Valorant

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4.8

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 3892 Ratings

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  1. z1439527767
    Mar 18, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. lots of wallhacking aimbot, not worth to play dumb game. hack is free online and the anti- cheat system is weak as well.… Expand
  2. maxipardo_
    Jul 9, 2021
    0
    Gameplay is boring and it's obviously made to work like trash. Like a troll game.
  3. slimeboy37
    Jul 15, 2021
    0
    I'm not leaving this bad review because of bad mechanics, I'm leaving it because Riot doesn't know how to make a functioning game. I recently just got back into Valorant after taking a break for a few months, I come back only to have multiple crashes because my "GPU ran out of space". I spent $1000+ on this gaming laptop I'm writing this review on. After closing as much stuff as I can onI'm not leaving this bad review because of bad mechanics, I'm leaving it because Riot doesn't know how to make a functioning game. I recently just got back into Valorant after taking a break for a few months, I come back only to have multiple crashes because my "GPU ran out of space". I spent $1000+ on this gaming laptop I'm writing this review on. After closing as much stuff as I can on my laptop. I finally get it to work. Then experience toxicity and players not choosing characters. I don't care about that, it's just mildy annoying. But then I started playing games, and I was disconnected from 1 round because FACEIT was trying to hook up to Valorant for competitive. DESPITE me never joining the Valorant community on FACEIT. So I uninstalled FACEIT and the rest of the game was fine. Until I got to the end of the round. It gave me a penalty and didn't give me any xp, because I was "AFK for too long" I was gone for 1 round and played the other 12. How is that too long? So this ticked me off quite a bit. Then I started up another match. I was doing good, I was top scoring on my team. Then the sides switched, and the game froze. I was mad, and audio was still playing. Then my screen turns black. I try and alt tab out, and nothing happens. And every time I moved my mouse, it just made beeping noises. It did this for at least 5 minutes. so for that 5 minutes, my laptop might as well just have been a $1000 large paperweight. If you want to make a good game, don't make it to where it breaks EVERY FUNCTION ON YOUR PLAYER'S COMPUTERS… Expand
  4. crowns
    Jul 19, 2021
    0
    worthless game a csgo ripoff that is full of hackers yet another shooter game that just takes your money and laughs
  5. jasiek13823
    Jan 9, 2022
    1
    this game is unbalanced **** Don't play if u want to stay mentally healthy.
  6. jxxoe
    Feb 13, 2022
    0
    this game is complete **** they match me up with radiants and its so annoying my career is all red because of all the smurfs and toxic people making me mad
  7. Hkl
    Mar 5, 2022
    1
    F**ck Neon.................................................................
  8. Marty1104
    Jun 21, 2022
    0
    Valorant at its current State causes just Anger and Frustration in the Ranked Mode. Almost None Measures against Afk People, Smurfs and Toxic Players. Many People Hardstuck because of an idiotic hidden MMR System that lets you play against higher People but never lets you reach their Rank. Because i love the Game i will rate it like this. The only interesting Mode is unplayable at thisValorant at its current State causes just Anger and Frustration in the Ranked Mode. Almost None Measures against Afk People, Smurfs and Toxic Players. Many People Hardstuck because of an idiotic hidden MMR System that lets you play against higher People but never lets you reach their Rank. Because i love the Game i will rate it like this. The only interesting Mode is unplayable at this Point.

    Edit: I will keep the Review up to Date since the MM changes.

