Unknown 9: Awakening

But Why ThoKate Sánchez

60/10

Unknown 9: Awakening boasts great combat and an ambitious story, but performance issues are too many to look past.

Digital TrendsVeerender Singh Jubbal

“Unknown 9: Awakening is a promising start for a new series once you learn to love its combat.”

Checkpoint GamingTom Quirk

8/10

Unknown 9: Awakening is the debut title by Canadian developer Reflector Games, as well as the first entry in a rather ambitious multimedia shared universe that is set to expand across comic books, web series and podcasts. Despite being saddled with an unintuitive title that makes it sound like the 9th entry in a franchise you’ve never heard of, coupled with an unwieldy and generic subtitle, I am pleased to announce that Unknown 9: Awakening is actually quite a lot of fun as an action/advent...

Press StartJames Wood

7.5/10

Unknown 9: Awakening is a thoroughly AA gaming experience. Like a lost gem from the Xbox 360 era, its charm and jank are intermingled in interesting ways, but its commitment to a unique cultural perspective and killer remixing of the stealth/combat loop elevate it above its slightly unpolished wrappings.

GamingBoltMatthew Carmosino

7/10

Unknown 9: Awakening is a generally solid action-adventure mystery let down by irritatingly repetitive combat encounters in the game's later half. The character dialogue and environmental exploration are a highlight, keeping me playing even when other aspects annoyed me.

StevivorSteve Wright

7/10

I love a good walk and talk. Some of my favourite television series — most notably, Star Trek The Next Generation and Buffy the Vampire Slayer — always used the technique to convey copious amounts of exposition as Picard and Riker exited a turbolift on the way to a transporter room, or as Buffy and Giles made their way to the library.

TechRaptorErren Van Duine

7/10

Unknown 9: Awakening is full of originality, but suffers from some frustrating gameplay decisions despite the interesting mystery of its narrative.

Push SquareJenny Jones

7/10

Unknown 9: Awakening is the debut game from studio Reflector Entertainment but not the first entry into the Unknown universe; so far there are novels, comics, and even a dramatised podcast. Thankfully, Awakening is a standalone experience and so you don’t need to delve into any of the other cross-media releases to understand anything.

Impulse GamerDagmara

I like AA titles. Sometimes they end up being more fun than high-profile games, even if nothing indicates it at first. Can I say the same about Unknown 9:

GamerBravesRalph

6/10

In the ever-expanding realm of action-adventure games, Reflector Entertainment’s Unknown 9: Awakening arrives with the weight of a multimedia franchise on its shoulders. In this comprehensive review, we’ll find out whether Unknown 9: Awakening successfully translates its multimedia potential into an engaging gaming experience or falls short of its ambitious narrative promise.

The Nerd StashJulio La Pine

5.5/10

Unknown 9: Awakening is the perfect example of having great ideas, interesting lore, and well-written characters that are thrown to the wall in a random fashion to see if they stick together. The plethora of technical issues is so large that by the time the game gets going, one's investment is long gone.

VGChartzLee Mehr

4.5/10

For all of the ambitious transmedia gimmicks surrounding it, Reflector's first title fails to awaken any sustained interest due to shoddy execution.Reviewer's Note: All of my experience is based on a post-launch title update, which was effectively the 1.1 [...]