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Sacred Citadel
Developer Southend
Sacred Citadel is a side-scrolling action brawler video game in the Sacred series. It was released in April 2013, and takes place before the 2014 sequel Sacred 3. It was developed by Southend Interactive and published by Deep Silver for Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, and Microsoft Windows. A DLC called Sacred Citadel: Jungle Hunt was released on the same month. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
186 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Sep 22, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
60
Fresh
109 positive · 72 negative
95% range 53–67%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 109 | 72 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
5 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mixed
823 of 1,199 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 186 · most liked firstSlow and totally uninspired. for a game that obviously takes huge influence from classics like Golden axe it manages to miss the point on every level. i found it a chore literally just finishing the first level. looks good but character animations are slow and clumsy like a Nickelodeon cartoon. repetitive enemies and sounds. i wont be palying this again.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The first time I tried to install it Steam said that there was some kind of problem during installation progress, thank you Steam for trying to save me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not the worst beat'em'up I have ever played. Feels like an android port gone wrong. I just do not find this game fun at all and I love arcade style games. If you can get it in a bundle or for less than $2, maybe then buy it, otherwise its just not worth it to me. I do like the art style and paralax scrolling, it may not be polished, but the thing that kills it for me is the clunky gameplay. Very rarely do I not like button mashing, but this one just falls on its face.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Doesn't support resolutions above 1600x900. I don't know how this is overlooked, but this is pathetic for a game that was released in 2013.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →May the gods watch over you. Farewell...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is okay, but only, okay. It didn't cost very much and I still feel like I didn't exactly get my money's worth. The persepctive dimensions are unclear. Half the time your toon is not on the spot you think he is. Am I hitting this guy or not? Am I picking up this health ham or not? Who knows? Just roll the dice and take your chances...these are not the signs of a good design. The controls aren't great. The feel of combat...not really there. I feel like I'm wacking paper with a ruler…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →𝔸 𝕊𝕒𝕔𝕣𝕖𝕕 𝕓𝕖𝕒𝕥 '𝕖𝕞 𝕦𝕡? ℍ𝕞𝕞𝕞... (𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕪 𝕊𝕌𝕊) Sacred Citadel is a colorful, side-scrolling beat ’em up set in the Sacred universe; a franchise that's known more for its groundbreaking RPG games that shook the world at some point in the past. Does Sacred work well as a beat 'em up? Let's find out! At its core, Sacred Citadel is straightforward: pick a class, smack hordes of monsters, collect loot, and unleash flashy combos. It’s simple, sometimes too simple, but…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sacred Citadel is a ok game but it's a rather boring beat'm up. one of the issues is you can out level content if you grind and you will also need to grind to beat the final boss as he is way to strong when you get there. this is one of the issues with leveling in games like this without some kind of balance, content is level 1-10 with a max player character level of 99 and the boss is set to level 120. there also seem to be random glitches. the game has 4 playable characters with 4 acts with…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The controls are unreliable, the combat is slow and grindy, the combo system is lame, the enemies are too simmilar and reused too much, and the art is just so-so. The game is just a chore to play. There are a few neat concepts, but the execution is just terrible.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cashgrab garbage with a known title of a good game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not good, not bad just meh. It's a game that feels like a mobile port looking at the graphics and how the game plays.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you are searching for a fun and non-ripetitive game, this isn't for you. The game starts off very well, 4 heroes , a linear story, and a nice view. After the first level, you're going to see the same enemies again,again,again,agAIN AND AGAIN. The enemy are stupid, they stand still ,they have too much health, you don't do damage, the special abilities are (almost) worthless, if you are playing co-op the game glitches itself and you can not continue, unless your friend plays that level…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Supaaar BORING! Even I played with my friends D: It's got a great art design but damn weak combo system that Beat'm'Up should have... Soundtrack are not that good too
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game that starts off kinds fun....but then slowly drains your soul. You will just slowly stare at screen, painfully, until the game emotionally waterboards you level by level. This game is a disaster wrapped in confusion. Half the time you can’t tell where enemies actually ARE. So what happens? You start panic-mashing buttons like a caffeine-addicted cave goblin because the enemy positioning makes less sense than microwave instructions written by philosophers. The enemy standing in the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is an extremely boring and cookie cutter fantasy themed beat'em up. It's like if you took D&D's Tower of Doom and Shadow over Mystara (or almost any 90s beat'em up arcade game) and removed all of the fun, flavor, spells, and engaging game mechanics. The gameplay is technically solid, but it's just disappointing and boring.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sacred Citadel is a 2D style beat'em-up with light RPG mechanics. Each of the 4 characters have their own triats and attacks that can be used to take down enemies with, furthermore, each of them can benefit from certain stats that can be increased when you level up. For example, the Safiri benefits from increasing their strength stat, whereas the Ranger can benefit from the Dextirity stat. The game isn't too long and is quite fun played co-op. The DLC adds a new chapter to play through that…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Odd control scheme choice, but it doesn't hinder the game. Fun stuff.