Edens Zero Review (PC) – I Can’t Stop Playing This Game

I am a big fan of Fairy Tail, and I heard about Edens Zero, but I never got around to watching or reading it. I was soon surprised when we got a trailer for a video game that was just about Edens Zero. I instantly got around to playing the demo before I got my hands on the game.

Game Name: Edens Zero
Platform(s): PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC (Reviewed)
Developer(s): Konami
Publisher(s): Konami
Release Date: July 15th, 2025
Price: $59.99

Edens Zero starts with you playing as Shiki, who lives in a world called Granbell. He is the only human living on a planet-wide amusement park operated solely by robots. A traveling B-Cuber named Rebecca visits and meets Shiki who instantly wants to make her his friend. After a “virus” hits the robots to hate humanity, Rebecca takes Shiki away from Granbell and towards Blue Garden. Shiki makes a goal to become an adventurer who meets the Mother of the universe.

Experiencing The Story Of Edens Zero

There are two modes in Edens Zero: Story Mode and Exploration Mode. In Story Mode, you get to go through Shiki’s adventures through space as he learns more about his adopted robot dad and meets new friends. Shiki even gets his adopted dad’s ship called Edens Zero. Eventually, the goal becomes finding the crew of Ziggy (Shiki’s adopted father). As you find more people to add to your crew, you also get more party members who will join you in the story and combat.

When you start a new chapter, you will find resting points throughout a linear map, and you have to continue to proceed forward to complete the story. The linear map is generally swarmed with monsters you can battle to level up, or you can try your best to jump over them and out of the way. The big battles are when you get to the end of the map and have to fight the boss.

As you beat more chapters in the Story Mode, you will also unlock more abilities for your characters. It is the way you get to upgrade your overboost ability, too.

Exploration Mode

Exploration Mode in Edens Zero is where I spent most of my time in the game. In this mode, you take quests from the Adventurer’s Guild and fulfill them by traveling around the large planet of Blue Garden. You start off with two ways of traveling besides walking around Blue Garden. You can fly with Shiki’s ether, which controls gravity, or you can use a motorcycle that belongs to Rebecca.

Quests range from helping deliver items to civilians in the main city to helping take down massive hordes of enemies. Most quests, even some of the delivery ones, end up with a fight of some kind. It can be a big reskin of a boss you fought in the story, but stronger, or a horde of enemies. There are repeatable quests that can be endurance fights or protecting NPCs from enemies for a period of time.

It is in Exploration mode where you get what is known as Ether sources for your party members. These help unlock more nodes on their skill trees. You will need specific characters in your party for these quests that unlock the Ether sources. The other thing that you unlock that made me spend so much time in this mode is equipment.

Equipment

My absolute favorite thing about Edens Zero is how it handles equipment. Newer games that deal with large amounts of equipment generally just use them as nothing but ways to increase your stats and retain your level. In this game, they all have different stats and different passive stat boosts for leveling up the equipment, but that is not all they do. All equipment in this game also changes the appearance of the character. When you put on a jacket, the jacket is placed on your character. Same with every other part of the equipment you find. Early on in the game, you will unlock a dress factory inside the Edens Zero ship that you can go back to and trasmog equipment to your character. That’s right, once you get equipment in your inventory you can now put that equipment cosmetically on any other character it can fit on. There is equipment geared towards Male characters and Female characters, and they can only be placed on their respective genders.

Performance Woes

I played this game on PC, and my initial thought was to play it on the Steam Deck. The performance on Steam Deck was bad, though. It ran at low settings on everything, but it would struggle trying to hit 60 FPS. Most of the time, it would hit 30-40 FPS. Now that wouldn’t be too bad if I could cap the frame limit to 60, but unfortunately, the only options you have for this port are 60 FPS or uncapped. I tried it on ROG Ally, and it was better in turbo mode, being more consistent at 60 FPS, but it would sit more around 45 – 60 FPS.

Let’s turn to the PC performance now. I run a hefty build with an NVIDIA RTX 4080 Super and AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU. On uncapped, the story mode ran at a pretty consistent 240 FPS in-game. If you want to cap the frames below 240 but above 60, you have to have your PC manually cap them. Exploration Mode, however, was a different story. It was all over the place. The lowest my build got was around 150 FPS, but it ranged from 150 – 240 FPS throughout the world map.

Bringing Edens Zero To Life

The art direction of Edens Zero looks just like it was straight out of the anime. The designs of Hiro Mashima are on display throughout the whole game. Each enemy and NPC all fit into this world. The animations look gorgeous, and the character models look good in most of the equipment you find for them. I will admit that a lot of the outfits on the girls are fan service, so if you don’t want that, you can look for more modest equipment. Luckily, there is a good variety of modest and fan service outfits.

Combat is a mix of action RPG mechanics and beat ’em up mechanics. Similar to how the inspiration of Dynasty Warriors 2 was old beat ’em up games, this has that same inspiration in spades. Each character has unique combos and playstyles. They also get more moves for your basic combo from the skill tree. Some characters can feel a little janky, like Shiki and Witch. Other ones like Homura and Rebecca are very fast, tight, and they might not dish out as much damage as Shiki, but their speed makes up for it. I played and fought a lot, and it can get annoying trying to use the ultimate as often as I do, since bosses can feel like a sponge of an enemy. I dislike enemy sponges in games, but I don’t mind it as much if the game itself is fun to play. Ultimate moves don’t do a lot of damage until you unlock the overboost activation that unlocks new forms for all the main characters. Part of me wishes you could have all your party members out for big combo attacks, but unfortunately, you can just control one character, and the other characters in your party are inactive until you choose to play as another character.

Can’t Stop Playing

I am a huge fan of beat ’em ups and the Musou Genre, and Edens Zero seems like a mix of those alongside an action RPG. The combat is fun and addicting. Unlocking outfits, finding cards, and just being able to unlock things in general feels very satisfying. I do think this isn’t a game for everyone, as there are some problems with how it tells its story, as I noted in the demo write-up. It is also at its most fun when you are not playing the story missions but going through and exploring Blue Garden. This is a game that is absolutely geared towards someone like me, so it makes sense that I just can’t put it down, but it is also one worth a try. I would recommend downloading the demo, which is available to download on all of the platforms it is available on.

Edens Zero is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.

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