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WRATH: Aeon of Ruin
Developer KillPixel Games, Slipgate Ironworks
Wrath: Aeon of Ruin is a 2024 first-person shooter developed by KillPixel Games and Slipgate Ironworks and published by 3D Realms and Fulqrum Publishing. It is built on a modified version of the Quake engine, making it the first major game release on that engine in nearly 20 years. The first episode was released on Steam Early Access on November 22, 2019, and was fully released on February 27, 2024. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
305 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
53
Mixed
100 positive · 88 negative
95% range 46–60%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 100 | 88 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 6 | 1 | 99 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| Mastodon * | 1 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
1,566 of 2,222 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
54% recommend · 99 yes, 86 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 185 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (2,150 of 2,992 positive).
A major point of contention is the addition of a publisher launcher, which some say breaks the game or is unnecessary. [1][2][3][4]
Liked
Representative posts
- [3]
You royally c0cked this experience up with your sh!tty launcher that doesn't let you bypass it, despite having a worthless option that trolls you into thinking so. Morons. To run WRATH: Aeon of Ruin without the Fulqrum Launcher, you can bypass it by setting a custom launch option: 1. Open your Steam Library. 2. Right-click WRATH: Aeon of Ruin and select Properties. 3. In the General tab, find the Launch Options …
- [14]
Beautiful to look at, but getting lost killed it for me. I've just come out of playing Quake and its expansions, including Dimension of the Machine, and I've been meaning to get around to WRATH: Aeon of Ruin for ages. It had been sitting on my 'I'll play that eventually' list for quite a while, and given how much I enjoyed the dark atmosphere, level design and exploration in Quake, I thought WRATH would be right up …
- [1]
-UPDATED REVIEW- Solid boomer built on a modified Quake engine. The devs added a launcher that borked it on the Deck, where you'd have to hunt down the exe in desktop mode and add it as a non-Steam game. That's since been 'fixed', but the game still requires proton fixes to boot, which I feel doesn't qualify it for "Verfied" status. Nonetheless, I do recommend the game. I just hope they get their act together with …
- [8]
The game's title encapsulates my feelings towards it. While I do enjoy this love letter to Quake 1, there are some massive problems here. The confusing level design + the length of each level. Also too many respawns of the enemies and the silly soul tether mechanic (but you can turn it off in the options). The music being too ambient (Andrew where are the metal tracks? This game needs them!). Also the main dev …
- [10]
This game infuriates me. It looks great, it feels great and the weapons feel proper. But, oh my f'in god, the level design is awful and constantly leaves you wondering were you are supposed to be going and what you are supposed to be doing. Sprawling levels with areas that seem like they need explored but seem so large that you find yourself questioning if they are simply decor or something you might be missing. The …
Summarised from 34 of the 271 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
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WRATH: Aeon of Ruin sits at 53% positive across 188 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The initial Early Access release, though still in development, received praise in the gaming press for the graphics and level design. Following its release, the game received a mostly positive reception from gaming outlets. Rock Paper Shotgun described the game as being "a solid shooter that remembers how [90s shooters] actually played and why they worked." Gaming Bolt praised the weapon selection and fast pace of the action, and was particularly impressed by the large scope of the levels. Eurogamer's review was more mixed, praising the game's combat and atmosphere, but highlighting issues with the game's pacing and excessive length of some of its levels.
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 305 · most liked firstI now provide clean versions of "Asura's Wrath" game cutscenes (20-min) animated by Studio 4°C in 2012. - "Episode 11.5: Forging Ahead" by Shinya Ohira. - "Episode 15.5: Defiance" by Kazuto Nakazawa. Full videos + credits >> www.catsuka.com/news/2025-01...
neutral · AI labelView post →Some rare production artworks from "Asura's Wrath" game cutscene (Shinya Ohira, Studio 4°C, 2012).
neutral · AI labelView post →[Jon Cartwright voice] Did you know...Stranger than Heaven is the third game in the highly acclaimed Stranger trilogy, beginning with 2005's Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath and continuing with Final Fantasy: Stranger of Paradise.
neutral · AI labelView post →Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous is *finally done* Game came out in September of 21' and they've been updating it with stuff every few months the entire time. Maybe I can play Rogue Trader in 26 or 27
neutral · AI labelView post →One of the cleverer bits of video-game story design that always makes me smile a bit, is that in Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, the Azata's mythic theme - and only the Azata's theme - is diegetic. Like, yeah, the heroic avatar of chaotic good gets their own in-universe theme music. Fits.
