Anachronox on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Join Sylvester "Sly" Boots and Stiletto Anyway as they trek across six bizarre planets investigating a galaxy-crushing mystery, searching for artefacts from an extinct alien race and unlocking the secrets of a powerful, advanced technology. It's your turn. PICK YOUR POISON.

Anachronox is a rpg, cyberpunk and sci-fi game developed by and published by Square Enix.
Released on October 17th 2013 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 575 reviews of which 429 were positive and 146 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.1 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 5.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 3.68€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Anachronox into these genres:

RPG Cyberpunk Sci-fi Comedy Classic Turn-Based Singleplayer Funny Third Person Adventure Story Rich JRPG Atmospheric Cult Classic Great Soundtrack

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System requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows XP or Windows Vista
Processor: 1.8 GHz Processor
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (compatible with DirectX 9 recommended)
DirectX: Version 7.0
Storage: 2 GB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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Dec. 2024

A friend in the gaming industry explained to me that he is motivated to show others what is possible within the medium. Anachronox is the template which sets the example for a higher narrative with plenty of humor, combined with heavenly camera work in a sci-fi blanket. It's arguably a mess on all fronts, but the breath of imagination and compelling characters elevate it amongst the finest PC games. In short, if you're willing to bring the patience, Anachronox will deliver on the level of the classics that inspired it.

Nov. 2024

Great game and greatest example how one stupid design decission can make great game into a terrible experience. Story is generic, but what carries it is great characters and their interactions. Game succesfully tries to be original and funny, with different aproaches to story telling and handfull of mini games, but with somwhat repetetive and boring fights i could do without in the end. But the most extraordinary thing about this game is how one demented end bos fight can ruin the whole experience literally few seconds before the end. After two hours of the most boring and artificially mede 1000x harder than any other previous fight in the whole game i gave up and watched the ending on youtube. The final fight just drags on and on, enemy has 3times more attacks, you just wait constantly your turn and watch your health depleating without means to replenish it, without sacrificing action that must be used for certain other things otherwise the fight is designed to last infinitely. To perform said action you have few seconds to act when certain condition is met and that means you have to try to preserve action with certain character and just let them stay still, and pray they wont be hit by any action stealing status effect. But unfortanetly the fight mechanics is designed around almost cerain chance for said status effect to occur if you did not planned your characters with this single fight in mind from the begining. After constant waiting and watching your every strategic decision stolen from you by unfair design flaw, you have enough and are disgusted with the whike game, effectively wiping all good memories of the game you made diring the gameplay. Given sacrastic nature of the story i wonder if this is the intentional conclusion to make the game really stand out. And it will. I hate and love this game.

Sept. 2024

I played this game back when it came out in 2001 but never finished it due to one game breaking bug affecting progression. Having gone through it again very recently, the story and characters still hold up pretty well, the combat was inspired by turn based JRPGs from the 90s but has not aged as well as classics like Chrono Trigger and FF7, it can get annoying mainly due to the long/slow animations. If you can get past that, this game is worth playing with its memorable characters.

Sept. 2024

The game is just right up my alley with it's mix of Scifi and Rpg Elements. it's quirky and wierd and the story is interesting enough I want to see it through despite the clunkyness of combat. Love the game, Anachronox is clearly a hidden gem.

Aug. 2024

Absolutely one of my favourite games of all time. The humor and story never get old. Eddie knows. My playtime here is low as i used an original CD version since years. I just wanted this game in my library.

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