Fit check
Is The Land of Exile worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Action RPG fans who want randomized dungeon layouts and encounters
- Players who enjoy building characters through skills, talents, and equipment
- Players who prefer combat and exploration over a narrative campaign
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a story-led RPG, since the game has only a simple world setting and no planned story focus
- Players wanting a finished long-term progression structure, since the current version has no ending and provides 7 to 10 hours of play
- Players looking for deeply developed boss encounters, since the current boss battles are described as rough
- Players who expect quick startup times, since the game is described as slow to launch
Our take on The Land of Exile
Rather than using quests and narrative as the main structure, the game centers its action RPG format on changing dungeons and repeated group combat. Character growth, variable equipment, and random encounters form the main progression through its magical setting.
What is The Land of Exile?
The Land of Exile is an action RPG set in a damaged world affected by unstable magic.
Players explore randomly generated wilderness areas, castles, labyrinths, and dungeons while fighting varied creatures. Locations may contain rare monsters, temples, gold piles, magic marks, mechanisms, and chests. Combat focuses on combining skills to clear groups of enemies, with elite monsters receiving random modifiers. Character development includes elemental magic, combat techniques, witchcraft, arcane skills, and talents from four branches covering spells, physical abilities, defense, and survival.
Equipment and sets are generated with random affixes, while monsters drop magic fragments that enhance skills. Adventurers encountered during exploration can become followers. The current version has no ending, offers 7 to 10 hours of play, and has a level cap of 50.
How The Land of Exile plays
- 01Randomized dungeon exploration
- Areas can include ruins, crypts, fortified locations, burning regions, and frozen ground, with changing layouts and encounters.
- 02Multiple growth paths
- Character development combines elemental magic, combat techniques, witchcraft, arcane skills, and four talent branches.
- 03Affix-based equipment
- Equipment and sets receive randomly generated affixes, and monsters can drop fragments that enhance skills.
- 04Recruitable adventurers
- Adventurers encountered while exploring can be hired as followers.
- 05Area-focused combat
- The combat loop centers on combining abilities to defeat groups of monsters, including elites with changing modifiers.
- 06Rune altar bonuses
- Altars placed throughout the world provide rune power when players offer tributes.
The Land of Exile compared to similar games
Ghost of a Tale emphasizes immersion, exploration, stealth, disguises, and conversations in a world populated by animals, while The Land of Exile focuses on randomized dungeons, equipment, and skill-based combat. Vagante also features dark fantasy exploration with monsters and treasure, but The Land of Exile adds followers, multiple talent branches, randomly affixed equipment, and rune altars. Dungeon Defenders: Awakened combines action RPG systems with cooperative tower defense, whereas The Land of Exile centers on dungeon exploration and direct combat.
The Land of Exile: platforms & release
Is The Land of Exile worth it?
It is worth it if: action RPG fans who want randomized dungeon layouts and encounters. Skip it if: players seeking a story-led RPG, since the game has only a simple world setting and no planned story focus.
Where can I download The Land of Exile?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens The Land of Exile's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is The Land of Exile on?
Windows only.
