Valkyria Revolution

A new spin off game in the Valkyria franchise, this game may be a prequel to the "Valkyria Chronicles" series and uses a new battle system, LeGION system, that should allow for much larger battles. A Demo for…

56 19 January 2017

Role-playing (RPG) Strategy Action Fantasy Warfare

Valkyria Revolution is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Media.Vision, released 19 January 2017 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One.

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What Valkyria Revolution is

Valkyria Revolution is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Media.Vision and released in 2017. It was published by Deep Silver. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One. It runs on Gouache Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

All it takes is a single spark to start the inferno of war, and in the story of Valkyria Revolution, players will experience that firsthand. Five lifelong friends consumed by personal revenge plunge an entire continent into a terrible war, sacrificing the lives of countless innocents for a cause based on twisted half-truths and outright lies. This “Circle of Five” use their combined influence in their political and military positions to motivate their small, economically blockaded homeland to rise up and become a powerful resistance against its imperialist oppressors. Will the Circle of Five be remembered as heroic liberators, or will their selfish motives expose them as traitorous…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Valkyria series

Valkyria Revolution is the 56th of 75 entries we hold in the Valkyria series. It arrived 11 months after Valkyria Chronicles: Remastered - Europa Edition. The next entry was Valkyria Revolution: Vanargand Edition in 2017. Its critic score of 56 is 25 points below the series average of 81. The highest-rated entry is Valkyria Chronicles at 90.

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How it was received

Valkyria Revolution holds a critic score of 56 out of 100. That places it above 10% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 15 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Valkyria Revolution launched on 19 January 2017, within three weeks of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, Nioh, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony and Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, Nioh, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony.