Dragon Age: The Veilguard User Score Plummets To 2.5 Amid Intense Backlash

Expert Verified By

Players Infuriated Over Politics!

Story Highlight
  • Dragon Age: The Veilguard has received hundreds of negative user reviews on Metacritic.
  • These reviews criticize the excessive DEI focus, poor dialogue, and weak combat.
  • The game is still performing well in terms of player counts on various platforms.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard has become quite an interesting release. On the one hand, this title boasts impressive critic reviews and stands as BioWare’s biggest day-one release on Steam. However, on the other hand, players seem split over the RPG.

Many have criticized the game for pushing DEI far too much, while others have found the RPG deviating from Dragon Age’s history. In the aftermath, the game’s overall user score on Metacritic has plummeted as low as 2.5/10.

Why it matters: BioWare’s latest offering has found itself in a sticky situation. The game seems to have alienated many original fans with decisions about the art style, story, and more.

Dragon Age The Veilguard
There’s A Huge Discrepancy Between The User And Critic Score

Over on Metacritic, the game has received more than 700 negative reviews already. Of the 915 total user ratings, only about 165 are positive.

Multiple negative reviews point to the inclusion of politics and DEI in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. For context, the game features instances of characters speaking out against misgendering.

The character designs have also attracted plenty of criticism. Other reviews point to poor dialogue, weak narrative writing, and a subpar combat system. All combined, these criticisms have led to a major divide between the critics and the players.

Dragon Age The Veilguard
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Reviews via Metacritic

Still, it is important to note that these elements don’t make the game a 0/10 or a 1/10 like many of the ratings would have you believe. Dragon Age: The Veilguard has plenty of positives, including its polished PC port.

Given the many controversies, it will be interesting to see how reactions to the RPG evolve over the week. For now, Dragon Age: The Veilguard seems to be doing quite well on Steam and other platforms.

What are your thoughts on the user score? Let us know in the comments, and join the Tech4Gamers Forums to continue the discussion.

Was our article helpful? 👨‍💻

Thank you! Please share your positive feedback. 🔋

How could we improve this post? Please Help us. 😔

Join Our Community

Still having issues? Join the Tech4Gamers Forum for expert help and community support!

Latest News

Join Our Community

104,000FansLike
32,122FollowersFollow

Trending

GTA 6 Realism Will “Blow People Away” Says Former Rockstar Dev

A former Rockstar developer has set high expectations for GTA 6, arguing that it will blow people away by the sheer realism on display.

Monster Hunter Wilds: RTX 4090 Fails To Achieve 60FPS In Demo At 4K Native Max Settings

As per a recent analysis, Monster Hunter Wilds demo can't achieve 60FPS at the native 4k resolution with max settings.

Intel Generated $13.3 Billion In Revenue But Lost $16.6 Billion

Intel is slowly recovering but is still losing money in the long run, and it plans to cut down on losses further.

Wolverine Development Reportedly Moving Smoothly Despite Losing Director

A new report outlines the ongoing development of Marvel's Wolverine despite recent reports of the Creative Director's departure.

Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered Launched To Just 2.5K Players on Steam

Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered looks like a failure as the game peaked with only a few thousand players with mixed reviews on Steam.