Many long-time players and fighting game fans remember ArcheBlade as a unique and underrated game. Players praised CodeBrush Games for mixing classic fighting game combos with fast 3D arena combat. The gameplay was deep and skill-based, requiring good timing, blocking, movement, and strategy to defeat opponents. Fans also liked that the game was fair for free-to-play users because real-money purchases only included cosmetic items like armor and weapon skins, with no pay-to-win features.
However, recent reviews became very negative because the developers suddenly stopped supporting the game. Players say the game was abandoned with many problems still unfixed, including visual bugs, poor online connections, and empty matchmaking servers. Today, the official servers are offline, and peer-to-peer matches usually suffer from heavy lag and connection issues. Since the developers never added offline bots or official modding tools before leaving, many fans feel sad that such a well-designed game can no longer be properly played by most people.