Review

Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy

Asobo Studio's first A Plague Tale spin-off, sending young fighter Sophia to a Greek myth-soaked island fifteen years before the events of the main series. Is it your kind of game?

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Game Avant verdict

A beautiful, well-paced prequel that swaps the series' sneaking for parry-driven combat and light puzzles; most critics enjoy it, and the main complaints are repetition and a few launch glitches.

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By GameAvant · Published Oct 13, 2026 · 12 min read

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82%

34 ratings

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92%

3,841 reviews

Fits you if

you want an atmospheric single-player adventure with strong art direction and a mythological mystery, you like parry-based melee mixed with puzzles, and you are happy to start the series with a prequel.

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you are mainly after the tense stealth and rat swarms of the first two games, you dislike puzzle-heavy pacing, or you want multiplayer or co-op of any kind.

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Platforms: Xbox · PC · PlayStation
Release date: August 27, 2026
Length: About 12 hours
Difficulty: 3/5 (estimated)
Genres: Adventure
Themes: Action · Historical · Drama
Perspective: Third person
Modes: Solo only
Languages: 3 languages
Text in your language: Yes
Steam Deck: Verified
Microtransactions: None

More about Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy

Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy is the first major spin-off in Asobo Studio's A Plague Tale series, and it steps back fifteen years before the events of A Plague Tale: Requiem to follow Sophia, a young fighter who appeared only briefly as a side character in that earlier game. Her story is self-contained: the game works as a standalone entry, so newcomers can start here without having played Innocence or Requiem first, though longtime fans will recognize extra connections along the way. Released on 27 August 2026 for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, it moves the series away from plague-ridden medieval France and onto Minotaur's Island, a ruin-filled Mediterranean location steeped in Greek mythology, with frescoes, collapsed temples and the lingering presence of old legends built directly into the environment. Sophia's own goal driving the plot is personal rather than protective: she is searching for concrete answers about her own past, a clear departure from Amicia's sibling-focused journey in the earlier games. The core gameplay shift is deliberate and significant. Where Amicia was a vulnerable child whose main tool against danger was avoidance, Sophia is a trained fighter, and Resonance builds its combat around that difference directly. Parries sit at the center of every fight: reading an enemy's attack and countering it at the right moment opens them up to a direct execution, and that same parry-and-counter rhythm carries through the entire campaign rather than being an occasional option. Sophia also has a grapple hook for both combat positioning and traversal, along with a set of thrown objects and unlockable skills that expand her toolkit gradually as the story progresses, giving players real choices in how to approach a given fight rather than one fixed solution. Puzzles sit alongside combat as the other major system, built around a light-emitting artifact Sophia carries throughout the island. Light and mirror-based puzzles use that artifact to redirect beams, reveal hidden paths or solve environmental obstacles, and they are deliberately spaced between combat encounters to vary the pacing rather than clustering into one dedicated puzzle section. The island itself is linear rather than open, guiding players along a specific path through its ruins with relatively little backtracking required, which keeps the roughly 20-hour campaign tightly paced from one set piece to the next. Stealth has not disappeared entirely, but its role has shrunk considerably compared to the earlier games. Rather than being the primary way to survive most encounters, it resurfaces mainly during the game's horror sections, where Sophia is deliberately vulnerable again and direct confrontation is not an option. Those sections lean into creature encounters and sustained dread, and they stand out as some of the most distinct material in the campaign precisely because they briefly return to the tension the series built its reputation on before handing control back to combat and puzzles for the rest of the island. The opening hours are deliberately light on explanation, dropping players into Sophia's search without much immediate context, and the story takes some time to establish its stakes before picking up pace. Players who want a complete picture of what Minotaur's Island actually is, and why Sophia's past is tied to it, will find that picture fills in gradually rather than all at once.

The thing you'll love. Or hate.

Swordplay over sneaking

Puzzles as the rhythm

A guided, linear island

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Frequently asked questions

How long is Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy?: About 12 hours to finish the main story.
Which platforms is Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy on?: Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy is available on Xbox · PC · PlayStation.
Does Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy have co-op?: No, Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy is single-player only.
Does Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy run on Steam Deck?: Verified
What does Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy cost?: $49.99 on Steam.