Thymesia Launches on PC and Consoles
Today marks the debut of Thymesia, a soulslike title drawing inspiration from Bloodborne and Sekiro. The title will be made available soon.
Thymesia, a new soulslike published by Team17, debuts today. The work of OverBorder Studio will be available on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch.
On Steam and GOG Thymesia will be unlocked soon, but we still don't know the price of the game's PC release. On PS5, XSX/S and Switch (cloud version) the game is offered at a 20% discount until August 24.
Thymesia - system requirements
Minimum requirements
- Operating system: Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5 / AMD Ryzen 5
- RAM: 8 GB
- Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 950 / Radeon HD 7970
- Disk space: 16 GB
Recommended requirements
- Operating system: Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i7 / AMD Ryzen 7
- RAM: 16 GB
- Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 / Radeon RX 580
- Disk space: 16 GB
Thymesia in a nutshell...
Thymesia is the debut of OverBorder, and in principle it is a typical representative of the genre. We have a fallen kingdom roamed by terrible monsters, and a hero trying to reverse or at least mitigate the effects of a great catastrophe.
There's also challenging TPP combat (and with the use of... biological weapons), as well as more than one ending and decisions to make that will lead us to different versions of the finale.
... and in reviews
Thymesia is a solid, but decidedly not outstanding game. Besides, it's hard to expect that a small debuting team will immediately compete with the works of FromSoftware, especially since at first glance one can see signs of a modest budget - for example, the lack of dubbing (any dubbing - the characters don't even speak English).
This budgetness, moreover, can be seen in reviews. The game's current rating on Metacritic (the so-called Metascore) is - depending on the platform - 69-73/100 and more or less such marks were given by most reviewers. Journalists praise the combat system and visuals, but complain about the recycling of locations and enemies, as well as the clearly visible untapped potential (including story).
As a result Thymesia is not so much the slayer, but rather a poor relative of Bloodborne's and - perhaps even more so - Sekiro.
