Ready or Not

This review is purely based on my experience of this game. I tried my best not to let other games affect my view of this game too much and rate everything on an for this game appropriate scale! This review does contain spoilers, some of which may not be marked as such!

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☐ You forget what reality is

☐ Beautiful

☑ Good

☐ Decent

☐ Bad

☐ Don‘t look too long at it

☐ MS-DOS

Ready or Not certainly does a good job at looking realistic, though especially character models could have used a little more love at times.

☐ Very good

☑ Good

☐ It's just gameplay

☐ Mehh

☐ Watch paint dry instead

☐ Just don't

There isn't really much more I could expect from Ready or Not gameplay wise.
You got multiple ways to go in and take control of the situation,

though it does sometimes feel like you're forced to use specific equipment in order to get S rank.

Especially when it comes to your primary weapon, because lethal weapons can quickly ruin your score.

☐ Eargasm

☑ Very good

☐ Good

☐ Not too bad

☐ Bad

☐ I'm now deaf

Everything in this game sounds pretty realistic.

It's definitely at a level were you can use the sounds of suspects to your tactical advantage.

☐ Kids

☐ Teens

☑ Adults

☐ Grandma

It's a Tactical Shooter in which you infiltrate buildings and their surroundings in order to take out terrorists and free hostages and other civilians while trying to stay alive and follow your ROE. 18+

☐ Check if you can run paint

☐ Potato

☑ Decent

☐ Fast

☐ Rich boi

☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

You definitely wont need anything too fancy to play Ready or Not.

I personally can't say much about if the mininum/recommended specs are accurate since I myself am playing on a high-end setup,

but a friend of mine with a setup slightly above recommended didn't encounter any real performance issues while playing the game.

Minimum:

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
• OS: Windows 10, Windows 11
  
• Processor: Intel Core i5-4430 / AMD FX-6300
  
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2GB / AMD Radeon R7 370 2GB
• DirectX: Version 11
• Storage: 60 GB available space

Recommended:

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
• OS: 64-bit Windows 10, 64-bit Windows 11
  
• Processor: AMD Ryzen 5-1600 / Intel Core i5-7600K
  
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB or better
• DirectX: Version 11
• Storage: 60 GB available space

☐ Floppy Disk

☐ Old Fashioned

☐ Workable

☑ Big

☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive

☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it

☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

At the time of writing this review the game was a whopping 56.61GB on Steam!

☐ Just press 'W'

☐ Easy

☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master

☐ Significant brain usage

☐ Difficult

☐ Dark Souls

I wouldn't necessarily say the game is hard, but it isn't really easy either.

Especially at the beginning, you might have a harder time to get into the game,

but as soon as you got the basics (stay calm, move slowly, check your six, you name it) down it's gonna be an easy ride.

☐ Nothing to grind

☑ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks

☐ Isn't necessary to progress

☐ Average grind level

☐ Too much grind

☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

Getting S rank on every level might feel a little grindy but other than that, its certainly grind free.

☐ No Story

☑ Some lore

☐ Average

☐ Good

☐ Lovely

☐ It'll replace your life

While there certainly is some lore for each level, it doesn't really seem to have all too much value and most people probably don't even know you can listen to it.

☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee

☐ Short

☐ Average

☐ Long

☑ To infinity and beyond

You can certainly spend a lot of time in Ready or Not, especially thanks to the replayability coming from it's coop nature.

A single mission can take anything from 10 minutes to sometimes even up to an hour,

because you once again are looking for the last civilian hiding in a corner in multiplayer,

where you can't just command your AI teammates to "search and secure" the whole map.

My 100% playthrough took me about 30 hours while, according to How Long To Beat the "main story" is about 15 hours and a completionist run could be anywhere between 40 to 70 hours.

☐ It's free!

☐ Worth the price

☑ If it's on sale

☐ If u have some spare money left

☐ Not recommended

☐ You could also just burn your money

The normal price on Steam is a whopping 49.99€. Way too expensive if you ask me.

Better wait for it to drop to ~26.99€ (currently the lowest EURO price on record) on a sale and buy it twice, for you and a friend to enjoy it together!

☐ Never heard of

☐ Minor bugs

☑ Can get annoying

☐ ARK: Survival Evolved

☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

Most of the time you won't really have all too many problems with bugs. But when the time comes they're usually super annoying..

How many times did I have to repeat Neon Tomb because those freaking bomb west guys didn't want to surrender no matter what.

Taser, CS Gas, pepper/bean bags, caving their faces in.

Either the AI and I ran out of ammo, or they just stopped caring about us and blew themselves up anyways after a minute or two..

Also had moments when I played with a friend from far away (300-400ms ping) and I couldn't see if a door was trapped or not because neither the wires nor the grenades showed up for me.

The game does have a few bugs, but most of the time you will be able to play in peace.

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The game gets a good 8/10 from me.
The game is certainly not perfect especially when it comes to the rating/rank system or the fact that you cannot earn achievements nor have AI teammates in multiplayer.

Despite the issues it's been a lot of fun playing Ready or Not, especially with friends.