Fit check
Is Back To Ashes worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Dark-fantasy RPG players who want combat-focused exploration
- Players who enjoy shaping characters through statistics, traits, and randomized items
- Keyboard-and-mouse users looking for an action RPG set across corrupted worlds
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players who want a fixed character build instead of choices involving traits, statistics, and random items
- Players who prefer exploration with few enemy encounters rather than battles across corrupted realms
- Players seeking a controller-first interface rather than a game initially designed for keyboard and mouse
Our take on Back To Ashes
The bounce point arrives during build planning: players who want predictable equipment and a fixed progression route may lose patience with randomized items, varied traits, and multiple statistical choices shaping their play.
What is Back To Ashes?
Back To Ashes is a dark-fantasy action RPG set in the realms of Errent, where worlds are being consumed by an unknown force.
The game follows a journey to find a way to save one’s own reality. Players explore corrupted realms, fight enemies, and confront the Primordial. Combat involves choosing a weapon, learning skill-based techniques, and developing a personal fighting style. Character development includes different statistics, traits, randomly generated items, bonuses, runes, and other components. The game was made by a one-person team as an experiment combining elements from older game classics. Controller support is available, although it was initially designed for keyboard and mouse.
How Back To Ashes plays
- 01Skill-Based Combat
- Weapon selection and learned combat skills support different fighting styles.
- 02Build Customization
- Statistics, traits, random items, bonuses, and runes affect character development.
- 03Corrupted Realms
- The journey passes through dark worlds threatened by an unknown consuming force.
- 04Controller Support
- Controller input is available alongside the original keyboard-and-mouse design.
Back To Ashes compared to similar games
Back To Ashes combines dark-fantasy action RPG combat with randomized items, traits, statistics, bonuses, and runes. Vagante also uses a dark-fantasy setting with monsters and demons, while Ghost of a Tale emphasizes exploration, immersion, stealth, disguises, and conversations. Dungeon Defenders: Awakened combines action RPG systems with cooperative tower defense, loot, pets, and character customization.
Back To Ashes: platforms & release
Is Back To Ashes worth it?
It is worth it if: dark-fantasy RPG players who want combat-focused exploration. Skip it if: players who want a fixed character build instead of choices involving traits, statistics, and random items.
Where can I download Back To Ashes?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Back To Ashes's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Back To Ashes on?
Windows only.
