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Heaven, earth and mankind - Create and destroy everything according to your will! Experience the revival of the '90s classic hit "Actraiser"
Actraiser Renaissance is a action, action rpg and city builder game
developed by Square Enix and Sonic Powered
and published by Square Enix.
Released on September 23rd 2021 is available only on Windows
in 4 languages: English, French, German and Japanese.
It has received 689 reviews of which 515 were positive and 174 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.1 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 11.99€ on Steam with a 60% discount.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows® 8.1 64-bit / Windows® 10 64-bit
- Processor: AMD A8-7600, Intel® Core™ i3-3210
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon™ R7 240,NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 730
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 5 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX compatible sound card
- Additional Notes: keyboard, gamepad
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I actually really enjoyed this remake. The character development was nice, the siege battles were fun, and overall, it's a nice remake.
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Actraiser Renaissance is a modern reimagining of a cult classic that dares to preserve one of the most unusual genre hybrids in gaming while significantly expanding its scope. It blends side-scrolling action with god-simulation city management in a way that still feels distinctive decades after the original’s debut. Rather than simply polishing visuals and controls, the remake aims to reinterpret the experience as a fuller epic about restoration, faith, and the cyclical struggle between creation and destruction. From the opening moments, it is clear that this is not a minimalist revival, but a version that actively seeks to deepen nearly every aspect of the original design. At the core of Actraiser Renaissance is its dual gameplay structure, which alternates between direct action and divine oversight. In the action segments, players control the Lord of Light in traditional 2D stages filled with platforming, enemy encounters, and large-scale boss battles. Combat has been expanded to feel more fluid and expressive, incorporating dodges, directional attacks, and a wider range of magic abilities. These changes modernize the moment-to-moment feel, making combat more engaging and responsive than its predecessor, while still retaining an old-school rhythm rooted in pattern recognition and positioning. Between these combat-heavy moments lies the simulation half of the experience, where players guide humanity’s resurgence across multiple regions. Acting through angels, you shape settlements by clearing land, directing population growth, and protecting cities from monster invasions. What was once a relatively simple system has grown into a more involved management layer, introducing structured objectives, narrative-driven milestones, and tower-defense-style encounters. These additions give the simulation segments more strategic weight, encouraging players to think about long-term development rather than simply filling maps to completion. Narrative expansion is one of the remake’s most noticeable departures from the original. Each region now features its own champions and story arcs, providing faces and personalities to the people you are guiding. These characters add emotional context to the cycle of destruction and rebirth, reinforcing the game’s themes of belief, sacrifice, and responsibility. While the storytelling leans heavily into familiar fantasy archetypes, it succeeds in giving the world cohesion and a sense of progression that ties the action and simulation elements together more clearly than before. The audiovisual presentation plays a major role in shaping the remake’s identity. The visual style adopts a high-definition aesthetic that reinterprets classic sprites and environments with bold colors and detailed animations. While some stylistic choices may divide opinion, the overall presentation is vibrant and readable, especially during busy combat encounters or large-scale simulation events. The soundtrack stands out as a highlight, with remastered compositions that retain their melodic power while benefiting from modern production. The option to switch between classic and updated music underscores the developers’ respect for the original experience while embracing modernization. Despite its ambition, Actraiser Renaissance is not without friction. The expanded systems occasionally disrupt pacing, particularly when lengthy narrative segments or repeated defensive encounters interrupt the natural flow between action and management. Some players may find the increased complexity overwhelming compared to the original’s elegance, especially if they prefer a more streamlined loop. The action segments, while improved, can also feel uneven in difficulty, with certain stages or bosses demanding precision that may surprise newcomers. Yet these rough edges do little to overshadow the remake’s broader achievement. Actraiser Renaissance remains a rare example of a game that successfully merges two fundamentally different genres into a cohesive whole. Its willingness to expand rather than simplify its mechanics gives it a distinct identity in a landscape dominated by more conventional remakes. The game invites players not only to fight evil, but to reflect on the consequences of guidance, growth, and divine intervention. Ultimately, Actraiser Renaissance is best appreciated as a bold reinterpretation rather than a straightforward remake. It honors the spirit of the original while reshaping it into a more narrative-driven and system-rich experience. For players drawn to hybrid designs, strategic city building, and action rooted in classic sensibilities, it offers a thoughtful and ambitious journey that stands apart from most modern releases. Rating: 7/10
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I enjoyed this remake a lot. I played the original waaaaaaay back around my preteens in the early 2000's or so. I loved the game at the time, and am happy to say that I actually ended up liking the remake more. This isn't a difficult game. It's pretty easy overall, I never got a game over on normal mode and never even lost more than one life per stage, which was rare enough on it's own. Enemy's are pretty easy, and the new crystal buff system can make you pretty overpowered. Magic spells are also very overpowered, mainly because they do massive damage while also making the protagonist fully immune to damage and knock back during the cast animation. If you have the mana for it, you can cheese basically any boss in the game with magic, including the final boss and post game extra boss. I enjoyed everything about the changes, more or less. I like the new artstyle, the added storylines for each region, the hero's, and the tower defense segments. This all, along with the new quest and spawner mini stages add in some nice mix ups between the region management sim elements, making the sim segments feel less repetitive and mix in well to the games already strange mix of genres. If I had to point out anything as a flaw, I can thing of a few things. The game can get repetitive, though less so than the original in my opinion. This didn't bother me, but I know many see that as a flaw, so it's worth pointing out. The game is also very easy. This doesn't bother me but I know some people want games to be hard. I can't judge hard mode sense I didn't play it, but normal was a pushover. I also think defending the settlements from the flying monsters during the sim section of the game is easier than the original. They feel slower than they were in the snes version, and less aggressive. While I enjoyed the tower defense segments of the game, not that like with all the other gameplay segments the game has, it's rather 'simple'. You can build fortifications to help defend points, but outside of a few missions, you almost always want to simply stack forts near the temple, and overlapping if possible. Arrow towers beat out Mage towers because too many enemys eventually have spell shields. Gatehouses seem less useful to me, because lure blockades can be used to drag enemys where you want instead, including into overlapping arrow towers that can be used to mow the units down. Gatehouses only damage things that attack them. Fortifications feel fairly unbalanced in usefulness down the line.