    You dont have to create Ranks if the MM doesnt work.    … Expand
  9. Poopoofartpee
    Jul 31, 2022
    0
    This game is feels really unfair.Like you are just walking and a guy comes in and throws something and headshots you.Thats what happened all times when i was playing.
  10. thelongestsword
    May 4, 2022
    0
    **** game i am high elo (bronze) and all people do is instalock the characters that can move the fastest and use guns like judge judy and bucky from captain america. i am the only one that uses good gun in teh game (stinger and shorty). i play on the mumbai server and everyone is toxic they tell me 'soava why dont u just go die' why they are so mean? its video game? all val players brains**** game i am high elo (bronze) and all people do is instalock the characters that can move the fastest and use guns like judge judy and bucky from captain america. i am the only one that uses good gun in teh game (stinger and shorty). i play on the mumbai server and everyone is toxic they tell me 'soava why dont u just go die' why they are so mean? its video game? all val players brains eventually start to deteroirate and there nothing the rest of us noobs can drtyf… Expand
  11. AVX
    Jul 19, 2022
    0
    **** game. Everygame you play is either completely enemy sided where you lose 13-4 or a game which isn't even remotely challenging where you win 13-4. The game is more frustrating than fun. Smurfs everywhere, and I haven't even touched ranked. Gunplay is okay except most guns dont have good first shot accuracy so that ruins the gunplay for me. All in all 0 out of 10 you should go play csgo instead
  12. Valorantsmurfs
    Aug 23, 2022
    0
    there are a lot of those in the game who for some reason make new accounts when they themselves have level 100+
  13. SinfulWyrm
    Sep 18, 2022
    1
    Imagine you are new player who has yet to learn the basics of the game. You queue up for an unranked match (since it's the only gamemode other than ranked anyone really plays). You queue up against players that are ranked Platinum, Diamond or higher almost every game and get absolutely annihilated.
    This is the experience of Valorant. Conceptually exciting and fun but execution wise:    Imagine you are new player who has yet to learn the basics of the game. You queue up for an unranked match (since it's the only gamemode other than ranked anyone really plays). You queue up against players that are ranked Platinum, Diamond or higher almost every game and get absolutely annihilated.
    This is the experience of Valorant. Conceptually exciting and fun but execution wise: horrendous and infuriating.
    Since release there has not been any matchmaking balancing system implemented. It doesn't seem as though there are any plans of implementing such a feature in the near or far future.    … Expand
  14. Szokas_
    Apr 1, 2023
    4
    bad graphics, ripped off csgo, bad community.
    yes, this gayme is for gaymers
  15. Satisfaction
    Jun 30, 2021
    2
    Pros:
    + Clean artstyle (no character skins, altering the visibility etc)
    + Lack of Pay2Win mechanics + Runs great, even on older hardware Cons: - No option to host dedicated servers/play locally - Abysmal map design (because of the abilities, I guess) - VAL 5 & VAL 43 errors, related to connection - I have never had similar problems with LoL servers - "You don’t kill with    Pros:
    + Clean artstyle (no character skins, altering the visibility etc)
    + Lack of Pay2Win mechanics
    + Runs great, even on older hardware
    Cons:
    - No option to host dedicated servers/play locally
    - Abysmal map design (because of the abilities, I guess)
    - VAL 5 & VAL 43 errors, related to connection - I have never had similar problems with LoL servers
    - "You don’t kill with abilities" was a lie
    - Servers in EU are subpar - even though you use Paris/London/Frankfurt/Warsaw ones you still get teams full of CIS/Turkish players (that play with extreme latency), who refuse to communicate in English
    - Predatory in-game store with rotating section, in which one weapon skin (remodel/retexture of a gun) might cost up to 20€ - you can get an AAA game for that price (not on release, but after 6-12 months, yet still)
    - Battle pass is more unrewarding than fun, because you are forced to race against the time to ensure you will get all rewards (unless you pay for the rest of the levels or use A LOT of your free time to grind it)
    - Severe peeker's advantage, that makes you feel like you are being one tapped by running opponent
    - Gunplay feels like a downgrade when coming from the 9-year old CSGO system, I would even argue that CS 1.6 had better feeling at times (shoulder peeks are extremely overpowered)
    - In-game lobbies full of toxic brats that are undinsguishable from apes, when it comes to their mental state (this is not an overstatement, I ensure you this game might double as a test to discover aspiring sociopaths/psychopaths before they attempt their first wrongdoing)

