OUTRIDERS

The developers greed means that what would’ve been an awesome singleplayer game with multiplayer components became a game you cant play for long without getting disconnected several times. ALWAYS ONLINE SINGLE PLAYER CAMPAIGNS? Shame on you!!!

A great storyline, good voice acting, good looking graphics, lots of enemy types and plenty of variety when it comes to locations. And then there's endgame content. Expeditions (like dungeons) give you materials (to upgrade gear) and legendary weapon. Though it can be a bit grindy but I still like it. Some bugs, like map quest markers not working sometimes or showing the wrong direction, but overall it's pretty bug-free. Gameplay : 9/10 Graphics : 9/10 Performance/ optimization : 10/10 [h1] The biggest con of this game [/h1] is that it's an online service, even in solo play - which really sux if Server goes down it will be gone forever even if you pay for the whole game .

Not as bad as the mainstream make it. Silly, fun and good combat. Builds are also wide enough to make different playstyles viable. If you don't take gaming too seriously, this might be for you. Sometimes it is ok to play through a campaign and leave the game to be. Not every game needs endless grinding etc. 8/10

Outriders... where do I even begin. This game saved me. Not in the subtle, “oh that was a fun distraction on a rainy afternoon” kind of way. No. I mean spiritually. Cosmically. I was one mildly inconvenient Tuesday away from dramatically staring out a window while it rained for no reason. And then I booted up Outriders, developed by People Can Fly and published by Square Enix, and suddenly I had purpose. I had loot. I had shoulder-mounted apocalyptic drip. Let’s talk about the premise. Humanity leaves Earth because we absolutely fumbled the planet (classic us) and heads to Enoch, a new world that immediately decides it hates us. There’s a mysterious energy storm called the Anomaly that mutates everything it touches, including you. And instead of becoming a tasteful superhero with manageable powers, you become what the game calls an “Altered,” which is essentially a walking OSHA violation with delusions of grandeur. It’s beautiful. I chose the Trickster class, because if I’m going to survive a hostile alien planet, I’d like to do it with teleportation, time manipulation, and a shotgun that sounds like it’s filing for divorce. The power fantasy here is not subtle. You don’t gently outmaneuver enemies. You disintegrate them. You turn them into loot piñatas. You create explosions so aggressive they feel like they should require paperwork. And can we talk about the combat? It’s like someone took cover shooting, decided that was too polite, and replaced it with “aggressively advance while setting everything on fire.” The healing mechanic actively encourages you to charge forward like a caffeinated raccoon with a vendetta. Low on health? Simply eliminate several enemies in rapid succession while dramatically teleporting behind them. Problem solved. Therapy achieved. The gunplay? Crunchy. Impactful. The kind of crunchy that makes you lean forward in your chair as if posture alone increases damage output. Every weapon feels like it has personality. Some whisper. Some bark. Some scream like they’ve seen the void and decided to become it. And the mod system? Oh, the mod system. You’re not just equipping gear—you’re engineering chaos. Bullets that chain lightning. Shots that freeze enemies mid-sentence. A rifle that politely detonates everything within a ten-mile radius because you looked at it wrong. The loot. Oh, the loot. I have never been so emotionally invested in color-coded rectangles in my life. I became a spreadsheet in human form. My brain stopped thinking in words and started thinking in DPS calculations. My dreams were purple. Sometimes orange. Legendary drops weren’t items—they were spiritual events. If enlightenment exists, it probably has a drop rate. And yet, beneath the explosions and the suspicious amount of screaming, there’s a surprisingly earnest story. Humanity struggling to survive. Factions collapsing under pressure. People making messy, complicated choices. It’s bleak in that “we tried our best and still messed up” way. But that makes your character’s raw, sarcastic resilience even better. The dialogue has this wonderfully dry, almost exhausted tone, like everyone on Enoch collectively agreed they’re too tired to be shocked anymore. “Oh, the sky is bleeding again? Yeah. That tracks.” Now, is it perfect? No. There are moments where the difficulty spikes like it’s personally offended by your build. There were times I stared at my screen and whispered, “You cannot be serious,” as a captain with suspiciously infinite abilities turned me into a decorative crater. But instead of quitting, I optimized. I adapted. I became a menace. The world design deserves a standing ovation. Each area feels distinct, scarred by the Anomaly in ways that are both visually stunning and mildly concerning. Forests crackling with alien energy. War-torn trenches that look like they were designed by someone who majored in Dramatic Lighting. Snowfields that say, “Yes, this is beautiful. Also you will die here.” And the expeditions—the endgame gauntlets—are where the game fully commits to chaos. Time-based, enemy-dense, ability-spamming spectacles of destruction. It’s not just about survival. It’s about style. It’s about efficiency. It’s about looking cool while a small army collapses around you in synchronized explosions. Multiplayer? Surprisingly seamless when it works, and when it works, it works. There is something deeply bonding about three people collectively screaming as a boss enters Phase Three (which it absolutely did not need). Coordinated ability combos turn the battlefield into a light show that probably violates several interstellar conventions. It’s friendship, but louder. What truly makes Outriders special, though, is its commitment. It doesn’t apologize for being loud, messy, and unapologetically over-the-top. It doesn’t try to be prestige television in video game form. It wants you to feel powerful. Ridiculously powerful. “I survived a cosmic storm and now I’m emotionally attached to my shotgun” powerful. At some point, I realized I wasn’t just playing. I was invested. I cared about my build like it was a small business. I defended my class choices like they were political stances. I learned boss patterns the way historians learn timelines. Enoch stopped being a hostile planet and started being… home. A very violent, lightning-infused home where the furniture occasionally explodes. So yes. Outriders saved me. It gave me explosions when I needed catharsis. It gave me loot when I needed dopamine. It gave me a world that was brutally unfair but still worth fighting through. If you want subtlety, maybe look elsewhere. If you want quiet introspection, perhaps consider a farming simulator. But if you want to teleport behind a warlord, freeze him in time, detonate his entire support squad, and then sift through the aftermath for boots with 3% better cooldown reduction while feeling like a mythological disaster? Outriders is waiting.

