Category: Tainted Grail

How Successful will Tainted Grail and the Fall of Avalon be on Steam?

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Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon has the prospect of being one of the year’s most successful video games.

It is a retelling of Arthurian legend in dark fantasy style which is similar to Dark Souls. Some have stated that the game is basically Skyrim meets Dark Souls, which is pretty accurate.

Skyrim and Dark Souls share similarities in the aesthetics and I think that is to their benefit in some sense. Oblivion is a game that really appeals to the High Fantasy fiction which was popular around the time of the Lord of the Rings was released in the early 2000s. Tainted Grail is a fusion of the harsh gameplay of Dark Souls with the RPG gameplay of Skyrim. Such a wedding of two great genre defining games is a great boon to Awaken Realm’s efforts to strike gold in a tough consumer market with so many choices and huge game backlogs.

It is important that the game succeeds. The question is, will it be successful on Steam.

I believe that it will make money but there is a nuance here. How much money will it make and how many users will it have on the site?

I think that Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon will probably have maybe above 50,000 users. Considering that the game is cheap and only 44.99, I think for many cash-strapped gamers, this will be a great deal for anyone looking for similar game to Skyrim or Dark Souls.

Considering how the game has been in early access and Awakens Realms has been devoted to the improvement of the game, I am confident we will have Kingdom Come Deliverance success for this Polish company.

I wish the game the best of luck in bringing Arthurian legends to people’s consoles and PCs.

Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon and the synergy with Oblivion Remastered Edition.

Above is a beautiful image of the sunlight in the Oblivion Remaster. While I have some issues with the graphic style, the remaster is a remarkable achievement and brings Oblivion out of the shadows of Skyrim’s dominance in the memory of gamers.

However, Oblivion Remaster’s success is not just about the game alone but also about its contemporary titles. While Oblivion Remaster is an uplift of an old game, it is having a true effect on the market and other games. More specifically, one of those games is Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon. With its release this week on May 23rd, 2025, it will be interesting to see whether Oblivion managed to increase interest in RPGs of this type. Oblivion and Tainted Grail are quite similar with one another though they have differences. However, the similarities are stronger and I hope to see how Tainted Grail performs after its release.

Oblivion Remastered’s Censorship gives an opening to Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon’s beautiful women.

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The Oblivion Remastered Edition has been censoring women. While these changes are small, it is clear that Bethesda Softworks is still going through the process of ”cleaning up” its games. If you compare the screenshot of my character on the left and the screenshot of a drawn woman in Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon, it is clear that there are two trends happening here.

Having Intimacy in Bethesda Games

Originally, Oblivion was rated ”T” by the ESRB in America. However, after mods in 2006 were taking the clothes off the female characters, the game was re-rated as “M” or mature. The same thing happened to other popular games such as GTA: San Andreas. The video game industry was much bigger than it had been in the 1990s but it was still under the cover. Many people were not paying attention to it.

However, it was clear that the transition of themes relating to relationships between characters began to change between Fallout 3 and Fallout 4, where there is a clear shift in how Bethesda approached the issue of player choice and how they could interact with characters of the opposite or same sex.

Fallout 3 had many brutal and sensous characters. However, Fallout 4 was a strange game that did not repersent a progression of the mythos but more of a regression. The sequel was more about domesticity stolen than anything else. The game starts in the Pre-War suburbs of Boston and the all the beauty of domesticity and family life are broken by atomic bombs being dropped on America. Fallout 4 however refuses to allow the player to be anything but a mother or father searching for their son.

This trend meant that Bethesda did not want to make attractive women characters anymore. Any hint of any intimacy in the games was taken out and instead it was hidden behind violence and better shooting mechanics.

The charm that made the Bethesda games simply unique was taken away from the games.

What Tainted Grail can bring some beauty back into games

While this is only a small section of the game, having the image of a woman that is beautiful in a game is enough to garner some outrage in some circles. However, among gamers who think with the heads, are going to be okay with it. That is what matters here. They shouldn’t be trying to appeal to people who have no interest in playing video games. In my previous article on Tainted Grail, I say that it has the potential with becoming the next Skyrim. With the genre being so stagnant, it is clear that there is something needed in order to get to be needed to revigoriate it.