Ludography
73/100
Players190 ratings
71/100
Critics11 reviews
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Metacritic43 critic reviews
72/100
Metacritic usersuser score
73/100
GameFAQsJust Right
3.65/5
Player reviews
75% positive18,548 reviews
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Playable
Runs on
Windows
Price
US$34.99

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2019 · Action role-playing · Adventure

GreedFall

GreedFall is a single-player action RPG set in a fictional world inspired by 17th-century Baroque Europe. Players take the role of a diplomat arriving on a remote island inhabited by natives with supernatural abilities, now contested by colonial factions from various nations. The game emphasizes player choice, offering combat, diplomacy, and stealth approaches to quests, with decisions affecting relationships between the island's competing factions. A prequel, GreedFall 2: The Dying World, was released in 2026.

Released
2019
Platforms
PlayStation 4PlayStation 5WindowsXbox OneXbox Series X/S
Genres
Action role-playingAdventureRole-playingStrategyVideo game with LGBT character
Developers
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Publishers
Focus Entertainment
Modes
Single-player
Perspective
Third person
Themes
ActionFantasyMystery
Country
France
Age ratings
ESRB MACB MA 15+CLASS_IND 16PEGI 18GRAC 15+USK 16CERO C
Languages
Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, English (UK), French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish (Mexico) and 1 more
Time to beat
23hmain story34hwith extras50hcompletionist

About

GreedFall is an action role-playing game developed by Spiders and published by Focus Home Interactive. The game is set in an early 18th century-styled setting and was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on September 10, 2019, and subsequently in a graphically uplifted and performance enhanced version for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on June 30, 2021.

GreedFall was met with a mixed critical reception. A prequel, titled GreedFall: The Dying World, was released on March 10, 2026.

›Story

De Sardet, a noble of the Merchant Congregation, travels to the newly colonized island of Teer Fradee to serve as diplomatic envoy to their cousin Constantin, the island's newly appointed governor. Their mission carries an additional urgency: the continent is being ravaged by a deadly plague called the malichor, and the Congregation hopes the island's exotic resources may hold a cure.

Upon arrival, De Sardet discovers the island's native people possess a supernatural connection to the land itself, and they worship a powerful being tied to the island's very essence. Caught between the invading colonial powers and the increasingly hostile natives fighting to protect their home, De Sardet must navigate fragile alliances and uncover the island's secrets while racing to find a remedy before the plague consumes everything they left behind.

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Gameplay

The player, alongside other settlers, mercenaries, and treasure hunters, explores a remote island where the locals, who are fighting off invading settlers, are protected by supernatural beings. The game includes combat, diplomacy, and stealth. The player's decisions influence and affect the game's story, as well as the relationship between the different factions established on the island. The game also supports enhanced graphical capabilities on the PlayStation 4 Pro and Xbox One X.

Story

An island paradise has been discovered by colonial forces from several distinct nations from fictional lands, but with magic and monsters. Players assume the role of De Sardet, a neutral Human who recently arrived at the island, able to ally with either the natives who inhabit the land, or any of the foreign nations competing to conquer and colonize the "new" land, while also trying to find a cure to a mysterious illness that plagues De Sardet and their homeland.

De Sardet, a noble of the Merchant Congregation, travels to the newly settled island of Teer Fradee to serve as Legate to Prince Constantin d'Orsay, their cousin and the newly appointed governor of New Serene, the Congregation's capital on the island. The Congregation hopes that the exotic environment of Teer Fradee will yield a cure for the malichor, a deadly plague spreading on the continent.

Reception

GreedFall received "mixed or average reviews" on review aggregator website Metacritic for the PC and PlayStation 4 versions based on 38 and 37 reviews respectively, while the Xbox One version received "generally favorable reviews" based on 14 reviews.

The game was nominated for "Best RPG" at the 2019 Titanium Awards, for "Game, Original Role Playing" at the NAVGTR Awards, and for "Best Message-Bearer Game", "Best Artistic Design", and "Best Game Setting" at the Pégases Awards 2020.

Awards

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Windows9 September 2019North America · Worldwide 9 September 2019
Xbox One10 September 2019Worldwide
PlayStation 410 September 2019Worldwide
Xbox Series X/S30 June 2021Worldwide
PlayStation 530 June 2021Worldwide

Editions and related releases

Expansions
GreedFall: The De Vespe Conspiracy
Editions
GreedFall: Gold Edition

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