EVILIZE

Editorial Has potential

EVILIZE is a stealth-adventure game with ambitious character writing that lands for those invested in its narrative—players consistently praise the character development and emotional depth as exceptional for the genre. However, the game is hampered by significant technical problems: crashes at specific story beats (particularly after the gang hideout and church missions), broken enemy AI that fails to detect players, softlocks in later maps, and persistent bugs in key missions (the Royals route key-collection sequence, the lab vessel trigger). The current build requires a bugfix patch just to progress past the first mission, and even with patches, players report needing workarounds (M-TOOL script skips, community save files) to finish. The game's design also suffers from poor waypointing—players constantly ask where to go next, with critical progression hidden behind nearly invisible interactables or NPCs whose dialogue triggers aren't always clear. If you can tolerate troubleshooting and the story grabs you, the character work may justify the effort; otherwise, the rough technical state and obtuse design make this a frustrating playthrough.