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Sunset Overdrive
Sunset Overdrive transforms an open-world apocalypse into your tactical playground. Zip, grind and wall-run across Sunset City with an unconventional arsenal. Hyper-agility, unique weapons, and customizable abilities deliver an explosive and irreverent adventure in the end times.
In short, Steam reviewers most often praise “Fast-paced movement-focused action gameplay” (65 of 103 reviews) and “Humorous self-aware fourth-wall-breaking writing” (21); the most common complaint is “Persistent save corruption and crashes” (11). What reviewers agree on ↓
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-12.
What reviewers agree on
65 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Super fun game that feels like mash up of Tony Hawk meets Left 4 Dead, but is ultimately unplayable since the game constantly crashes, black screens, permanently loses weapons and UI, and corrupts all progress. How to…”
“Sunset Overdrive feels like someone mixed an energy drink with a comic book and then pressed “start.” The city is chaotic, colorful, and completely allergic to boredom. You don’t really walk anywhere — you grind rails,…”
“I wish the sun would never set in Sunset City. This game is nothing short of amazing; it's one of, if not the best, Insomniac Games has to offer. The game prioritizes fun to the point it can be a little unbalanced and…”
21 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Sunset Overdrive feels like someone mixed an energy drink with a comic book and then pressed “start.” The city is chaotic, colorful, and completely allergic to boredom. You don’t really walk anywhere — you grind rails,…”
“I wish the sun would never set in Sunset City. This game is nothing short of amazing; it's one of, if not the best, Insomniac Games has to offer. The game prioritizes fun to the point it can be a little unbalanced and…”
“It's a lot of fun, from story, dialogues, and gameplay are fantastic. It should lean towards more absurd scenarios but what we got is also fun. Port is buggy, it crashes here and there but no gameplay bugs. If it get…”
18 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Sunset Overdrive feels like someone mixed an energy drink with a comic book and then pressed “start.” The city is chaotic, colorful, and completely allergic to boredom. You don’t really walk anywhere — you grind rails,…”
“Sunset Overdrive has been a special game to me ever since I first picked it up on Xbox nearly 10 years ago, and I still remember buying it without really knowing what to expect. Recently, I saw it on Steam and decided…”
“Hidden gem cant stop relaying reguraly, not using fast travel because the traversal is sooo goood, also works great on the steam deck, just dont use coud saves its bugged, could corrupt save”
12 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Sunset Overdrive feels like someone mixed an energy drink with a comic book and then pressed “start.” The city is chaotic, colorful, and completely allergic to boredom. You don’t really walk anywhere — you grind rails,…”
“I wish the sun would never set in Sunset City. This game is nothing short of amazing; it's one of, if not the best, Insomniac Games has to offer. The game prioritizes fun to the point it can be a little unbalanced and…”
“TLDR: If you like traversal tech and wacky fourth wall breaking humor, this is the game for you. Had this game and never got around to trying it till now, and I'm happy I finally did. I'm not much of a movement or…”
11 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Sunset Overdrive has been a special game to me ever since I first picked it up on Xbox nearly 10 years ago, and I still remember buying it without really knowing what to expect. Recently, I saw it on Steam and decided…”
“Honestly, better than I thought it was going to be. Tongue in cheek skater aesthetic third person shooter with added parkour would be how I discribe this game. Don't ask me what the story is, I had the game muted while…”
“Best game ive ever played. ive played and beat this game on multiple systems and i never get tired of it!”
11 of the 103 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“Super fun game that feels like mash up of Tony Hawk meets Left 4 Dead, but is ultimately unplayable since the game constantly crashes, black screens, permanently loses weapons and UI, and corrupts all progress. How to…”
“Crashes constantly, saves corrupt.... Support your product, please, developer. Fix this game. You are currently selling a defective product. Allocate a sprint and get someone to fix this thing. It's 1 freakin' bug…”
“Hidden gem cant stop relaying reguraly, not using fast travel because the traversal is sooo goood, also works great on the steam deck, just dont use coud saves its bugged, could corrupt save”
9 of the 103 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.