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cant recommend this one. Game overall is just plain boring even co-op couldnt make this game any fun for me. The fighting system is boring and dull,there arent many combos and and it usually commes down to hit them as often as you can with normal attacks then make one heavy to knock them down and just keep on doing this while hoarding the enemies in one side. Only problem are big ones you cant knock down , but a potion or ultimate abillity does the trick. The game is only difficult because…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The name of a great ARPG was misused for this stinking pile of garbage. Boring, slugish, bad controls, horrible graphic settings and annoying music. Don't buy this game. You have been warned.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →informational review it works on Linux with Proton, acceptable performance, no technical issues. controller works and controls feel OK. besides that, it's a bit boring brawler with unappealing visual style. has humor but that's the only good thing about the game itself. I'm not a big fan of brawlers, I've got it from Sacred bundle and would consider it as bonus content (forgettable but can be enjoyable for few hours) won't recommend to buy this game separately, it's average.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is the epitome of a cashgrab. Its short, its boring, its overpriced and it has nothing to do with the game it shares a title with. I played it for barely 3h and finished all 5 acts. Honestly, unless you can get it for super duper cheap its not worth your time or money and even then its a gamble.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is just not very exciting. Combat is pretty boring, and all characters play more or less the same, despite being different classes. Leveling up and gaining new abilities is nice in theory, but you don't choose what you get, you simply get a few standard Beat'em Up moves as you gain new level, so there isn't anything worth looking forward to. There was a lot of potential in the game, but it feels wasted. Sacred Citadel is at best a passable Beat'em Up... If that's all you're looking…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Amazingly fun coop beat'em up in the spirit of good old Golden Axe. Up to 3 players can play either online or on the same PC. Combat is fluid, you earn experience, gain levels to increase stats and gain new combo attacks or special attacks. Graphics are very nice, cell-shading definetely helps here, the game dosent have the feel of being outdated even in 2019. Be sure to check out my steam curator and subscribe to take part in giveaways for group members!…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A terrible piece of software. A game released in 2013, but doesn't even have a 1920x1080 resolution in-game. You have to edit some .ini files to get it. It's a super buggy game. Every act has some stupid random bugs that can either freeze your character, make loot inaccessible or you enemies stuck outside of your screen which prevents you from going further. Even one boss fight is bugged. The controls are clunky. Really dislike how roll mechanic is implemented. Feels way too inconvenient and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sacred Citadel answers the question 'is there a modern version of Golden Axe that is both fun and avoids 16 bit nostalgia?'. Highly recommended for fans of local co op side scrollers.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Only being able to run maximum res of 1600*900 is lil poopy but besides that an enjoyable couch co-op hack n slash.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Boring, lacking and fundamentally broken.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Coop Review This game is a blast to play with a friend online. My Friend is on a Verizon hotspot (CA) and I was the host (IL) and we did not have any issues at all. No grame crashes as well. Combat starts off slow and builds up as you unlock moves. The mobs do take a bit to kill, you do get a combo number that builds which is fun to watch get to X99. When this game is on sale for $5 and you have a friend or 2 that you can play with, buy it!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good ol Memories
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had come back to this game after years of having played it. Apparently I didn't finish it before, and honestly, I didn't remember anything of it. That say a lot of hop much of an impression it made on me, for good or bad. In general, it has nothing new to offer, and it starts VERY basic, almost to the point to think it doesn't worth the time and abandoning it (like I did on the first round coming back to it). It certainly takes off as the game advances, the levels are fairly entertaining to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The violation of the Sacred Temple Continues Ah... there's a lot to debate on with the Sacred Series, both the good side and the bad, but, hey! Let's be honest, Sacred is one of the best Fantasy RPGs ever made, accompanied by Diablo 1&2. Huge potential, fun to play, kinda silly, but even now it is a decent game to come back to and play. Well, forget about all of this, let's talk about Sacred Citadel - a very mediocre action kind of a platformer beat'em up game with a very overextended story…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Worst game to get 100%, not due to difficulties, game is super easy, but it has TONSSSSS of glitches and bugs that makes you rage quit 24/7, me and my friends couldn't stand the game's gameplay design. Castle Crashers is x10 better that this ♥♥♥♥, DO NOT BOTHER 100% this one if you haven't got any achievements
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good potential wasted. The music is terrible. The voice acting is bizarre. The plot and dialogue, admittedly hardly needing to be Shakespearean in a beat em up, are lacking. It's almost hard to imagine anybody involved had any investment in the project working out. You could ignore those facts if the mechanics of the game were satisfying, you could... Unfortunately the cardinal sin of this game is that the enemies take ridiculous amounts of damage to defeat, I imagine this is to draw out the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good game, Good gameplay, Play together up to 3 players with your friends
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I won't lie, this game is pretty good! The only problem is that it carries the name of a famous franchise that is Sacred. As what happened with Sacred 3, players were expecting something good, but in the same genre of it's predecessors. Sacred 3 failed to deliver the same experience we had before, and that's why it faded to dust. But Sacred Citadel is good in every aspect (gameplay, controls, sound and graphics), just not good enough to be a Sacred game. For a platform/beat'em-up based on a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a fun return to the fantasy beat em ups of yore. It's like Golden Axe, but modern and better in every way. I like the gameplay, graphics, music, story, rpg elements, and voice acting. I played it by myself and still enjoyed it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Un jeu sympas à plusieurs avec un petit côté RPG 3 joueurs max local ou en ligne.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sacred 2, 3 and Sacred Citadel Bought whole series(minus remaster of 2, which wasn't out at the time), but only played 1, which is my childhood game. That Citadel game doesn't look at all like Sacred game tbh, where's Seraphim!?
