positive · AI labelView post →An Expected Joy. I am not sure how this game passed me by. I genuinely hadn't heard of this time last week and it was only because I saw a short clip on social media that intrigued me enough to take a look and I am glad that I did. When a game is marked as a souls-like/lite, I never really know where it is going to land and for those of you, I've played a lot of them and this trends more towards God of War, than Dark Souls. I played through on normal, and it was fine, a little tough at…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Flintlock isn't all bad, but it is bad. The general aspect of the game, environment, characters, storylines, ect... are pretty good \ ok. The fight system is great, for the bosses... The rest of the time it's baaaaadd. Lock on system is very annoying in multi-enemies scenario. The enemies are unbalanced, i've one shot every boss except for one or two, but some areas are just crazy hard for no reason, mobs will pile on you very quickly, some attacks have a very short reaction time making…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Strange game, takes DNA from lots of action games and blends in a way that works more often than not. Can't recommend the hard difficulty ("Possessed"), the game's mechanics do not hold up to the precision and timing needed to succeed. I struggled to like the game during the first couple hours, but once I switched it to Normal difficulty, the fun of the gameplay started to be more apparent. By the end of the game, I could chain together parries and gun attacks and companion attacks in way…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My game highlights this year were: ● Jusant ● Chants of Sennaar ● The Case of the Golden Idol ● Cocoon ● Flintlock: Siege of Dawn ● Slay the Princess
positive · AI labelView post →Overall a decent game. Gameplay is fun, story/world is alright, game itself was stable. It has the souls-like gameplay but I feel like comparing this to a souls game is like comparing Avowed to Skyrim. I took my time with the story, exploring a lot and collecting everything I can. Still working on it, but pretty much have the game wrapped up with 12 hours on the board, which I am liking because I want more games where I can pick it up, experience it, then feel like I can move on without leaving…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn describes itself as a "Souls-lite," but I actually think that label does the game a disservice. "Souls-lite" is already a vague term, and I suspect it set expectations that the game was never trying to meet. Instead, I'd describe Flintlock as a story-driven action RPG with light open-world elements. You'll explore contained regions, complete quests, hunt collectibles if that's your thing, and follow a focused narrative rather than getting lost in an enormous…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly such a hidden gem. Nor and Enki are awesome, and so much fun just to run around and fight with because the game emphasises movement and cinematic combat. It's pretty forgiving and maybe not what you'd expect from a traditional Souls-like, which I would say is a positive (unless you just like being punished). I'm probably mid-late in the story right now and with the build I've got, I feel pretty confident just blasting my way through a horde or a boss fight, and as a person who usually…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm playing **Death Howl** this week. It's a turn based Soulslike grid-based strategy deckbuilder (quite possibly the biggest genre salad I've played so far). It's been okay so far. *Love* the art, it's got a beautiful minimalistic but expressive pixel art in a very distinctive muted color palette. The story so far is fairly mediocre. It's okay but it's very obviously a story of a mother's journey towards accepting the death of her child, with every major area of the game representing one stage…
neutral · AI labelView post →there's very few things actually wrong with the game, but I also can't point out anything exceptional or memorable about it. In a few years, the only thing I will remember about it is that I didn't quite finish it, bc the game kept crashing during the final boss (which, in fairness, was the only major technical issue I experienced)
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →SCORE: ★★★☆☆ THE BREAKDOWN +Well-paced and doesn't outstay its welcome, with nice variety in gameplay for its runtime +Compelling aesthetics, with a good number of unique environments and NPC designs +A good mix of weapons enabling multiple playstyles +Interesting and varied boss designs that feel like major battles +Extremely fun traversal and shortcut mechanics while exploring -Missing a lot of polish, doesn't look good enough to run this poorly -Animations are stiff enough that reading…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →𝓔𝓷𝓴𝓲 🦊💜 🖥️ Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn 📸 In-game photomode --------------------------------------------------- #Flintlockthesiegeofdawn #virtualphotography #thephotomode #vprepost
neutral · AI labelView post →Never have I ever ..had such a hard time giving a game a recommendation, and although I’m giving this a thumbs up, I'll explain my neutralness by giving you 3 reasons for and against purchasing Flintlock and letting you, dear player, decide on your own. 3 reasons to avoid FLINTLOCK Sebo - A startling number of NPCs are down to play some Sebo.. and I get it: the devs are trying to instill the sense of an expansive, lived-in world by implementing an addictive mini game similar to the S…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No one asked, but: Game: Flintlock: Siege of Dawn Book: The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis
neutral · AI labelView post →So, I was playing Flintlock the game on Xbox yesterday and looked at the reviews, it has a 2.6 because of review bombing because it has a black female main character, I hate people like that, I spent the rest of the night and I reported every review that mentioned DEI or woke.
