Remnant: From the Ashes
78
★ /10
Nintendo Switch, 
PC, 
PS4, 
Xbox One
THQ Nordic
Where to buy
Remnant: From the Ashes is a 2019 third-person shooter developed by Gunfire Games and published by Perfect World Entertainment, released August 20, 2019 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, with a Switch port in March 2023. It holds Metacritic scores of 78 (PC), 77 (PS4), and 81 (Xbox One) and sold over 3 million copies by the end of 2021 — the game that proved “Dark Souls with guns” was a genre waiting to happen, not a punchline.
Its structure borrows Souls bones — checkpoints, dodge-rolls, punishing bosses, trap-laden exploration — then swaps the sword-first combat for gunplay and layers on a hook of its own: dynamically generated worlds that reroll layouts, events, and even which bosses you meet.
Technical Specifications
| Attribute | Details |
|---|---|
| Developer | Gunfire Games |
| Publisher | Perfect World Entertainment |
| Release | August 20, 2019 (PC, PS4, Xbox One) · March 2023 (Switch) |
| Metacritic | 78 (PC) · 77 (PS4) · 81 (Xbox One); Switch port “mixed” |
| Sales | 3+ million (by Dec 2021) |
| DLC | Swamps of Corsus · Subject 2923 |
| Genre | Third-person shooter, Soulslike |
| Mode(s) | Single-player · 3-player co-op |
The Root and the Worlds
Earth has fallen to the Root, a tree-like interdimensional invader; as one of humanity’s last survivors, the player travels from the last-bastion of Ward 13 through crystal gateways into a string of alien worlds — desert Rhom, jungle Yaesha, and beyond — hunting a way to strike the Root’s heart. Each campaign is procedurally assembled from handcrafted chunks: two players can face different dungeons, side quests, and boss rosters in the “same” story, and rerolling a completed campaign for new configurations is the intended endgame loop.
Reception
Critics landed on “generally favorable”: IGN’s 8/10 caught the consensus — a beautifully deranged apocalypse with boss victories worthy of its Souls inspirations, undercut by an underwhelming gear system and difficulty spikes clearly tuned for co-op. The patientgamers-style community verdict has aged the same way: superb three-player runs, a thinner solo experience, and boss design that leans too often on adds swarming the arena — the exact complaints the sequel was built to answer. Two DLCs (Swamps of Corsus, Subject 2923) expanded the campaign before Gunfire moved on.
Where to Play It Today
Remnant: From the Ashes is on Steam, Epic, PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch — the Complete Edition with both DLCs routinely drops under $10, and co-op remains active. The Switch port works but reviewed noticeably weaker; on any other platform, this remains one of the best cheap co-op campaigns in the genre.
