ELEX 2
ELEX 2 is a PlayStation 5 adventure game developed by Piranha Bytes. It centers on area and route exploration, story, case, or mission progress, and objective or clue progression, with controls and information arranged around the DualSense twin sticks, triggers, directional pad, and face buttons, with touchpad, motion input, adaptive triggers, and detailed haptics where the game uses them.
- AI score · out of 10
- 6.8 / 10
About this game
ELEX 2 is a PlayStation 5 adventure game centered on area and route exploration, story, case, or mission progress, and objective or clue progression. Locations, objectives, and clues gradually open the main chapters, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Theme, character expression, and environmental clues need to support exploration together, while SSD streaming, 4K and HDR output, 3D audio, performance or quality modes, and high-density interfaces need to preserve feedback and information clarity together. The genre-specific limitation is that guidance, objective triggers, camera behavior, or dense text can create search and comprehension costs. Platform conditions also include install size, SSD space, patch version, DualSense battery life, visual mode and frame rate, online dependencies, PS VR2 requirements, and cross-generation version differences affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
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Reactive worldbuilding outpaces combat and practical execution.
ELEX 2 connects factions and character reactions into consequences, while the jetpack encourages exploration. Sluggish attacks and exploitable opponents make direct encounters less convincing than the freedom surrounding them. Early quests repeatedly send players between distant characters, and skills require trainers. Progression feels embedded in the world, but travel costs often outweigh the value of those repeated interactions. Natural lighting and characters who interrupt one another give the world a lived-in quality. The science-fantasy mixture has personality, although forced exposition sometimes weakens the immersion those interactions establish. The PS5 test reports an unpaused world behind menus and actions requiring extra commitment. Those interaction constraints shape usability here; superseded launch frame-rate observations are excluded from the technical score.
Strengths
- Reactive factions and jetpack exploration.
Weaknesses
- Repetitive travel and sluggish combat.
- Unpaused menus complicate management.
Who it is for: Players who value reactive factions over polished interaction.
Play notes: Based on the 2022-02-28 target-platform test; not a current-patch performance guarantee. A performance mode arrived in May 2022 and is not independently retested.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Early quests repeatedly send players between distant characters, and skills require trainers. Progression feels embedded in the world, but travel costs often outweigh the value of those repeated interactions. | Reviewed | 6.0 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension ELEX 2 connects factions and character reactions into consequences, while the jetpack encourages exploration. Sluggish attacks and exploitable opponents make direct encounters less convincing than the freedom surrounding them. | Reviewed | 7.2 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Natural lighting and characters who interrupt one another give the world a lived-in quality. The science-fantasy mixture has personality, although forced exposition sometimes weakens the immersion those interactions establish. | Reviewed | 7.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension The PS5 test reports an unpaused world behind menus and actions requiring extra commitment. Those interaction constraints shape usability here; superseded launch frame-rate observations are excluded from the technical score. | Reviewed | 6.4 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Piranha Bytes
- Publisher
- THQ Nordic
- Release date
- Mar 1, 2022
- Platforms
- PlayStation 5
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Role-Playing · Primary genre
- Tags
- Slow BurnLinear LevelsThird Person3D GraphicsFantasyExplorationMain Story 10–20 HoursInvestigationStory-drivenSolo-friendlyPuzzle Solving
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Single player
- Perspectives
- Third person
Release editions
- PlayStation 5WorldwideMar 1, 2022
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