2023 Release fiascos: Redfall

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  • Saka's Avatar
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    One of the troubled releases this year was Redfall, a Bethesda production about a town besieged by vampires. Except that at launch it was also besieged by performance issues. It was disastrous enough that the game had mostly negative reviews on Steam. Inspired by the updates I found about The Last of Us Part I, I decided to check the status for this game.

    Well... things are not looking good. This is a post I found on Reddit a week ago:

    "One week after its launch Redfall had 780 players online, two weeks after its launch it's 24-hour peak player count is 380 players online. There are 152 people playing the game at the moment."


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    I checked SteamDB and the numbers are slightly better right now with 198 players online... but it's really not much for a game that came out this month, plus it's the prime time right now.

    Another Redditor complained about apparent low effort in the development of the game, pointing out two identical corpses in the same room right at the start of the game:

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    Recent most helpful review on Steam:

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    General complaints are performance issues and lack of patches to address them, dull and boring gameplay. The game feels unfinished, with animations looking rough and AI bugging out. Many little bugs that would've been caught out if there was proper QA testing. No fixes in sight. Players are complaining that the studio used a popular theme to slap a $70 price tag on a product that is in no way worth as much.
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  • 3bkrinoo's Avatar
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    Good job for the informative thread 👏👏
    Fascinating, isn't it?