positive · AI labelView post →- Enemies magnetizing to you from few meters when attack - Block doesn't cancel going animation + has own animation - Most of unblockable attacks are AOE - EVERY attack is slow charging and insta-hit, and I still don't understand where there is parry window. I parried Lies of P, Sekiro, Expedition 33. But here is NO readable animations. - Some enemies indicate unblocable attack at the end of charging animation. Lol this is completely mockery. How to play this ♥♥♥♥? It's almost random mixups of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The devs clearly needed to play more Dark Souls games before trying to make their own, because they clearly have 0 understanding of how to properly implement dodge mechanics, parry mechanics, block mechanics, straffing mechanics, and so on. I've never seen a soulslike where it is a Bad idea to move, at all, during combat with an enemy. The optimal way to fight just about any enemy is to sit still, let them come to you, let them swing at you, then either parry or shoot depending on if it is an…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →S/O to black protagonist and especially black women protagonist in games. Deathloop, Forspoken (that game got way too much hate), South of Midnight, Flintlock
neutral · AI labelView post →The setting and aesthetic are peak, but I feel like the combat is really inconsistent. Usually pistol interrupts work, but sometimes they don't. Sometimes you have i-frames when you dodge, sometimes you don't. I wanna recommend, but honestly can't.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Surely Hollow Knight is a full-on Soulslike? What is lite about it? Doesn't it have both the difficult combat, punishing design *and* upgrade currency lost on death/enemy respawn on checkpoint activation? Personally I am not fussed about distinguishing between Soulsborne and Soulslike, but I do think the Soulslite moniker is useful - increasingly so as more games come out that are souls inspired but not true Soulslikes. I haven't played enough of them to have any favourites though, I was sort…
neutral · AI labelView post →Probably an alright game but the combat feels too sloppy for a soulslike. Also having attacks that can only be avoided with a skill that has charges isn't a good idea. It feels like it has a lot of the same problems as Jedi Fallen Order, it just doesn't know what it wants to be. If it was a 3rd person action RPG in a more traditional sense I think it'd be a more enjoyable game overall.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i picked this up for three reasons: 1. ashen was better than most people gave it credit for, it was flawed but had a lot of potential and i was hoping that A44's next game would be a step up 2. i just finished avowed, another AA-tier rpg in a fun fantasy world with guns that had a bizarrely low review score considering how incredible it is 3. i'm always looking for new fun movement mechanics in games, and this game is sold as having those. unfortunately, none of those three things turned out…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Characters. Characters that pop off the screen, coming to life. Top-notch voice acting, excellent fight choreography, a truckload of charm and finesse in the world building; this game has it all... except enough of itself. I liked the ending, but man do I wish there was more before it came. My singular gripe is that, aside from achievement hunting, there just isn't enough of this game for me to appreciate after I fell in love with it. Sequel pls. Sequel now.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun game idk what all the pitching is about. If you want Elden Ring or Dark Souls or God of War then go play those games. This is a really fun mix of those games
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →
Posts are quoted from public profiles with links to the original. Want yours removed? Contact us.
