Gothic 1 Remake Launches at €49.99 With UE5.4 Rebuild and No Minimap

3 articles · Updated · Tech Times · Jun 5

June 5 brings Gothic 1 Remake to Steam, GOG, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S in a simultaneous global launch, with PC priced at €49.99 and consoles at €59.99.
Unreal Engine 5.4 underpins a full rebuild rather than a visual touch-up, expanding the map by about 20%, adding over 600 unique NPC faces and reworking combat around directional animations instead of dodge-roll conventions.
Performance is a key buyer consideration: Alkimia backported UE 5.7-style PSO pre-caching to cut shader stutter, but the game still requires an SSD at every tier and can drop from 85-90 FPS to 30-35 FPS at 4K on max settings.
Navigation is deliberately harsher than modern open-world norms, with no minimap or quest compass; players must ask NPCs for directions, buy maps and read the environment.
Review copies arrived late, leaving launch-day verdicts limited; Metacritic's embargo lifts June 6 and fuller reviews are expected the week of June 8 after a seven-year redevelopment from the scrapped 2019 prototype.