“Absolver puts players behind the mask of a Prospect, who has taken a sacred vow and chosen to join the Absolvers, an elite corps of combatants fighting to maintain stability in the world. Prospects ...

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There are two main things to know about Absolver: it's visually gorgeous, and its combat will ask more of you than most other games would dare. The game’s “combat deck” system lets players stack up ...

Sifu is, in a few ways, a bit of an unlikely follow-up to Absolver. Slocalp, the French team behind the unique martial arts fighting game Absolver, is moving away from online games with its next ...

When Absolver opens, the player character puts on a mask. The mask is featureless, and apparently binding—a magical means of tying the protagonist to a new identity and task. They are to become a ...

I hesitate to call Absolver a fighting game. There’s nothing flashy, showy, or particularly fantastical about it; it’s just a character action game with incredibly strong presentation ad a brutal, ...

Absolver is a game about martial arts, but it also follows many of the philosophies inherent to martial arts — especially the concept of focus. Developed by Sloclap, a team composed of former Ubisoft ...

Almost every action game has melee combat. I’ve mashed on the square button thousands of times while playing God of War to mindlessly rip through enemies,. It’s satisfying on a very basic level, but ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. When I demoed Absolver at E3 2016, the control I had over how I fought was the most impressive part of the game. You personalize your character by ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's rare to find a three-dimensional fighting game where weapons aren't a core part of the ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. There's no other game quite like Absolver. Parisian indie developer, Sloclap, has defined it as an online melee action game, which is appropriate but ...