Returnal™

17 of the 104 reviews raise this · 8 of them still recommend the game.

“The game is exhausting. It doesn't respect the player's time and grind because the ideal run is SO LONG. One bad room and the entire hours long run is in the bin. Progressing is a painful process. The adrenaline system…”

“Great shooting, beautiful graphics, nice particle effects, bullet hell, amazing sound, great feedback with PS5 controller (rumble, trigger resistance). This is not the game for me though. All you do is repeat the same…”

“It's AAA Hades, plus platforming, minus the satisfying progression from run to run, with a difficulty slider permanently stuck on masochistic. Punishment for mistakes is extremely severe—get hit just a couple of times…”

13 of the 104 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.

“The game is exhausting. It doesn't respect the player's time and grind because the ideal run is SO LONG. One bad room and the entire hours long run is in the bin. Progressing is a painful process. The adrenaline system…”

“It's AAA Hades, plus platforming, minus the satisfying progression from run to run, with a difficulty slider permanently stuck on masochistic. Punishment for mistakes is extremely severe—get hit just a couple of times…”

“I tried to like this game but in the end I think its gameplay is significantly flawed. This is a rogue-like, so I understand that once you die you must start over and that the rooms will shuffle around. What I don't…”

10 of the 104 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.

“I don't write reviews often, but here we go. I run a fairly optimized rig with a 5080. however some how this game will fight for its life to have anything close to stable, with many drops into 30 fps during cinematic…”

“Sony published titles aren't optimized at all for an enhanced experience and the frame generation in this game seems completely broken. As many mention, the game stutters and has terrible frame pacing. The game was…”

“This game is amazing if you like dopamine rush its gonna hook you real good, though I must warn people that you need a pretty beefy PC to play it, my current specs on low make some of the biomes harder to navigate…”

10 of the 104 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.

“It would be a pretty cool game, if they would just fix it.”

“When I played this on PS5 it was great. It wont even load now. Crashes at shader compilation....”

“So buggy. It worked for a while on my 4080 super then decided it didnt want to load anymore. The game is so fun when it works, but its a console port there's no reason why this should be so buggy.”

5 of the 104 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.

“The game is exhausting. It doesn't respect the player's time and grind because the ideal run is SO LONG. One bad room and the entire hours long run is in the bin. Progressing is a painful process. The adrenaline system…”

“I tried to like this game but in the end I think its gameplay is significantly flawed. This is a rogue-like, so I understand that once you die you must start over and that the rooms will shuffle around. What I don't…”

“I'm giving this a middling positive review. It's a very nice game to run through for the first time, but unlike the name 'Returnal' would suggest, the roguelike aspects are severely lacking. Instead, this feels more…”