Paratopic

Critic reviews

• TechRaptor

  Lee Mehr · May 31, 2022

  6.0

  In the end, Paratopic is a title I respect more than enjoy. I admire Arbitrary Metric's specific ambiance and presentational qualities they were able to make on a shoe-string budget; moreover, I can see that being enough for some genre fans – especially with certain qualities being so strong here. But my engagement becomes hobbled when it starts spinning its wheels, as the overarching mystery eventually feels like an illusion of one.

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• Xbox Tavern

  Jamie Collyer · May 12, 2022

  5.8

  All in all though, I’m not sure really about whether I enjoyed Paratopic enough to recommend it. It’s fairly priced for what it is but at the same time, and much like Baltoro’s Fatum Betula, it seems to layer on the weird for the sake of it, hoping that there can be some more depth or meaning pulled out of it by the player.

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• 3rd-strike.com

  JenRox · Sep 22, 2020

  6.9

  Paratopic is surely more of an experience than it is a video game. It’s all about the story and what you discover or what you yourself make from it. It is confusing but very intriguing if you go into the game blindly without any knowledge beforehand. This in turn also makes a second playthrough enticing. The game is recommended to play leisurely before bed, like watching a movie or reading a book. It is a very short game, depending on how thorough you want to play it.

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• NintendoLife

  Stuart Gipp · Sep 14, 2020

  7.0

  Paratopic is a fever dream; a near-constantly engaging sequence of strange and at times frightening imagery. It's intriguing stuff, to say the least, but we felt that it rather fizzled out just when our interest in the various eldritch goings-on was piquing. We found that beyond experiencing it all over again there was nothing much in the way of meaningful replay value, but as a once-through bad trip, it'll keep you glued to your Switch from start to annoyingly-abrupt finish.

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• TheXboxHub

  Dave Ozzy · Apr 25, 2022

  7.0

  The world, characters, story – even a sense of comprehension – all get left behind, furtively seen in the rear-view mirror. In exchange, there are long stretches of what can only be described as tedium, and we would have happily swapped them for more of its fine brand of surrealism and horror.

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• Vandal

  Juan Rubio · Sep 11, 2020

  7.0

  Un pequeño y extraño videojuego experimental, de esos que se agradecen para romper con las experiencias tradicionales, y que puede ser muy interesante si nos involucramos en descubrir la historia.

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