Pragmata's confidence in its punchy shootouts and old-school cool pays off, and the two leads roved their way into my heart despite a predictable plot.
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When Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog" starts playing, do you wince or start banging your head while applying extreme stank face? I think your answer will reliably predict how much you get out of Pragmata, a game that simultaneously manages to be a very familiar homage to Xbox 360-era linear third-person shooters and one of the most entertaining adventures I've played in ages.
Like Capcom's other recent left-field one-offs , it feels like a cult classic in the making, and buddy, I'm jonesing for the Kool-Aid.
What is it? A dadcore third-person shooter set on a hostile lunar base that weaves rapid-fire puzzles into its action
Release date: April 17, 2026
Developer: CAPCOM Co., Ltd
Publisher: CAPCOM Co., Ltd
Reviewed on: Windows 11, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, Intel Core i7-12700F, 16GB RAM
You play as Hugh, an astronaut stranded on a collapsing moonbase crawling with hostile robots, and Diana, a mysterious and powerful childlike android who doesn't remember why she was created. Diana can remotely hack a heat-seeking bomb to fly back into the drone that shot it out, but doesn't understand stuff like birthdays and sunsets.
Hugh, on the other hand, is way out of his depth but quickly takes on the role of her father and protector (even as Diana points out she could easily be rebuilt from spare parts).