Don't Nod 'Disappointed' by Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, Jusant Sales

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Actually, I don't know that I've even heard of either of these releases, and I'm online all the time. The marketing must not have been great.

Banishers is a great game with a different approach to the ghost theme and an emotional core. Hope it finds an audience overtime. It deserves it.

I have really liked Dontnod’s games. I thought Remember Me was actually underrated. I never got around to playing Vampyr though.

But all of their games I’ve played I think I got through PS+. Perhaps I’m part of the problem.

Ha! I totally didn't know Banishers was already out since February! =P

I’ve genuinely never heard of either of these games.

@awp69 Couldn’t agree more. It wound up being one of my favorites of the year and one of those rare games that rattled around in my head even when I wasn’t playing it. It also has some of the best voice acting I can remember. Really glad I took a chance on it.

Jusant being on GamePass couldn't have helped its sales.

I've seen Banisher trailer and it doesn't like my cup of tea. I also played Vampyr from PS+ and i'm not sure what that makes me stop playing the game. But i finished Life of Strange 1 and i quite like it.

I planned on Banishers but all the reviews said the combat wasn’t great so I passed. Jusant is still in my wishlist but I have so many frigging games right now that it can just wait for the foreseeable future.

I've been waiting for a good sale on Banishers. Jusant just never looked appealing to me. Bummer their games aren't finding an audience, I really appreciate them working in this like AA space.

Banishers is on my Wish List, I’m just waiting for a sale. Didn’t look like a full price purchase type of game.

@Ralizah this is what I was going to say. You can't just put games out there and hope, especially now there's just so many games out there.

Jusant was really good, but it was also on game pass. Banishers kind of just got a small bit of coverage on hardcore gaming websites and blended into the background.

@Th3solution perhaps, perhaps not. I don't think the user is the problem, but the system itself. Subscriptions, for one, make you realise just how many god damn games there are, which probably doesn't help 😅 in some cases it will help smaller titles, but with so much choice how is anyone ever going to play them.

I think subscriptions need to go a way for a while and have a good long talk to themselves. And maybe come back as a premium product with well thought out, specially picked selections made by people who play games themselves. Titles being on for a shorter amount of time with new headliners each month that get people interested. A much more artisan approach to gaming than the netflix tv "shove a bunch of generic, broad appeal s*** at peoples faces, and 20 times as much niche sh**, but then throw a few good shows in there every so often" approach.

Not to mention the fact that people have been conditioned to only want to play games if they can play 4 AAA titles for £2... That definitely doesn't help 💀

It would probably sell better if it would ever go on sale!

I didn't even hear of Jusant but I thought I did remember seeing something about Banishers a while back. Ultimately, I forgot it existed and don't think I'll be picking up either.

I didn't know it came out, no ads or anything.

It got mostly positive reviews on steam. It has a demo, so I will give it a go and see if it's for me.

Banishers was excellent but definitely had some bugs during the initial launch. My biggest complaint is that the camps were too far from each other.

I completed Vampyr earlier this year and really enjoyed it. I have been holding off grabbing Banishers as I was hoping they would localise it for Japan.
If Dontnod release a remaster of Remember Me I will gladly buy it since it was criminally overlooked at the tail-end of the PS3’s life. I loved the concept of altering memories and the setting of Neo Paris was brilliant. I even bought the art book!

@Ravix There's so many games now.

And, frankly, so many decent to great ones. More than people could play in a lifetime.

You really have to stand out. It's hard to do that if you're not a major developer.

Hopefully they figure it out. Jusant was always gonna be a more niche game and Banishers came out at a bad time.

@Ralizah you never heard both of the games? I guess you are living in under the rock lol

I'm actually playing Banishers right now, and I'm over 60h already. I'm really enjoying my time with it. The main characters are very likeable and their relationship really solid. The haunting cases are very interesting, they're all quite different from one another, even if some of them are predictable. I like solving these cases and getting to decide at the end of each one of them if i banish or ascend the ghosts (or do worse with the living). I also like that some of these cases actually connects with the main story, and i like how every now and them (based on a choice that i made) the game points its finger at me to remind me how sh*tty i am

The exploration is pretty much God of Warlite (2018) and the combat is OK, even though it can be quite frustrating at times when you're facing tougher foes. Voice acting is top notch. Most dialogues are really well written. Performance is kinda mid, but this is one of those Unreal Engine 5 games (aka the most unstable engine ever) so i can get past the framerate drops

If the last part of the game is as good as the rest of it and if the story ends on a high note, then this can be easily a 9/10 for me and my personal GOTY contender

It's funny how i hated Life is Strange so much to the point that i consider it top 5 worst games i ever played, and yet Vampyr and this game here, especially, are very very very good

Too bad it didn't sell so well. People need to know about this game more