Ready or Not

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Mostly Positive · 80%Mostly Positive · 80%2023

The verdict

A tense, slow, SWAT 4-style tactical shooter with great maps and atmosphere, best with friends. Solo players and anyone bothered by console-era censorship, AI art or bad AI should think twice.

Great for

Co-op groups who like slow, methodical SWAT room-clearing and high tension

Main risk

Cheating-feeling enemy AI and useless teammate bots make solo play frustrating

What players love

Great with friends in co-op

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews

“Co-op is very good with friends and graphics are very good.”
Steam review · 30.8 h played ↗

“All great, an excellent game, especially if you play with friends.”
Steam review · translated from Russian · 3.9 h played ↗

“Supper fun to play with friends and its fun”
Steam review · 5.2 h played ↗

Atmosphere, level design and sound

Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews

“The maps are extremely detailed and it often feels like every location has a story behind it.”
Steam review · 111 h played ↗

“it is the scariest game i have played that isn't meant to be a horror game”
Steam review · 51.5 h played ↗

Tense, immersive tactical gameplay

Mentioned in ~1 in 10 positive reviews

“Ready or Not is at its best when it makes you slow down. Every doorway feels dangerous, every shot needs to be justified”
Steam review · 85.1 h played ↗

“really makes you feel like you're commanding a swat team. clearing room by room”
Steam review · 3.4 h played ↗

Spiritual successor to SWAT 4

Mentioned in ~1 in 15 positive reviews

“Ready or Not is the closest thing we've gotten to a true successor to SWAT 4.”
Steam review · 352.2 h played ↗

“Despite the game's criticisms, it's still a good modernized version of SWAT 4.”
Steam review · 46.8 h played ↗

Replayability, S-rank and varied missions

Mentioned in ~1 in 17 positive reviews

“this game counts a lot on replayability.”
Steam review · 111.9 h played ↗

“the missions are intence and every room feels tense, and i keep wanting to replay them to do better”
Steam review · 59.5 h played ↗

Runs well on low-end PCs, Deck and Linux

Mentioned in ~1 in 25 positive reviews

“on lower graphics setting I can easliy run this game and have found it to be very fun.”
Steam review · 43.4 h played ↗

“also runs well on linux.”
Steam review · 177 h played ↗

What players complain about

Bad teammate AI

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews

“my SWAT team acts like weak, careless suspects who can't protect themselves or each other, while the suspects fight like special forces.”
Steam review · 81.7 h played ↗

“Friendly AI is straight trash, from blocking your doorways to just standing in front of enemies letting them shoot and kill them without firing a single shot.”
Steam review · 7.1 h played ↗

Console-era censorship and downgrades

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews

“The game gutted it's quality to adapt to a console's capabilities.”
Steam review · 81.7 h played ↗

“Spineless devs, downgrading graphics and introducing censorship so they can release an 18+ game on consoles.”
Steam review · 36.6 h played ↗

“Now only the name is left of the game.”
Steam review · translated from Russian · 41.4 h played ↗

Enemy AI aimbot and wallhacks

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews

“Suspects often feel like you're playing against aimbotters rather than human enemies.”
Steam review · 129.7 h played ↗

“Enemies can instantly see you and shoot you through walls, doors, and props on late game maps”
Steam review · 42 h played ↗

“AI is literally just aimbot with wallhacks”
Steam review · 13.8 h played ↗

Many bugs left unfixed

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews

“These people made a buggy mess, that they haven't fixed SINCE THE EARLY ACCESS.”
Steam review · 209.8 h played ↗

“Very. Many. Bugs. Just a ton of them.”
Steam review · translated from Russian · 23.5 h played ↗

Crashes, FPS drops and connection issues

Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews

“game tends to crash alot and can bug out for days would not reccomend”
Steam review · 45.6 h played ↗

“Game poorly optimized, constant fps drops”
Steam review · 55.2 h played ↗

Undisclosed AI-generated art

Mentioned in ~1 in 10 negative reviews

“Ai art kept in game for awhile now nice 'placeholders' would love to see the ai disclosure already”
Steam review · 8.9 h played ↗

“the amount of ai slop art in this game is really lazy and disappointing”
Steam review · 84.2 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Verified

Minimum

OSWindows 10, Windows 11

ProcessorIntel Core i5-4430 / AMD FX-6300

Memory8 GB RAM

GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2GB / AMD Radeon R7 370 2GB

Storage60 GB available space

Recommended

OS64-bit Windows 10, 64-bit Windows 11

ProcessorAMD Ryzen 5-1600 / Intel Core i5-7600K

Memory8 GB RAM

GraphicsNvidia GTX 1060 6GB or better

Storage60 GB available space

OSWindows 10, Windows 11

ProcessorIntel Core i5-4430 / AMD FX-6300

Memory8 GB RAM

GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2GB / AMD Radeon R7 370 2GB

Storage60 GB available space

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