Disconnected twice from game server in first 45 minutes. Game kicks you out even though this is single player campaign when that happens. Keep you always online requirement out of single player experiences.

Though recommended requirements state: Intel i7-7700K / AMD Ryzen 5 2600X for a 1080P / 60 FPS experience I'm playing this on a 2009 I7-920 @1080P / 60 FPS. Admittedly I'm using Lossless Scaling which most think of as a GPU utility though can significantly reduce CPU load as well. I acquired the game through a Humble Bundle 1st tier @$10 and given the four really good games in that tier, my mathematical enriched brain calculates my Outriders purchase to a whooping $2.50. My oh my, how gaming on a budget has become mainstream for those not wanting to rain $60, $70 and $80 on publishers or hundreds, thousands on greedy hardware companies that care little for the little guy / gal when they get in bed with monstrous A.I. conglomerates. I'm of course speaking of ridiculous RAM prices. Are you Not Entertained? Isn't that why you are here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gmKQ8oqoF4 As for the game. The crowd here has significantly dwindled and the curtains may soon close unable to be resurrected by the removal of an always online requirement. The game is good. Outriders serves it's solo player well. I love the numerous skills and the cover and shoot combat is serviceable though there is a class where you will not be using cover much and it rocks. There are something like 16 difficulty tiers... amazing. I've not seen that many tiers since Hilary lost to Donald (get it tiers / tears lol). Personally I think the story and the lore has been exceptional but of course my opinion is subjective. Who knows how long the servers will be up. Hilary could wipe them any day </snicker>. Seriously though not many playing and unless you have a friend you're most likely to go solo. Be an Outrider! You'll be very enamored with yourself. Be entertained!

The fact that the second game got scrapped should be a punishable crime. :(

Played the base game to the very end. got all legendary sets for my technomancer, tested every single build i could think of, replayed the story with a friend. got to tier 15 apocalypse and finished the final boss. Most of the stuff in the base game just straight up doesn't work and is completely jank and broken. The story falls off half way through the game where the budget seemed to drop of the face of the world. Wouldn't recommend wasting time or money on this game unless it is very cheap.

This is one of, if not the most, fun shooter I have ever played. The amount of negative reviews on it just shocks me. I can only assume that it must have been released in a bad state and got review bombed, which is a shame because I would buy anything released for this. Have played through the main story and end game 12 times between Steam version and xbox pc version, about to start new runs on xbox console version. Story is good with interesting characters but the build and itemization is where this game really shines.