“The gameplay in this is fantastic. Once you get into the movement (grinding, jumping, etc.) it ends up being a really fun time. I played a couple hours and really did try to care about the story, but the dialogue is not…”
“Sunset Overdrive has some of the most enjoyable gameplay I've ever experienced paired with the genuinely worst dialogue and story I've ever experienced in a video game. Mustache-Mumford-and-Sons Millenialcore and its…”
“Game has been running fine for me, but loading up the game for the first time I got a corrupted save file? Music also cuts out if you take too long for a mission. For a movement style 3rd person shooter movement…”
6 of the 103 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“Crashes constantly, saves corrupt.... Support your product, please, developer. Fix this game. You are currently selling a defective product. Allocate a sprint and get someone to fix this thing. It's 1 freakin' bug…”
“Sunset Overdrive is one of those games that genuinely deserved a longer life, and it's sad to see it sitting as a dead franchise. Sure, what isn't dead in the Xbox catalogue at this point, but this one in particular…”
“One of my favorite games. Still very much fun to play to this day. Wish it got a sequel but I know Insomniac is busy with other things lol. Hopefully they'll come back to this in the future!”
5 of the 103 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“The game is locked at 30 FPS, and you can't save your game. It hurts to get scammed by a game this bad even if it was on sale.”
“Way more fun than I was expecting. I kind of lost patience with a few of the missions going on a little too long, but the "Tony hawk with no skateboard" movement and the Scott Pilgrim-ish tone made up for it in my…”
“While it's RPG mechanics are a bit shallow and the humor is hit-or-miss, Sunset Overdrive is a fantastic game with lots to love. Great combat, stylish graphics, catchy music, an awesome traversal system and a light tone…”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“I wish the sun would never set in Sunset City. This game is nothing short of amazing; it's one of, if not the best, Insomniac Games has to offer. The game prioritizes fun to the point it can be a little unbalanced and…”
“It's 2026, I tried it out, it crashed a few times, saves got corrupted, uninstalled. From what I played it was pretty average, meh.”
“4/5 Gets a little repetitive halfway through and loses some of it's "wow factor" compared to the start”
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 90.0% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“I initially played this game back on the Xbox One forever ago, then I got it on Steam back in 2019 and played through it again. THEN I remembered this game here in 2026 and immediately went back for round 3, this time 100%ing it. I can't say I've played through many games 3…”
— a player, Steam review · 40 hrs played“If I had a nickel for every punk-themed, genre-blending video game published by Microsoft that was criminally denied a sequel, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice.”
— a player, Steam review · 23 hrs played“While it may have a few bugs (corrupted save file) and other minor issues at times, it's an incredibly unique and fun third person shooter. -Very fun gameplay and weapons -Perk system with whacky powers -Well crafted city/map that has plenty of distinct landmarks -Fun movement…”
— a player, Steam review · 39 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-23.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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New Update - Live Now 12/11/2018
• Fix Pre & Post Challenge leaderboards changes score after every play. • Fix The active save file has chance to be deleted during gameplay. • Fix some unlocked overdrives display grayed out when sele
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Action, Adventure |
| Player tags | Open World · Action · Parkour · Character Customization · Third-Person Shooter · Funny · Adventure · Comedy · Singleplayer · Violent · Colorful · Zombies (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Remote Play on TV · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French * , Italian * , German * , Japanese, Polish * , Portuguese - Brazil * , Russian * , Spanish - Latin America * , Spanish - Spain * * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 80 |
| Official site | https://insomniac.games/game/sunset-overdrive/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 8 or higher Processor: Intel Core i5 3470 @ 3.0hz || AMD-FX-6300 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Geforce 750 Ti || AMD Radeon R7 260X Storage: 30 GB available space