Game reviews / Dragon's Dogma 2
Dragon's Dogma 2
2024 · PC · PlayStation 5 · Xbox Series X|S · Action RPG · Open-World RPG
4 scored sources · 2 countries contributing scores
Review consensus
Dragon’s Dogma 2 is a distinctive open-world action RPG whose greatest strengths are its tactile combat, enormous monsters, flexible vocations, and uniquely helpful Pawn companions. Its world repeatedly generates memorable, unscripted adventures, making travel and exploration feel meaningful rather than routine. Critics consistently praised the sense of discovery and emergent chaos, while noting rough edges including unstable performance, especially in cities, awkward camera behavior, uneven quest clarity, repetitive enemies, and underdeveloped storytelling. It is an unusually bold sequel that preserves the original’s eccentric design instead of smoothing away its friction, resulting in an exceptional but imperfect adventure.
Limited geographic coverage. Treat this score as an early indication.
Last researched: 2026-09-19
Pros
- Dynamic open-world exploration and emergent encounters
- Excellent, highly tactile combat against giant monsters
- Distinctive vocation system with varied playstyles
- Helpful and memorable Pawn companion system
Cons
- Poor performance and frame-rate instability
- Unclear quests, bugs, and occasional progression problems
- Weak characterization and uneven main-story writing
- Limited enemy variety and occasional camera issues
Review sources
4 sources found across 2 countries. This is not exhaustive worldwide coverage.
- PC Gamer · United Kingdom · 89/100
- Push Square · United Kingdom · 90/100
- GameSpot · United States · 90/100
- IGN · United States · 80/100