Pyre REVIEW - The Game SuperGiant Made Before Hades

Hades is brilliant, and Hades 2 just released into early access... But before Zagreus charmed the gaming sphere SuperGiant released another beautifully polished and quite unique game for the PlayStation 4 and PC.

Like many people, I missed it when it came out. I've remedied that now.

-- Pyre was purchased directly from Steam for the sake of this review --

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About the Gaming Arcadia review & rating system:

There is no perfect way to condense reviews down to a score. BUT scores can still serve a purpose, they can still convey a lot of information in a tiny frame. Our ratings try to consider the vision and ambition of a game, and how well it delivers. Scope & Execution.

Scope - Letter-graded, A-F

A - Typically the AAA budget blockbuster, aiming to be the best what it does - Be it a huge open world packed with content, a cinematic action game that spares no expense on presentation, or anything else. Big games

B - Still aiming to be the best at what it does, but with a tighter scope

C - Still likely to be a moderately sized team effort, but not so lavish on production value and not pushing boundaries

D - Smaller, tightly focused project.

E - Small-small, perhaps quite singular in focus

F (U?) - There is no discernible ambition. Troll project

S - Unicorn. A game that sincerely attempts to push above & beyond anything we've seen (ie Star Citizen, but real)

The scope will broadly align with the budget of the game, but it isn't a direct correlation - it's more an in-exact way to represent how ambitious the game is. There's no shame or shade in a game having a tight scope, so this really isn't a scale of 'good to bad'.

Execution - Numeric scale, 0-100

100 is perfect execution in everything the game attempts.

We use the full scale, not the weird 65-96 scale you may see elsewhere. There isn't an exact science to the score, but we feel it is important to recognise and reward the things a game does well (it can be surprisingly easy to overlook those when you are trying to critique)!

"Must play!" - We never tell you whether you should buy a game or not. Everyone's preferences, priorities and circumstances are their own. We're here to tell you about the game, not dictate your finances.

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