I was afraid that one of the last great bastions of the immersive sim genre would be whittled down to the indignity of pumping out another uninspired open world co-op shooter for the pile. Redfall is a game that I never wanted to play even from the moment it was revealed. That was the final straw for our experience with a game that’s clearly not ready for prime time.

One of our teammates was booted out of the game a total of three times in just under an hour, and we all suffered game-ending crashes bringing us back to the lobby. During our time with the title, crashes were common. Now, Redfall has only been out for around 24 hours or so, but the vampire shooter’s about as stable as cookies dipped in coffee. Redfall isn’t just one of the worst games of the year, it's one of the most heartbreaking and disappointing titles of all time For a full-price AAA game from one of the most respected developers in the industry, the performance we suffered when playing was absolutely inexcusable. More frequent were the times that my teammates would glide through the map and teleport to different objectives.įor the record, we were all playing with high-speed wired ethernet connections, and yet Redfall was running like we were trying to get internet access from the spotty Wi-Fi connection of a late night McDonald’s. It wasn’t uncommon to see the human cultist characters dropping through the terrain or disappearing during firefights. For transparency, three of us on the TRG team played on PC, with machines all far exceeding the minimum system requirements, and all of us had a number of glaring technical issues that spoiled the fun. If you play on Xbox Series X, you’ll notice the game is stuck at an unsteady 30fps and lacks a performance mode which at this point should be an industry standard. If you can somehow look past the bland and boring gameplay loop then the performance really is the final nail in Redfall’s coffin.

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