Gothic 1 Remake

For me, the Gothic Remake is the ultimate gaming highlight of 2026—the refinement of a classic and a sheer delight for action-RPG fans! Only technical flaws and a somewhat overly deferential adherence to the source material detract from this fan dream come true.

Gothic 1 Remake is a rough yet refreshing return to an older style of role playing game. Dated quest design, awkward combat and a frustrating economy hold it back, while its hostile world, meaningful exploration and refusal to guide the player make the Colony feel genuinely dangerous. Few modern RPGs are willing to make the player feel this small, and that courage makes the journey worth taking.

Gothic is an idiosyncratic and sometimes stale remake, with a multitude of technical issues. Yet the purity and strength of the original game’s vision shines through.

Alkimia has delivered a game that captures the strengths of its predecessor, led by a brilliantly constructed world and the brutal harshness of life in the Mining Valley. Defying contemporary trends, Gothic Remake doesn’t hold the player’s hand and rewards them with a great sense of satisfaction as they make progress. It’s just a shame that we’ve ended up with a game plagued by so many bugs.

Gothic Remake stays true to its old-school roots, rewarding patience while punishing mistakes. Still a bit rough (around the edges) but rewarding for those willing to embrace its unforgiving design.

Gothic 1 Remake is a remake that clearly shows a lot of effort went into it. However, it has remained so faithful to its roots that, rather than being a challenging action-RPG adventure, it has ended up as a game that is overly archaic, repetitive, and likely to appeal only to a specific niche of players. On top of that, with serious performance issues and bugs stemming from the Unreal Engine, it falls slightly short of expectations as a remake.

For the hardcore fans of the franchise that just wanted a 1:1 remake of the original without anything added or removed, Gothic Remake is a dream come true. But even the avid Gothic fans are not safe from the performance horrors caused by the Unreal Engine 5, and that makes the Gothic Remake not everybody’s cup of tea.

Having played the original 3 games, I was a big fan of the series. I played their first demo which was testing the waters and that had me be extremely sceptic about how the final game will be. Imagine my surprise when I jumped on to the game at launch and saw that everything that made the original gothic a masterpiece was still there and then some more. Absolutely love the game. At this point I'm at 150 hours played and on my third playthrough as a member of the third faction (swamp camp). Highly recommend the game to anyone looking for a fun, satisfying and immersive adventure.

Un remake riuscito solo in parte, che alterna buone idee a problemi tecnici molto gravi. Da un lato il lavoro di aggiornamento si vede e il gioco rimane comunque piacevole da giocare, dall’altro la quantità di bug compromette pesantemente l’esperienza complessiva. Gli sviluppatori sembrano concentrarsi soprattutto sulla correzione di exploit come duplicazioni di denaro o sistemi di progressione “rotte”, ma trascurano glitch interni molto più gravi che impattano direttamente sulle missioni principali.Alcune quest possono rompersi in modo irreversibile: ad esempio, consegnare un oggetto a un NPC prima di determinati passaggi può bloccare l’intera fazione, costringendo addirittura a ricominciare da capo. Anche durante fasi avanzate della storia si verificano bug che impediscono il completamento di obiettivi cruciali, rendendo necessaria la ripartenza totale della partita con perdita di decine di ore di progresso. A questo si aggiungono problemi con il sistema di salvataggio rapido su PlayStation, poco reattivo e spesso in ****, oltre a prestazioni generali instabili e insolitamente **** punto di vista del gameplay, alcune scelte risultano interessanti: l’assenza di indicatori di missione costringe a esplorare e imparare la mappa, che però è molto piccola, quasi limitata. La varietà di armi è discreta e la difficoltà è estremamente elevata, al punto che la sfida stessa diventa uno dei principali motivi per continuare a giocare. Senza questo fattore, probabilmente molti abbandonerebbero il **** complesso è un’esperienza frustrante ma anche particolare, quasi “punitiva” nel suo design, che può risultare affascinante per chi cerca una sfida dura. Tuttavia, i problemi tecnici sono troppo gravi per essere ignorati: il voto finale non può superare il 7 soprattutto perché alcuni bug possono compromettere completamente una partita da decine di ore.

Il gioco in se é molto bello il problema è che é fatto malissimo, troppi bug frustranti che rovinano l'esperienza. Grande peccato .

Full of glitches, bugs and technical issues. Storyline doesnt make sense. Since Chapter 4 boring as hell. You are just killing over and over the same monsters running around the same 2 locations.