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So, it's not the greatest remake ever of the greatest game ever. It's a solid title, though, though it might be a bit over-priced. It's not 1-to-1, so if that's what you're after, this ain't it. It does keep to the spirit of the original, however, with a few interesting additions and some unfortunate removals. You can't naturally regen mana anymore. They added, however, a nifty little RTS/Tower Defence sort-of minigame. I like it. My biggest gripe so far, after clearing the first two settlements are two-fold. The first is that you are *constantly* getting nagged by the Angel and getting hit with cutscene after cutscene. It really detracts from the immersion. At times, you'll get three or four back-to-back with maybe a minute between them. The game would have benefited greatly from some sort of internal clock to just keep those cutscenes spaced apart a little. It would have been less frustrating if they kept them from playing if maybe two to five minutes hadn't passed. The other big complaint I have is that your Angel is perfectly capable of killing monsters during the main gameplay where you're expanding the town, but suddenly can't engage in combat directly for the RTS/Tower Defense portion. Those two gameplay segments just don't flow well into one another. All that said, I like the game. No, it's not exactly like the original. It is, however, a solid spiritual successor. It's not worth full price, though. Get it on sale.
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lets start this off with this is a remake not a copy of what was on super nes, it does have parts of the older game in it but a few things have been removed. you have to give them ideas to build things like farms and other things that seems to have been 100% taken away, you do get to give a type of item, per zone. i do and don't like it as it makes you feel like you're doing less. to add to that you can must go into lairs to close that are fixed to story, unlike the old game where you could take em out way faster, i don't mind as it's something more to the game play, but they are far too easy to close even on hard mode. combat and game play lets start off with they removed jumping down, but added a dash, when you dash you can't be hit, both a good thing and a bad thing. now when you unlock it you will get more powerful the more you kill, it's cool as it makes you check the map for anythings to boost dmg magic and a pick up. you get a small combo setup to, i do like them, they add something more to the game, you can do use magic in the air. ai in combat now they can be stuned this can make it feel good and bad, bad do to it feeling too easy, good as it helps you speed past things, and ai do feel a bit slow. now lets talk about boss's the only one i found that was fun\hard was one you had to hit it at points it opens up, it's a plant one, it was cool, but going past that some boss's just feel slow and i don't mean the starter zones boss's, i was meaning the end game boss and 2 zones before it, they feel just slow it did disapoint me when i killed the end game boss like he was nothingi don't remember it being that easy. lets talk about the build parts you must distroy your buildings you get the humans to build, so they can build more, so if you can't hit pop you need keep blowing up them house's it'll work sooner or later. now lets talk about the town raids and monster raids tower defence. i both like it and don't what i like about it gives me something to do but normal raids outside of story stuff, done on hard takes way way too long to show up if at all, and some types of ai besides raid boss's only show up in story raids,i feel like it lacks more things to build and do as there are only 2 towers and one gate, you do get bell towers and stoppers for ai that can hold waves back for a bit, but it feels like it, it's lacking. still i didn't mind it. lets talk about the way the maps look and game play, they made most things look really good, but some things just out like they don't fit, like the flying monsters seem like that could be made to look a bit better, some textures really look bad, still it's only some small bits. there is a lot more i can say but if you're a new player the game gets better the more you get into it give or take i'd give it a 6.5 out of 10 mostly do to whats been cut.
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Actraiser Renaissance is currently priced at 11.99€ on Steam.
Actraiser Renaissance is currently available at a 60% discount. You can purchase it for 11.99€ on Steam.
Actraiser Renaissance received 515 positive votes out of a total of 689 achieving a rating of 7.13.
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Actraiser Renaissance was developed by Square Enix and Sonic Powered and published by Square Enix.
Actraiser Renaissance is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Actraiser Renaissance is not playable on MacOS.
Actraiser Renaissance is not playable on Linux.
Actraiser Renaissance is a single-player game.
Actraiser Renaissance does not currently offer any DLC.
Actraiser Renaissance does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Actraiser Renaissance does not support Steam Remote Play.
Actraiser Renaissance is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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