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s Drunk Stream Time! I’m live now finishing up Asuras Wrath! The end of this game is insane if yall have never seen it :3
neutral · AI labelView post →Colorized portrait of an NPC from an old Wrath & Glory game, Rasvaine of the Marauders. He was unhappily conscripted from his chapter to serve as the personal body-guard to an Ordo Astartes Inquisitor mysteriously tied to his long-forgotten mortal origins. . Commissions open!
neutral · AI labelView post →We spotted another killer remaster recommendation from @gamerant.bsky.social who recently suggested we remaster Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malakai. What do you think? 🤔 gamerant.com/the-thing-no...
neutral · AI labelView post →Baldurs Gate 1 is a fantastic adventure. I just finished Baldurs Gate 1 for the first time and really enjoyed it. That's why I want to share my thoughts on. I'm acutally kina fond of the genre and love games like Pillars, KOTOR, Tyranny and already tried BG1 a couple of years ago, but I gave up after some hours (more on that later). In the meantime I finished BG3 twice, played through Owlcat's Pathfinder games and now I wanted to give BG1 another go. Story: I kinda like it, but it's definitely…
neutral · AI labelView post →You royally c0cked this experience up with your sh!tty launcher that doesn't let you bypass it, despite having a worthless option that trolls you into thinking so. Morons. To run WRATH: Aeon of Ruin without the Fulqrum Launcher, you can bypass it by setting a custom launch option: 1. Open your Steam Library. 2. Right-click WRATH: Aeon of Ruin and select Properties. 3. In the General tab, find the Launch Options field. 4. Enter the path to the game’s executable followed by `%command%`. For…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Asuras Wrath singlehandedly proves that "hype moments and aura" is enough to make an excellent video game
positive · AI labelView post →I went on the Save Your Game podcast and talked about Wrath of the Gods! A game that made me swear off point and click adventures for nearly 30 years. Check it out: open.spotify.com/episode/42G1...
neutral · AI labelView post →Japanese TV commercial for Nessa no Hoshi on PlayStation in 1997. A strange mixture of first-person adventure and fighting game? Developer B-net's only game, though several on the team would continue in game dev, working on games like Asura's Wrath #gaming #retro #fgc 🎮
neutral · AI labelView post →🔴 𝙇𝙄𝙑𝙀 𝙉𝙊𝙒 𝙊𝙉 𝙏𝙒𝙄𝙏𝘾𝙃!!! Happy Gay Wrath Month!! Game: Marvel Rivals ⏩️ www.twitch.tv/pellylicious #Twitch #Gaymer #Gay #Pride #Muscle #Pits
neutral · AI labelView post →game is great, but their new publisher decided to stick their tumor of a launcher on it. imma leave it on negative till it dies
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pathfinders! We’ve walked a long road together. Read about the years spent developing Pathfinder: Kingmaker and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous together with our community in this major article: steamcommunity.com/games/118437...
neutral · AI labelView post →game just added an entirely unnecessary launcher whos "always launch the game directly" option doesnt work, lovely. You can skip the launcher if you use wrath.exe, wrath-sdl.exe and wrath-steam.exe in the install folder. if thats annoying then you can go to the games properties in steam and set the launch option to "-one of the other exes where ever your game is installed-" %command% and the play button will launch that exe instead of the launcher. so for example i put…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered is $9.99 on US PSN buff.ly/4aexjrM also on Game Pass Standard
neutral · AI labelView post →[after reading Wrath Goddess Sing] me: *sees game with Achilles in it* ooooo damn i should check that out i love Achilles [10 mins later] me: theres not even a transfem _option_?? fuck this game 0/10 complete trash i hope the devs go bankrupt
neutral · AI labelView post →Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Wrath of the Darkhul King (2003, Game Boy Advance)
neutral · AI labelView post →Nah. Fk this game and Fk this publisher. Slipgate / 3D Realms and now whoever this Fullrum publishing are. They release a bunch of half baked rushed games early that have a host of issues and then fail to properly patch and fix every one of them. This is your business model? To not give your dev team enough time or resources to do a decent job. For every single game you released over the last year or so to feel under cooked and unfinished and to contain bugs To stop patching your games. And…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Todays game: Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch ✨🎮 #NintendoSwitch #StudioGhibli
neutral · AI labelView post →Playing Wrath of Fire Mountain first time in a few months. I love this game so much.
