PlayStation 4 Critic Reviews

Dark Eclipse is inarguably difficult to learn, but once you are over that hump the game is simply spectacular. Just because you don’t understand everything right out of the gate doesn’t mean that deep and thoughtful design isn’t present. There is real depth of strategy here, and the fun visuals are just the icing on the cake. I’m hoping that the audience that has currently found Dark Eclipse sticks with it (and continues to grow), because this is a great game that deserves to thrive.

Dark Eclipse has a good foundation, with a good outlook for the future.

The idea of a PSVR MOBA game seemed unnecessary, but Sunsoft executed it without a hitch with Dark Eclipse. They made a case for how to do MOBA correctly in VR, as well as how to make MOBA fun in the medium. If they can populate it with more players, then the experience would be even better. Otherwise, you’re going to be getting a single-player experience that taunts you with the idea of multiplayer fun.

A good free-to-play MOBA for PS4 and a really good VR game.

Dark Eclipse is a fairly simple strategy game that is improved by being in VR and the free to play aspects aren't too problematic either. This is worth checking out if you want to do something different to the usual space/horror/turret-shooter games on PSVR.

To fully exploit its potential, however, Dark Eclipse needs a close-knit community and constant support from developers, with the aim of changing the gaming offer and guaranteeing a quick matchmaking for online matches.

Dark Eclipse works well enough, but the mixture of MOBA and RTS elements means it feels watered-down and lacking a firm identity. In addition, the lack of a large community of online players presents a problem for an online-focussed title. For a free to play title, it is solid, and worth considering for RTS fans.

I also had some of the usual online play issues during my time with Dark Eclipse: Matchmaking sometimes took more than 3 minutes, and the occasional dropped session that ends a match prematurely. Such issues will hopefully be ironed out for Season 1. But for those who want to try another genre, or mashup to be more specific, and think they might like a slower game where players take their time to implement a strategy, than Dark Eclipse is worth a look.

If we can respect the will to propose something new, Dark Eclipse does not seem deep enough and satisfying enough to popularize the MOBA genre on PSVR, anyway, a kind of game not very suitable for virtual reality.

The first MOBA game for the PSVR is quite the disappointment. The controls are awkward, the grinding nature of the gameplay is a chore and the overall result is a tedious game that only hardcore fans of MOBA games might appreciate.