    I guess Riot is catering to the "eSports" audience, but please consider my suggestion: save your brain cells and find your next online game somewhere else. Having fun was never an option in Valorant.    … Expand
  16. m33o44
    May 30, 2022
    0
    Das Aim System ist so, als würde man mit Würfeln spielen. Das Gameplay ist einfach CS GO für Komapatienten.
  17. ZhekoraZ
    Apr 9, 2021
    4
    Valorant feels like cool way to put CS and Overwatch together and its really good for players who wants it but the game kinda overfilled because all of that amount of skills. Maps are monotonous but special and not boring. I was waiting for an easy-to-aim guns but they are very different from other games, it really needs time to get used to. I would like to play this game more, but with noValorant feels like cool way to put CS and Overwatch together and its really good for players who wants it but the game kinda overfilled because all of that amount of skills. Maps are monotonous but special and not boring. I was waiting for an easy-to-aim guns but they are very different from other games, it really needs time to get used to. I would like to play this game more, but with no reason game decided that after the pc restart (i didn`t change acc or anything) I have to play China region with 160 ping. Maybe i could do something with that, but i was so dissatisfied with all of that downloads/problems with region on my account so i decided to ask Riot Games for a game launcher here. Riot Games, thank you that i didn`t have to have 4 different downloads to download game (that`s the way i tried LoL) but please change your regions policies and make some launcher for your games or at least good friendly interfaces.… Expand
  18. Adriella01
    Aug 30, 2021
    3
    Really bad matchmaking which makes the game not fun at all. I started in beta for a short time and came back 1 year later, still new to the game basically and I never played Csgo or other shooter like this.
    I'm not skilled enough for one tap head shots and I get 3-5 excellent enemies who one tap me in 0.4 sec. So i figured, maybe I need a fresh account. Still had the same problem with    Really bad matchmaking which makes the game not fun at all. I started in beta for a short time and came back 1 year later, still new to the game basically and I never played Csgo or other shooter like this.
    I'm not skilled enough for one tap head shots and I get 3-5 excellent enemies who one tap me in 0.4 sec. So i figured, maybe I need a fresh account. Still had the same problem with lvl. 1. I get matched with people lvl 50+ as a lvl 1, which makes zero sense to me.    … Expand
  19. Chubac
    Jul 19, 2020
    3
    Feels like a weird mix of Team Fortress 2, Overwatch and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. The gameplay is very much feels like the previously mentioned games but sadly that's it. The game brings nothing new to the table and the fact that the graphics looks like a mobile game makes this a bad shooter.
  20. Egitartelka69
    Nov 22, 2020
    3
    point blank in 2008 was better than this. if you have a weak computer and you play exclusively competitive shooters, then this is a good game(maybe) ,but i will never recom this to you,better to play cs go on low settings
  21. striky
    Dec 15, 2020
    3
    Gameplay is serviceable. Guns feel great but are horribly unbalanced. The maps feel claustrophobic. No dev console, no dev tools, no server browser, barely no community aspects overall. Wallbangs are stupidly overpowered. I would talk about hero balance but a large portion of the selection are locked behind hours of grind. Not to mention the anti-cheat that is borderline spyware.
    Don't    Gameplay is serviceable. Guns feel great but are horribly unbalanced. The maps feel claustrophobic. No dev console, no dev tools, no server browser, barely no community aspects overall. Wallbangs are stupidly overpowered. I would talk about hero balance but a large portion of the selection are locked behind hours of grind. Not to mention the anti-cheat that is borderline spyware.
    Don't bother with it, if you like the gunplay go play 1.6    … Expand
  22. Kingzz
    Jan 13, 2021
    0
    one of the worst games ive ever played blatant csgo ripoff that misses all of the charm csgo has dont download also im pretty sure their anticheat is a virus
  23. zielonypantofel
    Jan 26, 2021
    0
    I hate this game so much, it is based on RNG and NPS random spawn, also when i tried to hatch my first egg I got lvl 6 Lamar Davis, but I wanted lvl 61 Roblox Guest, also gameplay has no plot . Game is non sense, half of weapons are not working properly, because when I want to shoot in head i shoot enemies in legs, we can also clearly see that half of characters such as Cypher or BreachI hate this game so much, it is based on RNG and NPS random spawn, also when i tried to hatch my first egg I got lvl 6 Lamar Davis, but I wanted lvl 61 Roblox Guest, also gameplay has no plot . Game is non sense, half of weapons are not working properly, because when I want to shoot in head i shoot enemies in legs, we can also clearly see that half of characters such as Cypher or Breach are based on LOL (Lots of Laugh) which is also a name of mid-alaskan vegetarian who stole my ratvioli . Another problem is that there is no character from Poland, but there is German character working on a nanotechnology and she may try to destroy the world, Omen who is from another dimension, as we know world is flat so there is only 2D dimension, game is 2/10 , you should also put it on Androit cuz i want to play while in park or somewhere else. I hope you take me seriusly, i want to play a good game not just a piece of lasagna.… Expand
  24. Somethingdkdkd
    Jan 29, 2021
    0
    Has the worst UI. The game doesn't care about throwers or quiters because it's a free game. These players will join the game and will do everything to ruin it. The UI is poorly made, will crash more often than not.
  25. WoodyBoy
    Jan 29, 2021
    0
    Valorant is legitimately one of the worst games I have ever played in my entire life. The staff team completely ignores all feedback on the game and works on it when they feel like it. Call of duty has plenty of good maps and Valorant only has 5, and they’re all extremely poorly designed. Staff team refuses to acknowledge this. The damage is inaccurate, you can shoot somebody 6 times andValorant is legitimately one of the worst games I have ever played in my entire life. The staff team completely ignores all feedback on the game and works on it when they feel like it. Call of duty has plenty of good maps and Valorant only has 5, and they’re all extremely poorly designed. Staff team refuses to acknowledge this. The damage is inaccurate, you can shoot somebody 6 times and not kill them, however on the damage chart on the buy menu, the damage is displayed and it’s completely inaccurate. This is not an exaggeration — one time I’ve shot somebody over a dozen times and they haven’t died. (They healed, but it should NOT take over a dozen shots to not even kill someone.)

