Capcom’s Pragmata was first shown in 2020, and Willem Hilhorst says the wait ended with a surprise worth having. In a review published April 13, 2026 at 11:00 am EDT, he said the full game on Nintendo Switch 2 is “a delightful surprise” and, in short, “excellent.”
Hilhorst opens from the experience itself: Hugh Williams is stranded on the moon after answering a distress signal from a research lab, then joins forces with Diana, a Pragmata android with the personality of an eight-year old. Diana can hack systems across the lunar facility, while Hugh carries the weapons, and the pair have to fight their way past armed robots as they search for a way back to Earth and try to understand what happened.
The scale of the setting gives the game its weight. The Delphi corporation has been using the moon to design androids and other objects with Lunafilement harvested from rare resources, but its main computer, IDUS, has gone rogue and all workers have seemingly vanished from the station. That mystery sits behind the action, and it helps explain why the reviewer says the game’s appeal is not just in the premise but in how it plays.
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The combat centers on both characters at once. Robots are practically impervious to bullets, so Diana must hack enemies to open their armor before Hugh can attack them. When the player targets a foe, a small grid appears and the face buttons guide a cube to the goal; certain nodes can trigger extra damage or enhanced effects. The review says weapons include a shotgun, a long-distance laser, a riot gun and a special shotgun that clears obstacles from the hacking grid, while reloads take time and new enemy types keep changing the rules.
That constant adjustment is where Hilhorst says the game wins. He said Diana, as a blank canvas, is curious and wants to learn more about the world around her, and wrote that “this interplay is at the heart of Pragmata and it honestly never got boring.” The first trailer, he said, did not yet give the game a strong identity, but a demo he played a few months before the review had already shown the design taking shape. By the time he finished the full game, the result was clear: “Pragmata is excellent.”