neutral · AI labelView post →I... Okay, so, like...I will note, the game comes pretty firmly down on "genocide = bad", even if it waffles around that point. It's not "the genocide game", that's Stellaris, you're thinking of Stellaris. .............and Kingmaker and Wrath of the Righteous.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered (X1/X) $19.99 via Xbox. ow.ly/AyMk50TGkM9 Game Pass via Xbox. ow.ly/Cz5o50TGkMb
neutral · AI labelView post →Good news: Crash Bandicoot Wrath of Cortext is still a banger game and I still want Crunch to annihilate me 🥴
positive · AI labelView post →Man I totally forgot to post them here! Here are the fugis that I made for @hulkykrow.bsky.social stream for the game "Crash Bandicoot:The Wrath of Cortex" first we have Hulky and @taggtheotter.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Broke the game on Deck by adding a trashy me-too launcher.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was going to ask if you had ever played the "bluescreen video on 3d rendered environments" point and click CD ROM game Wrath of the Gods but I just discovered holy crap the entire game is on the Web. They converted the whole thing to HTML5 it just runs in the browser www.wrathgame.com WTF
neutral · AI labelView post →- Tried launching this game after buying it in Early Access so long ago. - Was greeted with a publisher launcher. - Clicked "just launch the game directly from now on" from the launcher. - Game crashed while loading. Complain all you want about 3DR, but at least they never shoehorned a needless launcher into their Steam releases.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Oh this is cute. Get to know me: Game edition First Game: Sonic & Knuckles 🦔 Last Game: Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous 👹 Favorite Game: Parasite Eve 🧬+ Transistor 🎙️ Worst Game: Gachas Game I've Played Most: Online? FFXIV. 💎 Offline? Mass Effect. 🪐 Most Surprising: NieR 🤖 Next Game: Octopath 2 🎱
neutral · AI labelView post →GACHA GAME FANS WILL SUFFER MY WRATH
neutral · AI labelView post →the only video game that should exist is Asura’s Wrath. we could live without the others
positive · AI labelView post →They added a launcher 2 years after the game's release, where upon clicking on the tiny, grey "Launch the game directly" button buried underneath the launcher button, the game simply simply doesn't launch. You can bypass this by going into Steam Properties -> Launch Options and copying the folder path where your .exe file is, and adding "%command%" at the end of the path, and the game will run by itself, properly. Onto the game itself: It feels more like a collectathon with randomly spawning…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I figured it out: War on the Rocks. As soon as I see WOTR, my brain thinks of Wrath of the Righteous, the Pathfinder video game.
neutral · AI labelView post →Void Knight? More like Wrath Knight, Zamorak's Chosen Inspired from a D&D character I played in a friend's game :P
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally coloured this! Irabeth Tirabade - Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. Mash up of video game and original AP art designs! #pathfinder #wrathoftherighteous #irabethtirabade
neutral · AI labelView post →Fulqrum Publishing and Slopgate Ironworks attached themselves to this game like a leech and made it horrible by adding a launcher that PREVENTS YOU FROM PLAYING THE GAME. This newer version is also detected by multiple antivirus programs as SENDING OUT MY COMPUTERS DATA TO THE PUBLISHER. This is unacceptable and a breach of privacy. Anything that Slopgate Ironworks touches turns to trash, they are a shady and corrupt company that will do anything for a quick buck. I used to like this game, but…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Wrath of Cortex is still a really meh game to me but I can't deny the soundtrack is really good
neutral · AI labelView post →The great RTS game Tempest Rising has a big The Veti's Wrath DLC announced #TempestRising #RTS #Gaming #PCGaming
neutral · AI labelView post →My first Crash game was Wrath of Cortex is that bad or something? X_X
neutral · AI labelView post →-UPDATED REVIEW- Solid boomer built on a modified Quake engine. The devs added a launcher that borked it on the Deck, where you'd have to hunt down the exe in desktop mode and add it as a non-Steam game. That's since been 'fixed', but the game still requires proton fixes to boot, which I feel doesn't qualify it for "Verfied" status. Nonetheless, I do recommend the game. I just hope they get their act together with this kinda stuff because the fans never react positively.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No, don't you know? Wrath of the Righteous, DMCV, and Dark Souls 2 are the same game.
