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Car Pass does not include all cars for whatever reason.

Bought this game, played for 30 minutes (with friends, of course) and I sincerely fail to see all the hype generated. The gameplay consists of going through dark corridors, collecting scrap and going back to the ship, you got some tools you can purchase and a monster chasing you.

Maybe it's just me, but I found the experience bare-bones and lacking in gameplay, it's really not as fun as the reviews make it out to be. It maybe just isn't my cup of tea, but there are much better games to play with friends out there in my opinion.

Game of the year 2023

This is how you make a game and treat consumers right. Bless Bay 12 and Kitfox Games, sincerely hope you guys get filthy rich.

EDIT: (as of August 23rd 2023)

*Under Construction*

Original Review

EDIT: I was a bit heated at the time and have deleted a paragraph, the review should still make sense, I think everything I left is still relevant (making this edit on 4/17/2023 with a lot more hours in the game). Review should also be more Steam friendly and with less assumptions.

Multiple Other Edits: Fixing some formatting and spelling. I'm actually still fixing stuff and I'm gonna stop with all the unnecessary "Edit"s. Will try to make a major update again, soon™.



1. Denuvo Anti-Temper is in the game without any confirmation that it will be removed despite it already being cracked.

2. Currently as of this review, Nvidia has NOT released a proper Game Ready Driver for Hogwarts Legacy. (Still Relevant as of 4/17/2023)

3. Most recent patch notes on Steam (February 25th, 2023) are for the Day One Patch (10 Feb, 2023).
sidenote The last update posted (March 8th 2023) right now should be relevant.

4. Optimization is HORRID. Performance is all over the place, the game can be virtually unplayable for some despite their hardware being top of the line and great for people with much worse hardware. Tons of bugs, confusing menus, control issues, controller issues, PC binding issues, in-game bugs etc.,

5.(April 18th 2023) Less horrible and confusing marketing/communication/support for all versions especially PC. With multiple accounts and account links being required to redeem things. There are a lot of exclusive items/quests that are/or are going to be unavailable soon as of February 26th. (Including PS exclusive quest, twitch cosmetic drops, pre-order bonuses etc.,)

8. Graphics/Art Style/Atmosphere/Music/Sound is absolutely top notch. Truly amazing.

7. Gameplay is very hard to describe, some might love it, some might hate it. It’s a mishmash of mechanics from many genres with a Harry Potter theme slapped onto it. I personally think it’s great as for me it ticks all the boxes.



I received this as a gift from a friend and meanwhile I like the game itself, let me walk you through the current state of what’s going on. From a somewhat objective point of view so you can make an informed decision about this product before buying it.

The game has severe performance problems, anyone who says it runs fine on their PC without implementing additional workarounds is incredibly lucky. There is no universal workaround because of how it hugely varies depending on your system, programs, overclock settings, bios settings, windows version, update version for windows etc., There are people with 4090s getting 50fps, people with 1080Ti's getting 60+ constant, people with RTX3070Ti cards getting 30 on low, while others with those same cards have the roles completely reversed. Some can’t even launch the game. RTX suite features are mostly absolutely botched on PC (This includes DLSS, Ray Tracing, Scaling, DLAA etc.,). In summary it’s an incredibly poor PC release port.

Warner/Avalanche/Wizarding World/Portkey Games have delved into some very intentionally misleading practices or they are absolutely incompetent. There are a million different people managing this game on social media and the various platforms and currently the state of the game is absolutely a little less horrible on PC despite the “Very Positive” rating on Steam.

The community is completely split by hardcore Harry Potter fans who defend it with every tooth and nail and say that it’s a 10/10 game of the year; People who are trying to boycott it because of some political issues with JK Rowling on Twitter over things she said a long while ago; Others who don’t understand how PC’s work are saying that “You should just upgrade your PC if it runs badly”; Meanwhile some are calling everything a “conspiracy theory” and disregarding factual evidence you can easily find online and so on.

I would personally recommend NOT buying this until it’s 20 bucks with all content put in the game and fixed on PC, if it ever gets fixed. Also if you’re thinking of trying it out to see if it runs well; Do know that the majority of PC problems happen after the several hour long intro and tutorial and even if that runs well who’s to say that when you get to places like Hogsmead it wouldn’t suddenly choke itself. Point is that you may not be able to refund it on Steam because the refund policy is 2 hours or less playtime/Game purchased less than 2 weeks ago.

My favorite co-op game in a very long time, great developers, amazing support, fun gameplay, great with friends. I don't know how this flew under my radar until 2022, but I think I finally found the 4 player co-op game that can out-fun Left 4 Dead 2 after searching for a decade.

Ignore negative reviews, amazing game. It's all people trying to act morally-superior about a conflict between rich people and richer people. As a consumer you have nothing to worry about, game is great, let's stop the "cancel" culture, corporation and composers aren't our problem as customers.

Micromanagment hell made fun.

Here's a concise list of the pros and cons of Celeste, for the people afraid of reading, or are scared and intimidated of long reviews, or simply don't have the required attention span:

+Tight and simple controls
+Ridiculous level of polish
+Amazing level design
+The fluidity of Super Meat Boy plus the precession of The End is Nigh
+Constantly introduces new level mechanics
+Nice non-intrusive story and quirky characters and humor
+Great for speedrunning (has a built-in speedrun timer)
+Active speedrunning community
+Non-required collectibles (Extra Challenge)
+Tons of content (+secrets)
+Non-linear chapter progression
+Interesting puzzles
+Easy to learn, very difficult to master
+Very difficult with a touch, spoonful, ♥♥♥ bowl of extra difficulty in secret levels (but FAIR)
+Built-in cheat mode for "the less capable" accessibility
+Actual sense of "pride and accomplishment" for completing levels
+Gorgeous pixel art and animations
+Great soundtrack
+Runs on potatoes at a solid 60 FPS, no drops whatsoever (Tested on GT635M 2GB/8GB RAM/i7-3517U)
+Easy to play with both gamepads and keyboards
+Great dev! (Shoutout to Matt for being awesome and involved with the community)

-No level editor (for now, rumored by dev team)
-No leaderboards (for now)
-"R" restarts the whole chapter instead of the current level/screen (What the hell Matt? Are you trolling us or something.)
-Some people might be bothered that the main collectible (strawberries) doesn't unlock anything. Personally I like it more.

It is that good. It's a masterpiece. It's a must buy for platformer fans, and I do recommend it even if you're not that big of a fan. Quality just oozes from everywhere in this game. Lastly, Celeste somehow manages to feel unique even considering the number of good platformers currently available.

Is it worth it for full price? Definitely yes!

So me and my squad go into this town and there's a huge bug problem. We get ready to fight the bugs and realize we're severely outnumbered. So I start thinking, devising a strategy to wipe all the bugs out. I want to be sure they're all dead. So they won't infest other towns.

It finally hits me, I can kill them all, but I have to blow up one of the buildings with hundreds of civilians inside. I position my tank and blow up the entire building killing all the people inside, but preventing further infestation. My team takes care of the rest.

We won the battle and afterwards went to my place and played a bit of Into the Breach to unwind after the long tedious day of work. It's pretty fun.