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The Medium Reviews

Become a medium living in two different worlds: the real one and the spirit one. Haunted by the vision of a child's murder, you travel to an abandoned hotel resort, which many years ago became the stage of an unthinkable tragedy. There you begin your search for difficult answers. As a medium...

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The Gamer 10

The Medium Review: "It All Starts With A Dead Girl"

Bloober Team takes a page from Clock Tower and delivers its most confident production yet.

www.thegamer.com

Power Up 9.7/10

The Medium Review (Xbox Series X) – Too Alive for the Dead, Too Dead for the Living - PowerUp!

Bloober Team's rise as one of the leading voices in video game horror was already cemented long before The Medium. However, The Medium is such a spectacle that Bloober Team is now operating at an entirely new level. The Polish developer has taken everything it learned creating Layers of Fear...

powerup-gaming.com

The Digital Fix 9.5/10

The Medium | The Digital Fix

www.thedigitalfix.com

Gamers Heroes 9.5/10

The Medium Review - Gamers Heroes

The Medium is a terrifying and disturbing look into the darkest recesses of human behavior, wrapped in an immersive, atmospheric, and beautiful looking game world.

www.gamersheroes.com

GameSpot 9/10

The Medium Review: Well-Done

The Medium is a terrifying but compelling exploration of duality that uses the horror of personal trauma to craft a memorable tale.

www.gamespot.com

PC Gamer 9.2/10

The Medium review

Third-person horror with fixed camera angles still has lots of life in it. (And death.)

www.pcgamer.com

XboxHub 9/10

The Medium Review - Welcome to The Next Generation of Xbox | TheXboxHub

The Medium on Xbox is the game fans have been waiting for. A dark, mature, scary, visually appetizing next-gen delight with a gripping story, it is one to not miss if you are a fan of psychological horror. Above all, this feels like an experience that really shows the chops of the Series X, and...

www.thexboxhub.com

Critical Hit 8.5/10

The Medium review – Paranormal perfection

Need some extra nightmare fuel? Classic genre sensibilities meets next-gen capabilities in The Medium, a psychological horror game coming to Xbox and PC from developers Bloober Team.

www.criticalhit.net

Game Watcher 8.5/10

The Medium Review | GameWatcher

A throwback to classic survival horror!

www.gamewatcher.com

Xbox Tavern 8.5/10

The Medium Review - Xbox Tavern

Experts in horror Bloober Team are back with this next-gen exclusive title - is it a good first outing for the team on new hardware?

www.xboxtavern.com

God Is a Geek 8.5/10

The Medium review [Xbox Series X|S, PC] | GodisaGeek.com

The Medium is Bloober Team's biggest game to date, and it is easily one of their best, with a great story and gorgeous visuals.

www.godisageek.com

ZTGD 8/10

The Medium (XSX) Review

Ken slips between worlds in his latest review.

www.ztgd.com

EGM 8/10

The Medium review - EGM

The Medium is a good—if flawed—new addition to the video game horror genre.

egmnow.com

Twinfinite 8/10

The Medium Review - A Spiritual Sensation

The Medium on Xbox Series X "So there I was, existing in two worlds, but not really living in either." Marianne comes out with this line about midway

twinfinite.net

IGN 8/10

The Medium Review - IGN

Brilliantly paced and palpably tense, The Medium is a psychological horror adventure that’s all thriller and no filler.

www.ign.com

Stevivor 7.5/10

The Medium Review: Bloober Team's finest to date

The Medium is a big deal, the first new Microsoft-published Xbox Series console exclusive of 2021 (and 2020 for that matter) and an evolution of a Bloober Team concept that first appeared with 2016’s Layers of Fear.

stevivor.com

Screenrant 7/10

The Medium Review

The Medium shows off current-gen hardware.

screenrant.com

Game Skinny 7/10

The Medium Review: What's Past is Prologue

The Medium is less survival-horror and more adventure-horror like the studio's past games, but so long as Bloober Team is still refining this style, the team is clearly getting better.

www.gameskinny.com

Ign France 7/10

Test The Medium, le cauchemar de l’autre côté du miroir

Le cauchemar de l’autre côté du miroir

fr.ign.com

Game Informer 6.8/10

The Medium Review - The Medium Review – Grave New World - Game Informer

This is a horror game with more tedium than tension.