neutral · AI labelView post →♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ publisher ruined it by suddenly requiring you to download their launcher. stop holding our games hostage. you're never getting me to install, nobody has
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Baldurs Gate 1 is a fantastic adventure. cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/35311538 > I just finished Baldurs Gate 1 for the first time and really enjoyed it. That's why I want to share my thoughts on. I'm acutally kina fond of the genre and love games like Pillars, KOTOR, Tyranny and already tried BG1 a couple of years ago, but I gave up after some hours (more on that later). In the meantime I finished BG3 twice, played through Owlcat's Pathfinder games and now I wanted to give BG1…
neutral · AI labelView post →I bought this game back when it was in early access, just after Dusk and Ion Fury made a splash on the scene. It jumped on the resurgence of boomer shooters, but the development time was prolonged. When it finally saw release, the hype for boomer shooters had passed its peak, the initial resurgence over. Doom Eternal had released, I believe, and to my eyes this significantly changed the scene. Now shooting veterans dug their claws into Ultrakill and Turbo Overkill, among other Eternal-likes.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Beautiful to look at, but getting lost killed it for me. I've just come out of playing Quake and its expansions, including Dimension of the Machine, and I've been meaning to get around to WRATH: Aeon of Ruin for ages. It had been sitting on my 'I'll play that eventually' list for quite a while, and given how much I enjoyed the dark atmosphere, level design and exploration in Quake, I thought WRATH would be right up my street. Unfortunately, after around 3 hours of playing, I've come to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Asura's Wrath is the game FFXVI wanted to be
neutral · AI labelView post →It's really great game, but very hard and quite long, it has three worlds that you go through, unlocking each one after completing the previous, the maps are huge and level design is complicated though. i completed the game at 29 hours. The game is very similar and faithful to Quake, even using the same engine. The only negative part I didn't like was the save system and the somewhat weird menu, but that's a minor issue. Overall, the game is still very good. There are two types of saving:…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Oblivion for all. The Veti's Wrath 11-mission campaign expansion launches in two days! The third faction will also be FREE to play in MP and Skirmish modes for all base game owners.
neutral · AI labelView post →The best Western setting video game of all time is Oddworld Stranger’s Wrath not RDR
neutral · AI labelView post →added a trash and annoying launcher nobody asked for.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Me, playing Asura’s Wrath, a game ostensibly about punching the shit out of things: ohhh he’s gonna super jump up to that ship isn’t he <Asura proceeds to punch the ground so hard he rebounds off it into the sky> Ah. Yes. Of course. How stupid of me to think he’d do things NORMALLY, that’s on me.
neutral · AI labelView post →Beast of the day: Avatar of Wrath ✨ An epic mystic beast from Deck Beasts, a free creature auto-battler. Play free on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5004310 #indiegame #pixelart #gamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →my hot take that's not even that hot a take if you actually played the game: Asura's Wrath does not "make you buy the ending as DLC" Asura's Wrath has a satisfying conclusion to its story, plus a teaser for more after PART IV: NIRVANA IS EFFECTIVELY THE SEQUEL WE'D NEVER GET OTHERWISE
neutral · AI labelView post →Final 2 days of Unity's Autumn Sale. If the Dialogue System for Unity or Quest Machine (used in Disco Elysium, Citizen Sleeper, The Way of Wrath, etc.) are on your list, get them for 50% off before the sale ends. assetstore.unity.com/packages/too... #unity #gamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →Random launcher. Boring.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Ironworks somehow got their filthy and worthless hands on this game. You *could* play the game through directly launching the executable and not the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ launcher, but that doesn't 100% fix the issue of it being there, because that's exactly problem: It IS there. Nobody new to steam or computers is gonna know how to do this even, and that makes this even worse because little do we all realise, there are people who technologically inept. That's who that launcher is meant for too.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wrath: Aeon of Ruin is a fast-paced shooter, labeled a boomer shooter due to its inspiration from older titles like Doom. The pixel art is fantastic and the weapons look really cool, but that’s about all the positives I could muster during my time with it. Right from the start, the game demands an annoying third-party launcher, something that is always a bad sign. The gunplay itself is very boring; every enemy feels like a health sponge, requiring a large number of bullets in a game where ammo…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Like killing bunnies with a battle axe. Remove the 3rd party launcher or i will rocketjump yer nan.
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