- Publisher: Remedy Entertainment
- Release Date: Jun 17, 2025
- Also On: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X
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Sep 13, 2025FBC Firebreak has a healthy perspective on multiplayer. It's casual for your average hardcore extraction or looter shooter, yet far from a party game or something in the likes. It wants to be fun. It sorta is. It's just not fun, unique or deep enough to steal hours off the bigger co-op games out there. I still enjoyed my time with it, though, and its many weird quirky aesthetics and mission objectives. No matter how it lands, it's still good in its own right.
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Jun 20, 2025Watching each other's backs as we leapfrog toward the stage's exit, music blasting, I get what Remedy is going for -- these dark missions aren't meant to be played alone. Crank up the difficulty, grab a couple buddies and ride out the waves together.
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Jun 17, 2025Firebreak has a good start point and some decently fun combat improvements at the end point, but the route between the two is shallow and poorly realized.
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Jun 18, 2025Right now, it’s lacking, and not just in musical numbers.
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Jun 20, 2025I genuinely don’t know who Firebreak is for. Longtime fans of Control won’t find collectibles, environmental storytelling, or anything to even read. And those looking for meaningful multiplayer shooters have plenty of options already. This is a strange dim light for a studio that usually produces brilliance.
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Jun 17, 2025Although I'm not yet ready to deliver a definitive verdict on FBC: Firebreak, my current impressions are definitely positive. Despite being Remedy's first foray into multiplayer, the Finnish studio crafted a fun co-op shooter with a lot of personality, thriving on the unpredictability offered by the Remedy Connected Universe that makes it easy to look past some of its issues, such as the unsatisfying gunplay. With a promising content roadmap, FBC: Firebreak has a bright future ahead, and it'll be interesting to see whether it will manage to stay as fresh as it does in the first dozen of hours or so. [Review in Progress]
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Jun 18, 2025FBC: Firebreak is a lot of fun, at least when you've got a friend of two to play with. It's the most different a Remedy game has dared to be, taking a first-person perspective and introducing co-op play. There's a large number of fun gameplay systems that interact in enjoyable or unexpected ways, and if you're okay with a little chaos, it's a fun ride that seems perfectly suited for hopping in and playing a bit without spending thousands of hours in-game. [Review in Progress]