Overall, players' feedback on Remnant II is highly polarized, with many praising its gameplay mechanics, exploration, and co-op capabilities, while a significant portion of reviews express strong dissatisfaction with the story quality, optimization issues, and gameplay repetitiveness. The game is particularly commended for its customization and replayability, yet criticized for technical problems and a lack of narrative depth.
Remnant II rebuilds the soulslike around a gun. Gunfire Games keeps the genre's skeleton, punishing checkpoints, stamina-managed dodging and boss fights that demand pattern-reading, then hands players rifles instead of blades and a dual-class Archetype system deep enough to reshape a whole run. Its signature trick is procedural generation: each campaign reshuffles worlds, dungeons and even bosses, and full three-player online co-op lets a squad tackle the chaos together rather than through fleeting summons.
Critics landed warm, singling out the buildcrafting, the boss design and how convincingly ranged combat carries the formula. Players are more divided: the co-op and replayability draw consistent praise, but the thin story and rough launch-era optimisation are the recurring gripes. The verdict rewards a specific appetite. Anyone chasing deliberate solo melee tension will find it diluted here, while a group hunting a build-heavy shooter with near-endless variety gets one of the sharpest co-op takes on the Souls template.
Overall, players' feedback on Remnant II is highly polarized, with many praising its gameplay mechanics, exploration, and co-op capabilities, while a significant portion of reviews express strong dissatisfaction with the story quality, optimization issues, and gameplay repetitiveness. The game is particularly commended for its customization and replayability, yet criticized for technical problems and a lack of narrative depth.
Based on 109 reviews from playstation, steam
Remnant 2 - Before You Buy
