Reviews & verdicts

Every hub on LootWiki includes a review — not a launch-day hot take, but a verdict written from the live game and revisited as patches change it. This page collects them. Scores and data below are the ones each review documents, with their sources on the linked pages.

Beast of Reincarnation

Game Freak's first AAA action RPG landed to a divided reception: Metacritic 72 from 63 critic reviews, and a 65% positive rating on Steam in its launch window. Our scored review digs into why the split exists — and who the game is actually for — while the Metacritic breakdown looks at what critics praised and what they didn't. If the verdict leaves you undecided, the length and completion data and the Game Pass answer usually settle it: it's day one on Game Pass, which changes the math entirely.

Shift At Midnight

A co-op survival horror shift-sim doesn't get a Metacritic consensus at this size, so our worth-it breakdown leans on the data that exists: the price, the free demo, player counts and how much game is actually there across its nights and endless mode. If you're deciding between buying and subscribing, the platforms page covers the Game Pass situation.

Reading the scores

A 72 on Metacritic is the most misread number in gaming: it usually means a divided critic field, not a mediocre game. That's exactly Beast of Reincarnation's situation — the review explains which camp you're likely to fall into based on how you feel about posture-and-parry combat and deliberate pacing. Meanwhile a small co-op horror title like Shift At Midnight can be a better purchase at its price than many 85-scored games are at theirs; scores only make sense next to price, time-to-beat and who you'll play with.

Our standing advice order is: play the demo where one exists (Shift At Midnight has one), check the subscription math before paying full price (both games are on Game Pass), and only then weigh the score. The review pages are built to walk you through that order.

DragonSword: Awakening · Sephiria · Sir, We Have an Orc Problem

These three hubs are systems-and-data focused and don't carry a scored verdict yet — for each, the buying question is best answered by the pages that document what the game actually is: DragonSword's FAQ and system requirements, Sephiria's beginner guide and system requirements, and Orc Problem's PC & Steam Deck page plus the supporter pack breakdown. Scored verdicts get added once a hub's review meets the same standard as the rest of its pages — not before.

How we score

Verdicts follow the same rules as everything else on LootWiki: claims come from the running game and documented sources, disagreements between sources are shown rather than averaged away, and a review that a patch has invalidated gets revisited, with the review date updated so you can tell. Advertising and affiliate links never touch a verdict — the full rules are in our editorial policy. A game we wouldn't recommend at full price stays not-recommended, whatever it costs us.