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Gothic 1 Remake

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Gothic 1 Remake is an action role-playing game set in a third-person perspective within a fantasy open world. It is a remake of the 2001 game Gothic, developed by Alkimia Interactive using Unreal Engine 5. The player controls a nameless prisoner sent into the Valley of Mines, a penal colony surrounded by a magical barrier. The game features NPC routines, faction-based quest paths, and a progression system where the player starts with no skills and must learn them from trainers.

Released: 5 June 2026
Platforms: PlayStation 5 Windows Xbox Series X/S
Genres: Action role-playing Adventure Role-playing
Developers: —
Publishers: THQ Nordic
Series: Gothic
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: Third person
Themes: Action Fantasy Open world
Country: Spain
Age ratings: ACB MA 15+ESRB M CLASS_IND 14 PEGI 18 USK 16
Languages: Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish (Spain)
Copies sold: 500,000 as of 2026-06-14
Time to beat: 19hmain story37hwith extras54hcompletionist

About

Gothic 1 Remake (or Gothic Remake) is a 2026 action role-playing game developed by Alkimia Interactive and published by THQ Nordic. It is a remake of the 2001 game Gothic, developed by Piranha Bytes. The game was released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on 5 June 2026. It received mixed reviews by critics and sold half a million units within the first week of release.

›Story

In a medieval fantasy world where humans are losing a war against Orcs, the king sentences all criminals to labor in ore mines to forge weapons. To prevent escape, twelve magicians erect a magical barrier over the mining colony, but the spell goes out of control, trapping the magicians inside and allowing the convicts to overthrow their guards. The prisoners split into three factions: the Old Camp, which trades ore with the king; the New Camp, which hoards ore to attempt destroying the barrier; and the Brotherhood, a religious group worshipping a being called the Sleeper. An unnamed prisoner is thrown into the colony carrying a letter for the Fire Mages. After joining one of the factions and uncovering that the Sleeper is actually a dangerous demon summoned by the Orcs centuries ago, the hero must find a way into the temple beneath the Orc city to confront and banish the creature, which causes the barrier to collapse and frees the colony.

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Gameplay

Gothic 1 Remake is an action role-playing game set in third-person perspective in a fantasy open world. The player controls a prisoner who is sent to a penal mining colony, called the Valley of Mines, which is surrounded by a magical barrier. As in the original Gothic, the nameless hero navigates the world without a minimap and starts without any skills. Lock picking was developed similarly to the original, but is presented differently.

Development

In May 2019, the Austrian computer game publisher THQ Nordic acquired German developer Piranha Bytes, the creators and intellectual property owners of the Gothic series. Piranha Bytes declined to develop another Gothic game, instead choosing to focus on other games such as ELEX.

The Spanish branch of THQ Nordic, THQ Barcelona, released a game demo, titled Gothic Playable Teaser, in December 2019 and began a public survey to gather feedback regarding the demo and the a potential remake of Gothic. Over 180,000 downloads of the demo were reported in March 2023 and over 30,000 responses, mostly mixed. According to THQ Nordic, over 90% of the players were in favor for a production of a remake. THQ Nordic announced the remake's production in February 2020. The playable teaser was scrapped and a "complete reboot" was green-lit based on the community feedback, which called for a remake that was closer to the original.

Reception

Gothic 1 Remake received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator website Metacritic. OpenCritic determined that 57% of critics recommended the game.

Carlo Siebenhüner of PC Games said the game surprised him positively, lauding the atmosphere the game world as exuding a "Gothic feeling" The combat system would take some time to get used to, but the atmosphere is convincing. Stephanie Schlottag of GameStar criticized the absence of features in the review version and a difficulty level that was high even by Gothic standards. However, the publication also agreed that the classic "Gothic feel" had returned. Schlottag praised the new additions as blending well into the game and the progression system as rewarding.