PC User Reviews

Tyranny is an exceptional game that deserves paradox's full attention to truly grow into the potential fan favorite it promises to be.

Awful bland DLC/expansion. Boring, tedious and doesn't feel like it really contributes anything. And more dark gloomy places to trawl through. *sigh*. Feels about as connected to the rest of the game as Tales of the Sword Coast did to Baldur's Gate. And that was twenty *bleep*ing years ago. BG was at the forefront of a then new-ish style of computer gaming. Tyranny does not have that excuse. Should know better by now!

Bastard's Wound is just more of the same Tyranny you've already played, treading through similar narrative territory and Oldwalls raiding. While still enjoyable, it lacks ambition and doesn't reveal or expand much upon the world Obsidian have made. At some points, the DLC teases you with potential revelations about the Oldwall's history and purpose and the nature of the Bane, but unfortunately these story threads get dropped and the plot shifts back into an all too familiar story of conflict resolution between opposing factions. The added companion quests for Lantry, Barik and Verse are pretty decent though and add some interesting insight into their characters. Keep in mind that Bastard's Wound is available only in Act 2. The companion quests start in Act 2 and are resolved in Act 3. So if you've already finished the game, you'll have to replay it or reload a previous save to play this DLC.

I got lucky and installed DLC when I was playing Tyranny again in Act II, so I was able to play the new quests and locations. Anyway - the DLC is short and full of bugs. Tyranny is one of best best of RPGs issued lately but this DLC is on much lower level. It's not worth to buy it with fuil prize.

Short, overpriced, poorly marketed, and disappointing. The game doesn't even let me know it's installed, let alone how to access it. Some content *only* available in the second act, so you can't use a save just before the end. Companion quests are mostly for companions I never use, what about the rest?