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Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden

Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5 • 2024

Should you play it?

Hunt ghosts as two memorable characters in a story-driven Action-RPG where your decisions carry dramatic consequences. Torn between honoring your oath to the living and saving your departed partner, how far will you go for love?

What works

  • Engaging and emotional story
  • Well-written characters and voice acting
  • Polished and stable performance
  • Rewarding exploration and world-building
  • Meaningful moral choices affecting outcomes

Things to keep in mind

  • Combat can feel repetitive and clunky
  • Some backtracking and pacing issues
  • Limited enemy variety
  • Movement and traversal can be awkward
  • Some narrative and setting inconsistencies

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • God of War

  • The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut

  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

  • Days Gone

  • South of Midnight

  • Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice VR Edition

Less intimate

Games that feels like Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden but with less focus on close relationships

  • Hell is Us

  • Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning

  • The First Berserker: Khazan

  • Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon

  • Dark Light: Survivor

  • Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition

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From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Vampyr

  • Life is Strange - Episode 1

  • Life is Strange Remastered

  • Twin Mirror

  • Lost Records: Bloom & Rage

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Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Leadership.

Last update: 21/08/2026