Scorn Tested My Patience BIG TIME... | Review

Scorn is a game that I truly want to love. Its visual and audio design, sense of self, and gory nature give it a unique identity. However, as I pressed deeper into its world, I was pressed by bugs, glitches, a poor save system, and unnecessary combat. Over time, it lost that unique feel, but I still couldn't sit here and tell you to avoid Scorn. That ability to set itself apart is hard to find in today's industry. After some patches, definitely give this a look.

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[carlosfred]

This feels like one of those games that you absolutely love or hate.

[ValiareTheForsaken]

Scorn feels like more of an art piece than a game.

[brmawe]

Glad people are giving there honest review on horror games like these.

[TheBaronVSP]

There are times where I feel the art style actually works against the gameplay, because it gets to a point where everything looks so similar that I just get lost (and not in a good way). It's like if someone took The Library level from Halo CE and made a whole game out of it.

[skramerwrites]

I’m glad for the developers that this is on Game Pass. There will be a niche of players who enjoy this type of game.

[authorityfigure]

Becoming one of my fav YouTubers with the consistent content man. Keep it up.

[HereticRain]

I really wanted this to be good as it seemed to combine so many things that I love. It was unfortunately very unsatisfying and whenever it did pull me in it swiftly pissed me off with terrible combat encounters 😂

I honestly feel like Scorn may have been many different gameplay styles throughout development and that this version we have been given was thrown together within about a year. For most of the development time I feel like they must have just had a very beautiful 3D art exhibit… a shame.

Though there do seem to many Scorn…apologists…across the internet I think the developers need the criticism if we would like to see this done better. Beautiful art - mediocre to bad gameplay

[kayve_]

I could understand not having manual saves for a horror game but in a tough survival puzzle game like scorn, manual saves are a MUST

[EinsamPibroch]

"Not Ready?"
How was Scorn not ready?
It had 8 flippin' years to be ready and bug-free.
We all waited for it, and it was stillborn.

[battlept]

I had it pre-installed on PC Game Pass - and it randomly dropped a 28 GB update on me last night so i'm hoping that includes a lot of bug fixes.

[marconihimself]

I think it is kind of sad that we already reached a level of maturity in game design but only now we are getting incredibly looking photoreastical games, because no matter how pretty a game like scorn looks, we kind of know the conventional gameplay loops it will apply.

Thats one reason why I still look fondly to the 6th generation of consoles. I feel like that was the point in history in which we were starting to realize the potentials of game design going forward. It was a very earnest point in game design history. Now I can only feel a bit jaded when I play something like Scorn.

[dhruvo]

Just as i suspected. These game will have a strong cult following. Most ppl need that 30 seconds “euphoria”. But scorn breaks this 30 sec loop and does its own thing. Thats why ur average joe will find it boring. In reality its one of the best lovecraftian horror game i have ever played.

[joshuacalkins]

Great to be warned about the save system. I have no interest in games with terrible save systems, and this certainly qualifies, at least as long as the glitching persists. Hope to play it some day, and definitely will if they add more saves/manual saves.

[xRickeyTiex]

I completed the game with little to no bugs or game breaking issues, but even so there were parts in the game were i felt stuck and would have liked to go back to a reasonable checkpoint. The lack of which forced me to spend an unnecessarily long time on certain encounters where a checkpoint would have put me in a better spot to deal with said encounter.

[seanm.]

How many times do we have to see companies release a game that they have to “clean up” to be good enough to even play?

[ronthorn]

Welcome to the future of gamepass ladies and gentlemen

[PostQuamPaul]

What were you playing on? Played great on Series X for me. 🤷‍♂️ appreciate the content!

[monlithic]

Curious, because I've seen some other reviewers and they had next to no bugs or glitches whatsoever.

[PunkRocker]

The combat is what drove me away from completing the game this weekend.
If it was an atmospheric horror puzzle solving walking sim, I think the game would have been great.

[shanewright]

This game is hard to enjoy. When I play a game I want to be entertained not frustrated.