Game of Thrones: Episode Five - A Nest of Vipers

Critic reviews

• Hardcore Gamer

  Thomas Ella · Jul 27, 2015

  5.0

  The technical problems of episodes past — the variable frame rate, incessant hitching, visual glitches, etc — persist here, but at this point, we’re so used to them that it hardly feels worthy of a callout here. Mostly it’s just a bummer that A Nest of Vipers doesn’t continue the steady uptick in quality we saw over the previous two episodes, but Episode Five nonetheless proves itself a necessary step in the lead-up to the season’s conclusion next episode.

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• Gamezebo

  Tom Christiansen · Jul 24, 2015

  9.0

  With one more episode left, I’m on the edge of my seat waiting to see how things shake out. The choices I made in Episode 5 felt like some of the most important, game-changing choices I have made in the series thus far, and I imagine, and hope, that Telltale continues to deliver excellent nail-biting experiences right on through the end.

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• TechRaptor

  Andrew Otton · Jul 23, 2015

  7.0

  Telltale’s Game of Thrones story is finally coming into its own in A Nest of Vipers, distancing itself from the samey-ness of the earlier episodes. Stories are starting to have payoffs, tension is building to a big climax, and there are still a lot of mysteries to be solved and threads to finish. Telltale, as they have done every time in the past, have created a lot of potential for a pretty spectacular ending.

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• Push Square

  Graham Banas · Jul 23, 2015

  5.0

  The penultimate episode of Game of Thrones is a bit of a mess. While there's a lot of meat in this instalment, it still ends up tasting a bit bland. Between oddly behaving characters, technical issues, and poor plotting, this feels like Telltale's least inspired release in some time.

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• PS Lifestyle

  Mark Labbe · Jul 22, 2015

  8.0

  However, despite the occasionally poor animations and the poor handling of the passage of time, Telltale’s Game of Thrones: Episode 5 – A Nest of Vipers presents its players with some stressful, tough choices, and uses QTEs in an fun way. It will be exciting to see where the last episode will take House Forrester, and whether they will meet their downfall or their saving grace.

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• IGN

  Dan Stapleton · Jul 21, 2015

  6.5

  The potential of powerful, story-altering choices is largely blown on an episode full of out-of-character portrayals and padding scenes that don’t move us any closer to the finish line. Mira’s interaction with Cersei is a highlight, and the ending is a huge choice that makes the whole episode feel replayable, but the penultimate episode of Telltale’s season isn’t the climactic high point we’re used to from HBO’s series.

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