Pros: - Feels very close to the original Gothic - The Colony still feels dangerous and immersive - Chapter 1 is genuinely great and gave me hope this would become one of the best RPG remakes ever made - Character progression is satisfying at first - Some locations are beautifully recreated. Early game captures that classic Gothic feeling of being a weak nobody trying to survive. - Viusals are too rough, after adjusting brightness, contrast and saturation, visuals improve a lot. Prepare! Cons: - Chapters 1 Lies To You. After that everything slowly falls apart. By the end I wasn’t sure if I was playing an RPG or a psychological experiment. Lock-picking - : ) (Hold my Beer) Delivery Simulator 2026* - After Chapter 1 the game becomes a full-time delivery simulator. Camp → Cave → Camp → Cave → Camp → repeat until insanity. NPCs send you across the entire map for few dialogue lines. I felt like a trained monkey doing errands for quest progression. Sometimes it felt like devs were testing patience or whether anyone finishes the game. NPC Hide and Seek - Half the game is searching for NPCs. Just hunting some idiot stuck behind a guard or turned into a living statue for cave spiders, or just gone missing in the world logic. Sometimes the hardest boss is literally finding the NPC. Combat & Movement - Constantly getting stuck on tiny objects. A single stick can be deadlier than an orc. Character sometimes climbs random objects instead of input or goes other way. - Enemy attacks sometimes ignore blocks or roll dodges. Damage feels inconsistent. Enemy patterns can chain multiple smash attacks without pause then they repeat their **** again and 1s pause oh finally maybe I can do 1 hit - Temple Guards punish almost anything Difficulty Balance Early game: hard but fair Mid game: too easy Late game: pure suffering. Difficulty curve falls down a staircase and dies. Goblin cave was a warning: getting two-shot while melee is useless Last Chapters are truly something - First collect golem hearts. Then collect Ulu-Mulu orc weapon monster parts. Defeat orc bosses in the temple for 5 gems. - Back to Xardas, then go to water mages and upgrade your sword. Then enter sleeper temple again. Then kill monsters and guards again yayyy! Then kill demon. Then even more demons. Then defeat final demon. Repeat until soul leaves body. :3 BTW Temple Guards are harder than demons. Funny is that demons look like straight outta Doom game. Whole section feels like mandatory overtime instead **** finale. Grinding - Forced to fight underleveled or overpowered enemies. Otherwise farm scavengers or wolves for hours. - Character hits like wet cardboard without grind. - Did scavenger mount quest just to stop running everywhere like a madman before teleport runes. Bugs - Way too many quest bugs. Did they even test this game? - Digger from delivery quest became personal stalker, respawning constantly. Got rid of Mud, got even worse replacement - Quests refuse to progress. Reloading saves often required. Entire quests sometimes repeated. Sometimes you just pray it works - NPCs randomly disappear - Camps sometimes become hostile for no reason - NPCs fight each other randomly - Dialogue feels artificial at times - Characters act like they have memory loss. Thorus sometimes acts like I was never part of their camp - NPCs schedules worse than original Gothic. Some NPCs sleep at 8-10 am. - Merchants lack ore and items - Sleeping doesn’t restore HP - Swamp Camp is a navigation nightmare, had to ask novices like I was in coma for 10 years. - Swamp islands everywhere, easy to fall into mud. - Lighting feels overexposed, like the world is burning your eyes. Felt like Edward from Twilight stepping into sunlight. Some areas have near-white ground from over-brightness. Despite strong art direction, presentation can look washed out, overly bright or dark, and strange gray. Original was yellowish less dark. Feels like permanent chromatic aberration, grain, post-processing is always on. After tweaking settings it improves, but base look is inconsistent and rough - Final demon is rough enough already. Hands start chasing you from the ground like horror cardio. Sleeper dream sequences feel unnecessary and unfriendly. Ending feels weird, sad, and annoying at the same time. Instead of satisfaction, I just wanted it to end. Several times I was close to uninstalling. ***Final Verdict*** Chapter 1: 7.5/10 Chapters 2-4: 6.5/10 Chapters 5-6: 3/10 Final Score: 4/10 Starts as faithful remake. Slowly turns into delivery simulator, grind, bugs, NPC hunt and frustration. The closer you get to the end, the more it feels like you’re fighting the game itself instead of the world. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I didn’t beat the game, I escaped it after end. Note: Game barely runs on consoles, crashing a lot 15-30 fps, deleting saves and some folks give it 10 out of 10. Wow