Dragonkin: The Banished (Xbox Series X) Review

Action RPG fans have been fed extraordinarily well over the past decade. Diablo fans have gotten a remake and a new mainline title, Path of Exile 2 has made waves, and other titles like Grim Dawn have developed a religious following. With such a growing selection, Dragonkin: The Banished is developer Eko Software’s second attempt at the genre, and it is a title that fits neatly into that gameplay niche. Dragonkin: The Banished is a dungeon-crawling power trip that serves deep, dynamic systems and class building to fans and newcomers of the genre alike.

Dragonkin: The Banished throws you into the deep end right away as souped-up, final-build versions of each of the classes available on the character-select screen. Unlike other ARPGs, this is a novel way to approach class selection. After having a turn at playing the final form of the four builds, I came away most impressed by the Barbarian because of his overwhelming similarities to how the class plays in Diablo, and I would... Read more