www.gameinformer.com

Press Start 6.5/10

The Medium Review - Stuck Between The Past & Present

The Medium Review - Stuck Between The Past & Present

press-start.com.au

Aus Gamers 6.2/10

The Medium Review

Our The Medium Review - for an in-depth, unbiased review of the latest and greatest video games, read on.

www.ausgamers.com

Shacknews 6/10

The Medium review: Halfway there

Bloober Team's most ambitious game yet rips back the veil between reality and the spirit world. But is the world beyond worth exploring?

www.shacknews.com

Well Played 6/10

The Medium Review

See you on the other side

www.well-played.com.au

Destructoid 6/10

Review: The Medium

I wanted more from the split-reality premise of The Medium. I wanted stakes. If it felt threatening, I'd have a very different outlook.

www.destructoid.com

Slant Magazine 6/10

Review: The Medium Is Richly Atmospheric, but Its Gameplay Is Stuck in the Past

The Medium is at its best whenever the player gets to lives up to the game’s title.

www.slantmagazine.com

PureXbox 6/10

Review: The Medium - A Stunning Xbox Series X Showpiece, Let Down By Uninspired Gameplay

Hello from the other side!

www.purexbox.com

Trusted Reviews 6/10

The Medium

The Medium is an enjoyable survival horror held back by a boring narrative and a signature mechanic that never reaches its full potential.

www.trustedreviews.com

VGC 6/10

The Medium review: Bloober’s paranormal walking simulator is more disturbing than scary

Bloober Team’s Xbox Series exclusive is packed with atmosphere but is somewhat lacking in bite…

www.videogameschronicle.com

GameSpew 6/10

The Medium Review – GameSpew

Bloober Team moves out of its comfort zone with The Medium, and unfortunately the results aren't all that impressive. Our review.

www.gamespew.com

DualShockers 5.5/10

The Medium Review — An Imbalance

Despite its technical prowess and stunning visuals, The Medium is a drag. From slow, uninteresting gameplay to a confusing and poorly executed story, Bloober Team's latest makes for a good tech demo, but not much else.

www.dualshockers.com

Paste Magazine 5/10

The Medium Is Tepid at Best

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

www.pastemagazine.com

CG magazine 4.5/10

The Medium (PC) Review - CGMagazine

The Medium is a poor game that is rife with bugs, bad ideas, and some nice things to look at.

www.cgmagonline.com

Gaming Bible 3/10

'The Medium' Review: A Horror Game That's Barely Scary At All

'The Medium' reviewed on Xbox and PC - Should You Buy It?

www.gamingbible.co.uk

Vg247 3/5

The Medium review - Xbox Series X, Series S, PC, Game Pass

We take a look at the latest game from Bloober Team in this The Medium review. Game played on Xbox Series X, also on Xbox Series S and PC.

www.vg247.com

Attack of the fanboy 2.5/5

The Medium Review | Attack of the Fanboy

Few gaming genres present developers with as big a challenge as horror. Crafting an experience that produces an excited or joyful reaction seems easy when

attackofthefanboy.com

Games Radar 2.5/5

The Medium review: "Hard to see this mildly spooky adventure as anything other than a misstep"

The Medium tries to do a lot but never really seems to stop and see if any of it's working.

www.gamesradar.com

The Guardian 2/5

The Medium review – split-world horror stranded in unsatisfying limbo

Bloober Team’s beautiful-looking exploration of intergenerational trauma is ripe ground for innovative storytelling, but fumbles its big themes

www.theguardian.com

 

[sxodan]

 

[FatKingBallman]

Wccftech
7.3
PCgamer
92

 

[THEAP99]

 

[JORMBO]

Happy to see some good numbers to start.

 

[Karak]

Mine


Boring, trite, doesn't do almost anything, stories are bare bones, dragged out and graphics are very basic after the first couple hours.

 

[Skifi28]

Mine


Boring, trite, doesn't do almost anything, stories are bare bones, dragged out and graphics are very basic after the first couple hours.

