May 1, 2023 - Day 121 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 136

Game: Paragon: The Overprime

Platform: Steam
Release Date: Dec 6, 2022
Library Date: Mar 9, 2023
Unplayed: 53d (1m22d)
Playtime: 33m

Paragon: The Overprime is a bit of an odd duck. It's a third-person shooter/MOBA with a history.

Many years ago, Epic Games decided to get into the MOBA space, & in August 2016 released an open beta called Paragon. In 2017, Epic released another new game, this time in the Battle Royale space, the little-known Fortnite.

For reasons lost to the mists of time, Epic chose to put all of their eggs (& devs) into one basket, pulling the plug on the Paragon servers in April 2018... then released all of the Paragon assets for free use in Unreal Engine 4.

July 17th, 2020: Strange Matter launched a game built from those assets called Fault: Elder Orb. On November 1st, 2022, Fault was shuttered.

December 6th, 2022: Netmarble released a new F2P MOBA, based on the same assets, called Paragon: The Overprime (a week after a *paid* game by different devs, called Predecessor, built on the same assets was released).

Having spent 33mins playing it, I suspect it will go the same way as its predecessors (no pun intended). There's just nothing there that isn't done better in other games like Overwatch, or more directly, Smite.

Third time probably isn't lucky for Paragon: The Overprime; it's just:

2: Meh.

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