    Valorant is one of the, if not the most LUCK based FPS games I’ve ever played. There is said to be a set damage on the buy menu, but the damage appears to be completely randomized. You can shoot someone in the head and do a little over 1/5 of their health. They do things like raise the amount of money it takes to buy certain guns for absolutely no reason at all. The game is completely unbalanced and absurd and any player can see why as soon as they touch it because not a round or two goes by where something crazy happens. The ranked system is the worst that I’ve ever seen. You can get 40 kills and not die a single time and still get astronomically decreased if you end up losing, even if you’re match mvp. I’ve seen players that were in diamond end up in iron in two weeks. The matchmaking is horrible and not skill based at all. Do NOT play ranked if you don’t have your own teammates. The client is terrible, sometimes it kicks you out mid match and penalizes you from playing, or decreases you. There is often way more downtime than promised with updates. The developers seem to be more focused on putting out skins to be purchased with real money than fixing the game.

    The skins are expensive, but not as expensive as some other games. However, they do not provide any type of benefit, and people can just take the skins from you if you die. The battle pass is decent, however.

    I can go on and on about the terrible qualities of the game, but at the end of the day all I can say is stay away from it at all cost.    … Expand
  26. odinskee
    Jan 31, 2021
    0
    This game is not new player friendly at all. There isn't really a game type for you to learn anything about how to use skills, not even in practice mode, that just mostly gets you to practice shooting. Nothing is explained about skills, there's a short blurb on each one but nothing else about how to be efficient with them or how they truly work in actual gameplay. The only way to actuallyThis game is not new player friendly at all. There isn't really a game type for you to learn anything about how to use skills, not even in practice mode, that just mostly gets you to practice shooting. Nothing is explained about skills, there's a short blurb on each one but nothing else about how to be efficient with them or how they truly work in actual gameplay. The only way to actually learn the game is to watch hours of youtube videos of others playing it, which is a massive commitment for a game that showcases a lack of true thought behind their game.
    I had high hopes for this game, I love the artwork and the aesthetics, but the actual core of the game is terrible. I don't like hyper-realistic games so I never got into CSGO but always liked the concept. Unfortunate that this didn't live up to my expectations at all.
    Considering they didn't really need to think of a type of game (given this is literally just cartoon CSGO, which I don't shame or anything), you would think more work would go into the coaching/training aspect of practice modes and some actual explanations behind skills- ie. A showcase clip of when/how the skill would be used.
    Riot did a great job of this in LOL which is why I'm so disappointed it fell through so hard on this game. Truly a shame.    … Expand
  27. mr_clean
    Feb 2, 2021
    0
    Valorant is a fun fps game, but competitive gameplay is often ruined by cheaters, and sometimes low ranked players can get queued with much higher ranked players and get totally destroyed. not to mention higher-ranked players creating another account to smurf in lower ranks. The ranking system is totally unfair, which makes competitive gameplay a lot less fun
  28. RidingAWalrus
    Feb 2, 2021
    3
    ( platinum 2 Played 150 hours and 1400 hours of CSGO) This game is an unpolished cheap Chinese mobile knockoff of CS. It is the most unenjoyable FPS experience ever made. Reyna is blatantly broken, rifles are **** maps are horribly designed and the movement is clunky and stiff. valorant vs cs is like paladins vs overwatch
  29. JuiceofMango
    May 9, 2021
    0
    Much worst than cs go and overwatch by the way dont forget toxic community 1 more dud game from riot
  30. W4sp
    Feb 4, 2021
    0
    This game could have so much opportunity yet it is an abomination of Cpunter Strike and Overwatch. The worst thing in this it doesn't work. The mechanics are slow and way worse than it was expected. Something's really wrong with it and I can't tell what it is. Perhaps the corners that slows you down because you won't know where they'll be or the teamplay that it is needed but can't workThis game could have so much opportunity yet it is an abomination of Cpunter Strike and Overwatch. The worst thing in this it doesn't work. The mechanics are slow and way worse than it was expected. Something's really wrong with it and I can't tell what it is. Perhaps the corners that slows you down because you won't know where they'll be or the teamplay that it is needed but can't work because most players are not esport professionals and if they try to solo queue they'll really have a bad time… Expand
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Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 42 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 36 out of 42
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 42
  3. Negative: 1 out of 42
  1. GameMAG
    Sep 12, 2020
    80
    Valorant has a high-quality and clean release without any problems. The game will definitely please fans of the competitive FPS genre. The eSports potential of the shooter has only become established over time, and the first tournaments are already planned. However, a high entry threshold requires serious skill training. But this only makes the game more interesting.
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  2. GameStar
    Aug 7, 2020
    86
    At first, this looks like just another Counterstrike clone. But there’s more depth and variety, despite the lack of content.
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  3. KeenGamer
    Jul 29, 2020
    80
    Overall, Valorant is a great game to play if you're a fan of first-person shooter strategy games. But it is also something that someone without experience with games like CS:GO can enjoy and pick up quickly. The Agents are, for the most part, balanced, and the planned addition of more should keep the game fresh. The overall style doesn't really land and the sound design needs to be fixed.
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