Daaaaamn

 

[Thirty7ven]

Mine


Boring, trite, doesn't do almost anything, stories are bare bones, dragged out and graphics are very basic after the first couple hours.

Seems like the game lives and dies on how interesting you find the story.

 

[skit_data]

Wow, a 9 from gamespot. I always consider them the most accurate and honest. Thats way higher than i expected!

Edit: whoops, i guess im totally wrong. Gamespot sucks i guess. I have barely read any reviews from the major gaming sites in several years, so im probably completely out of the loop.

 

[HE1NZ]

I just realized it's from makers of Observer. I hated that game.

 

[FatKingBallman]

GameInformer

6.75

 

[ManaByte]

Going to finish Immortals today and then wait for Werewolf next week.

 

[JORMBO]

Happy to see some good numbers to start.

Mine


Boring, trite, doesn't do almost anything, stories are bare bones, dragged out and graphics are very basic after the first couple hours.

My comment didn't last long, lol

 

[Senua]

Mine


Boring, trite, doesn't do almost anything, stories are bare bones, dragged out and graphics are very basic after the first couple hours.

Sounds like all of their other games

 

[CatLady]

Mine


Boring, trite, doesn't do almost anything, stories are bare bones, dragged out and graphics are very basic after the first couple hours.

That's a bummer since I usually agree with Karak's opinion on games. I was really looking forward to this game. I'll still give it a try since it's on Game Pass. Maybe I'll get lucky and this will be one of those games I don't agree with him.

 

[THEAP99]

 

[Concern]

Mine


Boring, trite, doesn't do almost anything, stories are bare bones, dragged out and graphics are very basic after the first couple hours.

Looked interesting but didn't expect much after playing Blair Witch. I'll still check it out since its preloaded.

 

[Senua]

70-75 is actually a good score for an Xbox game.
Congrats to the studio.

 

[Starfield]

70-75 is actually a good score for an Xbox game.
Congrats to the studio.

isnt it timed exclusive?

 

[Papacheeks]

Wow, a 9 from gamespot. I always consider them the most accurate and honest. Thats way higher than i expected!

Is this a joke post?

Gamespot accurate and honest?

 

[GeoramA]

Sounds mediocre, but that's like a 9/10 for Game Pass standards.

 

[THEAP99]

PC reviews are coming in

 

[BlackProdigy]

But the ponies said the game will suck

 

[Entroyp]

Is this a MS studios game? It has their trademark quality.

 

[Silent Viper]

Mine


Boring, trite, doesn't do almost anything, stories are bare bones, dragged out and graphics are very basic after the first couple hours.

Interesting. So its a Medium quality game according to you?




Reviews are mixed so far. GS, IGN, PC GAMER and Eurogamer all gave it 9 and loved it. Anyway, Game pass ftw

 

[MatrixReloaded101]

Wow looks like Xbox Series X/S got their first goood exclusive....

That 9 from gamespot surprised me

 

[Senua]

But the ponies said the game will suck

Yea seems more of a meh atm

 

[Karak]

It is gamepass which saves it but I am stunned to see anything above say a 7 on this. It is as bare-bones as you get and the coveted 2 worlds thing is nothing more than coop split screen but changing it to SP. Its like someone waved their hand and said. BELIEVE>

 

[Raekwon26]

Excuse my ignorance but, who is this person?

 

[Entroyp]

But the ponies said the game will suck

It seems like it’s just plain bad, which is an improvement I guess.

 

[Alebrije]

Its seems will end with a medium score

 

[ManaByte]

Excuse my ignorance but, who is this person?

Someone who posted a negative review about an Xbox game, so of course he signal boosts it.

 

[Papacheeks]

But the ponies said the game will suck

Looking at how it's getting picked apart by youtubers, and eurogamer reviewer, sounds like it's nice to look at, but has issues with what it wants to be.

Also it running at 900p on a 12tf console regardless of what the game is trying to do rendering wise is kind of a bad look. If they had issues during early tests than they should have had you just switch back in forth between worlds at will and render them level at a time instead of trying to two this dual rendering. Cool looking but hardware isn't there yet to do it yet.

 

[Senua]

Excuse my ignorance but, who is this person?

