EarthFall

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 7 expert reviews

Excellent:

0
Good:

2
Average:

2
Bad:

3

Pros:

Great combat, Varied levels and objectives, Fun enemies, Lovely weaponry
Exciting action, Encourages teamwork, Varied missions/gameplay, Fantastic achievements
A few exciting set pieces, Drop-in multiplayer works great

Cons:

Bots are dumb, Story is just a block of text, No competitive mode, No checkpoints
Very hard, Dying at the end of level, Frustrating AI, Story buried in menus, Not fun with strangers

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Last revision on March 20, 2021

Reviewers Liked

Great combat, Varied levels and objectives, Fun enemies, Lovely weaponry
Exciting action, Encourages teamwork, Varied missions/gameplay, Fantastic achievements
A few exciting set pieces, Drop-in multiplayer works great

Reviewers Didn't Like

Bots are dumb, Story is just a block of text, No competitive mode, No checkpoints
Very hard, Dying at the end of level, Frustrating AI, Story buried in menus, Not fun with strangers
Unsatisfying combat, Bland level design, Half-hearted story and characters

Expert reviews and ratings

Earthfall is a valiant effort at trying to capture the lightning in a bottle once again that was Left 4 Dead. On paper it does a lot of things right, but in practice it lacks the soul and fire of what made Valve's iconic zombie games so effective almost...

By gamecrate.com on July 31, 2018

There might have been plenty of co-op shooters since Left 4 Dead, but few managed to wrangle the same fun, fear and frantic combat as Earthfall...

By WCCFTech on July 30, 2018

A great co-op shooter if you have enough friends to enjoy...

By Game Chronicles Magazine on July 20, 2018

Earthfall is a cooperative FPS with a few interesting ideas that it fails to deliver on. Built on a poor foundation of unsatisfying combat and repetitive mission structure, every aspect of the game is mediocre at best. With some serious retooling, its...

By gamingtrend.com on July 17, 2018

Parts of Earthfall present a certain charm, and the co-op shooting experience could certainly be fun with the right group of friends. But it's hard to get away from the fact that Earthfall is a lesser incarnation of a decade-old game, with fewer modes...

By in.ign.com on July 14, 2018

The only way to describe Earthfall is as Left 4 Dead but with extraterrestrial aliens instead of zombies.Anything else would be disingenuous, because at times Earthfall feels like a mod of Valve's seminal zombie shooter. The gunplay, feel, and even...

By Bit-tech.net on August 02, 2018

Ich hätte es wissen müssen. Ein Koop-Shooter, Aliens als Gegner, durchwachsenes Early-Access-Feedback: Earthfall spielt von Anfang an mit enorm schlechten Karten. Dabei hat der Indie-Titel durchaus nette Ideen. Die 3D-Drucker, an denen ich mir Waffen...

By gamestar.de on July 24, 2018

Il est difficile vraiment de donner un avis personnel sur ce titre, car je serais injuste de dire que le jeu ne mérite pas notre attention. Earthfall possède toutes les qualités d'un FPS coopératif mais n'apporte rien et selon moi, les joueurs méritent...

By actugaming.net on July 17, 2018