I thought long and hard about whether I should actually write a negative review about this game.

Because: I really tried to enjoy it. Now I've decided to simply leave my impressions.

The game isn't bad. The visuals and the 80s-Robocop-feeling are great. The skill system is okay, but somehow secondary to the story. The AUTO9-chip-system is a fun mini-game, but quickly loses its fun and purpose. The battles are fun once you get used to the combat-system, although the bosses are more annoying than challenging. Once you've leveled up the combat skills, you can have fun with slow motion effect, flashlight and shield. However, picking up secondary weapons only makes limited sense.

The story is unfortunately quite boring. The motivation wears off very quickly. Why have only 30% of players of a 50-euro-game played to the end at this point? Did they fall asleep and then simply forget about the game? It's too linear, 70% of the time you're just running walking around. It's too repetitive, both the main story and the side stories are unfortunately not attractive. Apart from a few missions, you're tortured through the game. At a certain point I was just playing to get all the achievements and just wanted to skip dialogs in hope, the final ist good... and finally it was just okay. :-(

Too bad, dear developers. There could have been more..... Open-world. No “tunnel missions”. The opportunity to explore a large city yourself. The story was very weak. A lot of potential was wasted. A great pity.

**Update** After some nudging from a friend, I decided to give this another try. I reinstalled the game and changed some of the settings that worked for him. I don't know which one worked so I will list them all here: First was to turn off DLSS and turn on the one for Intel (XESS I think it was called). Second was to turn frame rate to unlimited. Finally 3rd was to put the game on my NVME drive it was originally on a regular SSD. I now have 8-10 hours in and am having a good time. The runtime on steam says 19 as of this updated review, for some reason (I think one of my crashes left it "running" and didn't shut er down all the way one time, not sure).

Also, the devs reached out right away so there is something to be said about their effort. I have changed my review to thumbs up for now but if the crashes come back, I will update it back to thumbs down again. There is a sidebar though, we shouldn't have to make a bunch of settings in a game to make it work when it supposedly auto detects all your settings and adjusts accordingly. I would give it a 3 star out of 5 but steam only gives pass/fail grades. Buy at your own risk and if you have issues, hopefully the "workarounds" work for you too. Thanks for reading!! **end updated rant**

*Most of the original review* I want to start off and say that I really want to like this game and I really love the first 2 Robocop movies. It looks like it has the Robocop "world" down. The atmosphere is typical for the era and the movies. That's great and all but it doesn't stay running. I have tried all the "tips" that people have on the discussions and nothing works; keep in mind that in this day and age you shouldn't have to resort to tips to make a game run. FFS this is 2024. The game constantly crashes. It crashes on loading between door ways, it crashes on picking up an item, it crashes on an explosion, it crashes while in the skill menu...I could go on. I have just over 2 hours in and I am barely past the 2nd mission because I have to wait for the tremendous load time and 10 minutes of black screen before it loads in only to have it crash. I would refund but I am past the date. I have hundreds of games on steam and so far this is only the second game that is this broken and won't run even with "tips" and workarounds. My system is well equipped to run this and anything else I throw at it but this game just won't stay running.

You might have luck getting it to run, but I can tell you that I am not the only one that is having these issues. Shame, it seems like a very good game for those that can get it to work. Maybe on console it works??

I really liked this game more than I expected at first. I felt that there were like some things done that can only be appreciated with subtitles (The Citizens are just categorized by emotion). Sometimes there are also unique spelling choices. On an irony level it's hard to tell if this is a metacommentary or just developer efficiency, or any number of other reasons.

If you are a fan of the original Movies, or the series, you will enjoy this. Normal is not the most difficult but it does provide challenges.