The Valiant

The Valiant is a serviceable, squad-based RTS with a sturdy story, but it’s bogged down by backtrack-heavy battles and a bad final boss fight.

The Valiant offers an engaging story paired with a visually appealing experience that’s sure to captivate. It’s a good fit for players who don’t want overly deep strategy and are looking for something more action-packed. However, if you’re expecting a complex tactical game, this title might disappoint you. Once you’ve completed the main story, there isn’t much additional content, which may deter players seeking long-term entertainment.

The Valiant is a strategy game marred with a number of problems. Players have the option of avoiding it or picking it up on a sale if they really want to try it out. The game brings back unhappy memories of Dawn of War 2 and how badly it failed, even though The Valiant does have some positive points to write home in its favor including its historical setting. Nevertheless, this is definitely not the game I’ll recommend if someone asks me for strategy game recommendations at a party.

The Valiant is a standard RTS and an above-average videogame. The visuals are spectacular, the gameplay is textbook, but the audio could have had some more tweaking.

On PS5, The Valiant is just as playable and enjoyable as on PC, even if it's not quite as good-looking.

Generally, The Valliant on consoles is a success. Controls make sense and don’t inhibit the flow. Whatever issues there are lie in the core of the game. A lack of mechanical originality and some repetitive or frustrating missions are offset by a decent story and acting. It’s also refreshing to play a unit-based RTS game that isn’t set in WW2 or a sci-fi world.

The Valiant is an RTS that doesn't invent anything new. It does not present a great novelty in the genre and the feeling it leaves is that we have already seen everything in other titles. It is true that constantly innovating is complicated, we do not deny it, but there is always some element or something that stands out, which we do not find in this title.

The Valiant is a good traditional RTS with unexpected commitment in a narrative campaign across medieval Europe. Unfortunately, there is a number of compromises about gameplay that make the fights tiring to manage, especially with the controller.

A solid medieval-themed real-time strategy game on PS5

With a well-calibrated gameplay and a truly evocative setting, The Valiant has the potential to find a second youth on consoles, succeeding in offering everyone the right level of challenge and achieving good results with a controller. Even if a bit repetitive and somewhat tiring, it's undoubtedly a convincing and addictive RTS.