PC Critic Reviews

While the game's story can sometimes become too obscure for its own good, the majority of the narrative experience shouldn't be missed by adventurous gamers.

With very dense storytelling and ambiguous ending, The Old City: Leviathan is a very intriguing, non-conventional (walking-simulator) title that will leave you wondering what you experienced during your play. Its philosophical inquiries will keep on nagging, pressing for one more playthrough in the hopes of getting a clearer meaning.

The Old City has a tendency to get into your head and bones after a few hours and as this is the first of a trilogy, I’m eager to see where Leviathan will take me next.

The Old City offers a great story, and one that's at its most rewarding when approached with a literary mindset. If you're not offended by a game with an ending that raises more questions than answers, Postmod's creation delivers an experience with a noteworthy amount of restraint—and one that's begging to be revisited multiple times.

There is a very melancholic feel to The Old City: Leviathan that brings peace to any willing gamer that plays it.

The Old City is rich in evocative sets, but it's too eager to impress with its cleverness.

The Old City is an interesting though not entirely accomplished narrative experiment.

I believe the game is way too demanding of the audience and even if that’s what the developer intended in the first place, the philosophical concepts it comes up with are less suitable for a game and more appropriate to be introduced in a book.

In its best moments, The Old City: Leviathan toggles seamlessly between enchanting dreams and dark realities, tragic memories and tragic futures, and deeply touching realizations on what is actually happening. But they’re all never really meant for the player; they’re meant for the protagonist.

Putting a solid score on a game whose overriding ideology is a rejection of certainty is an act of high absurdity. But it’s also somewhat appropriate for The Old City: Leviathan’s other persistent theme of reconciling incompatible truths.