Last Epoch

About 13% of analyzed reviews raise the paid classes, more than any other complaint. Reviewers report that on 25 November 2025 the developers announced the Orobyss expansion, free for existing owners, together with "Paradox" classes sold as paid DLC, after years of saying the box price covered all future gameplay content; some quote the Kickstarter page. The objections center on that promise and on timing more than on price: paying for classes in a paid game that already has a cosmetic shop, before the campaign is finished and while existing classes have bugs. "Paid classes for a game with an unfinished campaign. Nice," wrote one. Others quote the store page's "Zero Pay-To-Win" line and expect the paid classes to be stronger than the free ones. A smaller group defends the move as the price of keeping the game alive: "I'd rather have half the content be locked behind a paywall than not get any new content at all."

Several hundred reviews mention the cosmetic shop, supporter packs or skins, many of them alongside the paid-class complaint. A few say supporter packs cost more than the game, others that the cosmetics are unappealing ("Too bad there is not a single good looking MTX in the game to buy"), and that legendary and unique items have no distinct look, so characters only look good through the shop. Some also want a free transmog system and the use of bought cosmetics in offline mode.

Bug reports come mostly from players with hundreds of hours. They describe skill nodes, passives and uniques that do not work as their tooltips say, dungeon and monolith objectives that fail to complete, and occasional item or stash loss after crashes or season resets. One player wrote that "much of the research you have to do for a particular skill involves seeing whether it is bugged or not." Several say the same bugs have been reported since early access.

Players list LE-65, LE-52 and LE-61 errors, failed zone transitions, rubber-banding and disconnects that cost progress or kill hardcore characters. Season launches get the angriest reviews: players say servers have gone down at almost every start since 1.0 in February 2024. "Welcome to a 5th season of Error 65," wrote one. Some players in distant regions also report high latency.

Frame drops in dense monoliths and arenas, memory leaks that require restarts, crashes on alt-tab or zone changes, and Unity errors after updates are reported, often on high-end hardware. "Memory leak still there," one review reads. Others say performance improved after the 2025 engine updates, so experiences vary by system.

A smaller group complains that the story still stops partway through, years after the game left early access, and that the expansion is now expected to finish it. "The campaign just suddenly ends without any kind of resolution," as one put it. Some also find the time-travel story confusing or the writing weak.

A smaller but persistent group lists the gaps between seasons, which reviewers count as 14 months from Season 1 to Season 2 and six to nine months for later ones ("14 months between season 1 and 2."), and says each season adds too little for the wait.

Seasonal characters must run the campaign again, and dungeon shortcuts do not satisfy everyone: "I. AM. SICK. OF. THE. CAMPAIGN. EVERY. SEASON. EVERY. CHARACTER." Veterans ask for a full campaign skip.

Players report that any connected joystick, wheel or pedals can be detected as a controller and lock out mouse and keyboard (one player cannot "play with my joysticks plugged in because it thinks those are controllers"), along with clumsy menu navigation and no twin-stick aiming on a gamepad.

Each class has a fixed character, and some players, more often newer ones, say it put them off the game: "Gender-Locked Classes. No Character Customization."

Steam achievements were promised and never added, which a small group cites as one more broken promise: "promised us achievements, still waiting..."

Online, leaving a zone through a town portal resets it, wiping minimap progress and loot left on the ground: "if you use a town portal it resets the map you were in."

Around the Season 5 launch, a handful of players reported that "full offline" mode now contacts the server, that new terms of service had to be accepted before playing, and that data collection could not be refused. "Removed full offline mode without any announcement or patch notes," wrote one.