Well her review is on the eurogamer youtube channel so actually.. I HAVE NO IDEA

 

[skit_data]

Is this a joke post?

Gamespot accurate and honest?

I usually tend to find their reviews more aligned with my own opinion on games, more than IGN at least. But then again, i rarely look up games i dont intend to buy in the first place.

 

[Silent Viper]

Is this a MS studios game? It has their trademark quality.

Troll post.. Its a timed exclusive indie game coming to PS5 at later date as well

 

[Papacheeks]

I usually tend to find their reviews more aligned with my own opinion on games, more than IGN at least. But then again, i rarely look up games i dont intend to buy in the first place.

Xbox gave me three free months for a dollar recently, so I was looking forward in checking this out since it gave me Alan wake vibes, but now that more is shown it looks kind of boring outside of atmosphere.

 

[GHG]

I usually tend to find their reviews more aligned with my own opinion on games, more than IGN at least. But then again, i rarely look up games i dont intend to buy in the first place.

This makes no sense.

Gamespot reviews are not done by just one person.

 

[EMR]

Great! Another poor Microsoft's Windows Exclusive, also Xbox Console Exclusive, also also Timed Exclusive game.

 

[Papacheeks]

Honestly this proves my point a little o gamepass. The ponderosa of game content. There's stuff to play, and some stuff that looks really good, but on average your getting a mix bag of titles.

 

[yazenov]

Great! Another poor Microsoft's Windows Exclusive, also Xbox Console Exclusive, also also Timed Exclusive game.

A Gamepass quality game.

 

[Sander Cohen]

But the ponies said the game will suck

73 on MC says that it kinda does

 

[MiguelItUp]

Yeah, this is what I was expecting, unfortunately. I may still give it a whirl at some point, but my excitement was reserved awhile ago.

Edit: Of course trolls are like, "HURR DURR GAME PASS QUALITY GAME HURR." No one should have to tell you this, and I'm sure it's bait. But whatever. The game being a "launch on Game Pass" title has absolutely nothing to do with the project's overall quality. I mean, you could've made a pretty solid review assumption just by the dev's previous titles.

 

[Karak]

Honestly this proves my point a little o gamepass. The ponderosa of game content. There's stuff to play, and some stuff that looks really good, but on average your getting a mix bag of titles.

Sure thats actually how numbers work. Otherwise it would be called Excellentpass and required scores would be laid out.

 

[Halo0629]

It's cheap on steam but still on the fence though. Anybody here has any idea of the length of the game?

 

[Silent Viper]

Looking at how it's getting picked apart by youtubers, and eurogamer reviewer, sounds like it's nice to look at, but has issues with what it wants to be.

Also it running at 900p on a 12tf console regardless of what the game is trying to do rendering wise is kind of a bad look. If they had issues during early tests than they should have had you just switch back in forth between worlds at will and render them level at a time instead of trying to two this dual rendering. Cool looking but hardware isn't there yet to do it yet.

Eurogamer? It got Recommended rating from EG


Its getting mixed reviews.. Its best you try it yourself and then decide. Its on GP, you have no excuse not to try it with open mind

 

[LisaMariaMartin]

Honestly this proves my point a little o gamepass. The ponderosa of game content. There's stuff to play, and some stuff that looks really good, but on average your getting a mix bag of titles.

Oh fuck off with this nonsense. This is a bloober game and it shows. You can come back with comments like this once Fable, Halo Infinite, Avowed or any Zenimax game turns out like this.

 

[GHG]

Gamesradar - 5/10:

The Medium review: "Hard to see this mildly spooky adventure as anything other than a misstep"

The Medium tries to do a lot but never really seems to stop and see if any of it's working.

www.gamesradar.com

Skill Up - Recommended (via gamepass):

 

[JCK75]

Watching quite a few reviews it seems like reality is it's a solid B+ title that is really enjoyable if you are into horror titles.
I never really expected it would be a 90+ scoring game so I'm very happy with what I'm seeing.

 

[GHG]

It's cheap on steam but still on the fence though. Anybody here has any idea of the length of the game?

8 Hours and completely linear according to Skill Up. He said you will either like it or dislike it but he personally liked it.

Just try it on gamepass before deciding if you think it's worth a purchase.