unlabelledView post →The game is fine, but it's just a rehash of a generic hack and slash with nothing interesting about it. You will get bored after the fourth mission or money back guaranteed
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First the good, the story is kinda nice. And the locations seems to have some cool lookings. Now the bad, the combat its just to repetetive and barebone slow and not fluid. its so bad i cant tell you how bad it is. but rly dont get the game its no fun to fight in a beatm emup sidescroller! thats the most importent part.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not bad, there are some other bugs and balance at times, but nothing serious. The game is quite simple. Best with a discount.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very fun game to play with your friends! Recommended!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is fun in a shallow kind of way. It's basically just a button masher with RPG elements. Compared to the other games in the "Sacred" series it's a lot more simplistic since you move from linear area to linear area killing enemies and picking up weapons. The game can be completed in under five hours and all of the characters play pretty similarly. The only one that really requires an adjustment to play style is the mage. The ranger is way overpowered and his special move can…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TL;DR A decent golden axe homage Wot I liked - Fluid, responsive combat. There're many different attacks, charge attacks, air juggling and combos; - Characters provide limited variability. Each hero has his flavor or movements and a unique heavy attack and specials; - There are actually several vehicles you can fight in; - Fun enemies to bash; - Somewhat different items provide basic customization - you can choose an element to pummel baddies with. Wot I disliked - Some monsters can be…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Boring and buggy. Especially buggy in coop play.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sacred Citadel fast game with modern day graphics with easy controls that moves from location A to B to C and so on, good game. Personal Suggested Purchase Price: $0.49 Or Less During Sale
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Love this game! :) It's fun to play with friends! :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sacred Citadel is a Golden Axe style 2D/"3D" scrolling arcade beatemup with multiplayer story modes, which should be somewhat viable. Graphics and controls are fine, but bewilderingly, despite the 2013 release date, there's no support for the most basic 1080p resolution, let alone 4K or even proper widescreen scaling. It's just incomprehensible so much work went into a game that doesn't display properly even on the most common monitors of the era it was released in. These guys are probably…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TL;DR: LOCAL CO-OP DOES NOT SAVE PROGRESS- Online play requires a differnt user and different copy of the game. Problem since 2013 Link here to an old Thread: https://steamcommunity.com/app/207930/discussions/0/810923021648218887/ DO NOT BUY THIS IF YOURE LOOKING FOR LOCAL CO-OP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This game only saves its progress through the champaign while online, but you cant not use LOCAL co-op while creating a private or public game. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I am…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Slow, clunky combat. Weird hitboxes/hurtboxes.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A friend of mine gifted this game to me and first i thought it was a really bad game, but then i played it with my friend and i realized that it was actually a very great game! It's a good 2d combo game and you often try to steal each other's items with your friend. It has many good and hard achievements and the game's downsides are the lack of missions and it feels like you are always doing the same combos and this makes you get bored after a while.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What an absolute waste of money. Between the clunky keyboard controls, even clunkier pad controls, boring and unengaging combat, being able to have only one character of a class and the ability to strike only left and right this is nigh unplayable. And if this isnt enough for you there is no online community so you're playing a clunky co-op brawler ALONE after you pay for this DO NOT BUY THIS
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game broke level 4-2, 2 player 1 enemy is bugged so can not carry on. Edit:Fixed the bug by playing in a window @ 1600x900 game is fun but very buggy
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I didn't enjoy this. The controls are awkward, the persepctive is strange. You never know where you really stand. The biggest problem is the grinding to get to a higher level to be able to beat the monsters. I really don't like this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →From what little I've played this game, it seems to have promise. The classes were pretty cool, especially the mage and shaman, and the graphics were nice. What stopped me playing though was the lack of controller support. Either there is none, or it's simply not recognizing my X-Box One controller. Though I've played plenty of games with keyboard and/or mouse only, this game feels a little awkward using that scheme. Ultimately, I consider this a mixed review, as I would love to play more, but…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game would be great if the multiplayer actually worked and didn't crash and make it impossible for my friends to load into my game or me to load into my friends
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a very fun beat-em up. I enjoyed playing it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gets boring pretty fast but it still is quite fun to play with a friend.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Despite the fact literally nobody seems to be online anymore, this is a very good game. Since I haven't anyone to play with, I haven't gotten the DLC, but I plan on doing so later because overall the game is very fun to play.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sacred Citadel, developed by Southend Interactive and published by THQ Nordic, is a curious offshoot of the Sacred series that trades the sprawling, loot-driven action RPG structure for a far more contained side-scrolling brawler format. Set in the familiar world of Ancaria, the game attempts to ground its story within the larger Sacred lore by presenting a conflict against the Ashen Empire, but the narrative mostly functions as a backdrop rather than a driving force. The real focus here is on…
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