Godbreakers: PS5 Review

Developed by To The Sky

Published by Thunderful Publishing
Platform: PS5

Roguelike has become quite the buzzword for games in 2025.

While the likes of Ball X Pit has taken up a lot of gamers' brain space, there are others like Godbreakers, which focus on a different style of game but offers up equally as many thrills.

When humanity is identified as the cause of the planet's potential demise, three supernatural beings appear offering one last chance for survival. The job? Roam various biomes, hacking and slashing anything around, absorbing its power and using it against them and gradually ensuring that all life will survive.

Whether it's playing solo or co-op in groups of four, Godbreakers isn't really about anything massively deep but more about fluid actions and smooth execution of the game. And it's here that it excels. With characters that are blocky and enemies that are more like blobs initially, the game could easily be written off as too simplistic and dismissed as being a once-over-lightly game.

Yet what appears from Godbreakers is how responsive the game is to fighting sequences and how fluid ir can be as an experience. Mixing light and heavy attacks, the method is very familiar to anyone who's played a Dark Souls or practically any kind of fighter recently. 

But with a chance to absorb the enemy's powers as they become low in health and then use it against them and others, Godbreakers mixes the kind of sentiment of a hack and slash with the old Commodore 64 title The Sentinel.

Boss fights aren't exactly easy, but the learning curve more than serves to show that it's worth the challenge of the game itself. And patience is rewarded with timing and hack and slash abilities the gameplay is the main idea, rather than just simply getting to a certain point.

It's a compelling and intriguing mix and while simplicity sometimes is the key to execution, Godbreakers revels in its more basic combat edges to ensure players have a great experience. That won't be for everyone, but if you're willing to forego the focus on that, what Godbreakers offers is a lot of fun.