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Wanted: Dead (2023)

Soleil

PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 4 · PlayStation 5 · Xbox One · Xbox Series X|S

3.26 from 34 ratings

319 members have it in their collection · 1 playing now · 200 backlogged · 76 wish listed

How long? Main story 22h (from 1 logged playthrough)

Wanted: Dead promises "spectacular melee combat and exciting gunplay," and is set in a "dark and dangerous version of science-fiction Hong Kong where you will need sharpened skills to survive."
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Details

Developers
Soleil
Publishers
110 Industries
Genres
Adventure, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Shooter
Themes
Action, Science fiction
Event
IGN Expo 2022
Steam
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Release dates

  • Feb 14, 2023 (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S

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Rating distribution

5 stars
5
4 stars
13
3 stars
6
2 stars
6
1 star
4
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Community All Reviews Statuses

killerstar

Status killerstar Feb 17, 2024

The game is a catalogue of weird bad design decision that are patently evident and easy to solve. If your inventory is full and you stand on top of a healing item you get the text "stimpacks full" if you then use a stimpack, you'd guess that the text should immediately change to "pick up stimpack". It doesn't. You need …

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The game is a catalogue of weird bad design decision that are patently evident and easy to solve. If your inventory is full and you stand on top of a healing item you get the text "stimpacks full" if you then use a stimpack, you'd guess that the text should immediately change to "pick up stimpack". It doesn't. You need to leave and go back to pick it up.

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killerstar

Status killerstar Feb 17, 2024

Yeah, they definitely fucked up with character colours. Your teammates are almost the same colour as the enemies, and since enemies are constantly flanking you from behind, you never know if the brown shadow behind you is friend or foe. It's baffling that such as basic and easily solvable design flaw wasn't flagged and fixed during the first alpha build.

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killerstar

Status killerstar Feb 17, 2024

I changed to K&M to see if that improved my shooting, and obviously it did. I just cannot aim with a controller.

But the keyboard controls in this game are nuts. Sprint with Ctrl, open the menu with tab (escape does nothing), go back in menus with backspace, interact with left alt, change weapons with 2. And as far as …

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I changed to K&M to see if that improved my shooting, and obviously it did. I just cannot aim with a controller.

But the keyboard controls in this game are nuts. Sprint with Ctrl, open the menu with tab (escape does nothing), go back in menus with backspace, interact with left alt, change weapons with 2. And as far as I can tell, I can't remap anything to the mouse wheel (like changing weapons) or to the other mouse buttons.

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killerstar

Status killerstar Feb 16, 2024

I'm trying to like the game but I just don't think that this works. The mix of shooting and melee doesn't work if the camera is too close to see enemies hitting you from behind, and if grenades apear out of nowhere, and if enemies are dark brown over black background in a dark room, and if your team-mates are …

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I'm trying to like the game but I just don't think that this works. The mix of shooting and melee doesn't work if the camera is too close to see enemies hitting you from behind, and if grenades apear out of nowhere, and if enemies are dark brown over black background in a dark room, and if your team-mates are the same colour. And certainly doesn't work if the game doesn't have the decency of having a reasonable difficulty curve and using checkpoints smartly to avoid player frustration.

It's a shame, because there's something in the presentation and vibe that I liked from the start.

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killerstar

Status killerstar Feb 16, 2024

Can we agree that if you're going to throw a new, harder enemy with new movesets that the player needs to learn and to which they will probably die a few times... you do it right after the checkpoint and not after a prolonged battle with randos?

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PyramidHeadcrab

Status PyramidHeadcrab Sep 10, 2023

I'm not gonna say this game is BAD, because I feel like there's probably some good in here... But I keep dying repeatedly on the very first area of the game, and I have zero patience for a game that has such unorthodox controls and mechanics and expects you to master them right out of the gate.

Life's too short …

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I'm not gonna say this game is BAD, because I feel like there's probably some good in here... But I keep dying repeatedly on the very first area of the game, and I have zero patience for a game that has such unorthodox controls and mechanics and expects you to master them right out of the gate.

Life's too short for bullshit-hard games honestly.

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