Valorant

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4.8

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 3892 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 1,501 out of 3892
  2. Mixed: 436 out of 3892
  3. Negative: 1,955 out of 3892

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  1. K02
    Sep 15, 2021
    8
    good good good good good ................................................................................
  2. dislexicpotato
    Sep 12, 2021
    8
    Valorant has a lot of the same issues that it's sibling League of Legends has but that doesn't change the fact that it is a highly polished fps with a lot of potential for the future. The game has interesting characters, deeply satisfying gunplay and excellent weapon balancing that provides a pretty solid experience overall. I just hope that Riot can manage to maintain long-term supportValorant has a lot of the same issues that it's sibling League of Legends has but that doesn't change the fact that it is a highly polished fps with a lot of potential for the future. The game has interesting characters, deeply satisfying gunplay and excellent weapon balancing that provides a pretty solid experience overall. I just hope that Riot can manage to maintain long-term support for this game at the same level as their main IP.… Expand
  3. FluffySheep2
    Sep 12, 2021
    0
    Why would you play this game over other shooters? The net code is terrible, bullet registration can be non existent at times, the agents are not that balanced (for example sova is way more fun to play over someone like breach) flashes can be a pain to deal with, bullets go anywhere they want to, its almost like the bullets follow rng, the guns are basically all instant kills. There areWhy would you play this game over other shooters? The net code is terrible, bullet registration can be non existent at times, the agents are not that balanced (for example sova is way more fun to play over someone like breach) flashes can be a pain to deal with, bullets go anywhere they want to, its almost like the bullets follow rng, the guns are basically all instant kills. There are smurfs everywhere. Players are really toxic, the anticheat is shady, their skin prices are questionable (they can cost like as much as new game, sometimes maybe even more than a new game). Now I understand that the devs need to make their money, but come on, for a game that really did not have a marketing budget, (they used the twitch streamer key code strat to get free publicity even before launch of the game) in a pandemic where ppl have lower pay or lost their job entirley, i think its a bit scummy to charge so much for a knife skin that you barely even see while youre playing the game. So, are there any positives? The game runs extremley well even on fairly cheap or old systems, you can have a playable experience on almost any system, but thats not an achievment for an esports game. The game is fun to play with freinds (if you care playing with more than 3 people in a party and in competetive queue, it can take a long time to get into a game), something funny does happen from time to time in the game. But thats about it, solo queue can be increbidly hit or miss, having either really kind teammates, toxic teammates, bad teammates, toxic opponents and so on. Do not be fooled by the 80 critic score, as of writing this review, nearly 60% of the user reviews are negative or good, which means a majority of the people writing a review for this game think that it is not good.
    If you just started playing this game or are thinking of playing it, stop, it is simply not worth it in my opinion, there are plenty of other shooters you can play.    … Expand
  4. OmegaGames
    Sep 11, 2021
    0
    From my experience the game is deeply flawed in many different ways, but I'm going to try to talk about stuff that people normally don't tell you about Valorant:

    Starting with the anticheat. That stuff needs to start with Windows and has to run in the background FROM BOOT and before you run the game. If you decide to close it, you will have to restart your entire windows operating    From my experience the game is deeply flawed in many different ways, but I'm going to try to talk about stuff that people normally don't tell you about Valorant:

    Starting with the anticheat. That stuff needs to start with Windows and has to run in the background FROM BOOT and before you run the game. If you decide to close it, you will have to restart your entire windows operating system for it to load again and obtain the kernel level access it says it needs.

    The movement is like really slow. It feels like you are walking but you are actually auto running by default. Moving through the map feels like you are slowly sliding over the floor because of the lack of animations and weight to the movement, there is no acceleration curve, no momentum to moving in this game.

    To shoot you first need to aim and to be completely dead still, no moving while you shoot. Recoil is still not reduced enough while aiming with the sight and hits are not marked clearly with a hitmarker sound or visual feedback. You just have to guess how much damage you have done and bullets don't register properly most of the time, it doesn't depend on your connection, they sometimes just go through and deal no damage.

    Games are long, graphics look like washed out rubber and animations in game are a joke. The game looks and feels and has the same feedback as a cheap indie game. No responsive, smooth and satisfying animations and sounds for you, not shooting feedback, no sprinting mechanics, no interactive and original map design, plain boring abilities...

    For you to like this you have to love CS so much you are willing to play a downgraded version of it and literally suffer for months while you get used to ignoring and compensating it's flaws and just be good and maybe, just maybe you keep playing it out of addiction from winning. The game is trash on any level deeper than that, you are not missing anything if you don't play this.    … Expand
  5. DazNerth
    Sep 9, 2021
    0
    the game is good but.... the suspension and ban sytem sucks you can acctualy being banned for 100 years im not joking they even wont refund anything the customer support also sucks they (sorry for my bad english)
  6. Hayal1
    Sep 5, 2021
    0
    The worst game that mankind ever made. Stolen mechanics and gameplay from other games. If you want to get one step closer to the suicide, than you should play this game for sure. Thanks Riot games for made the second worst game in human history. The first was league of legends ;)
  7. Bastion750
    Sep 4, 2021
    0
    Всё, что задумывалось как преимущества игры - оказались её недостатками, при этом же, недостатки не стали преимуществами. Ужасная стрельба, из палки в детстве лучше ощущения... Очень плохо, не знаю возможно ли хуже...
  8. aaa123123123
    Sep 3, 2021
    0
    poop :( .
  9. Noiza
    Aug 31, 2021
    2
    Good things first:
    This Game is for free and runed smoothly with high fps and good response.
    Now for the rest: This game is for a big company with that hype really dissapointing. The graphics are more like "meh" and from the arround 20(including seconds) highly boring designed weapons, everyone just uses two. since the rest are trash. Speaking of trash, the weapon handling is    Good things first:
    This Game is for free and runed smoothly with high fps and good response.
    Now for the rest:
    This game is for a big company with that hype really dissapointing.
    The graphics are more like "meh" and from the arround 20(including seconds) highly boring designed weapons, everyone just uses two. since the rest are trash.
    Speaking of trash, the weapon handling is just..disturbing.
    The skills are mostly just one blob of color of sightblock.
    Planting the bomb for 13 rounds is just strange and boring.
    This game could be a 8 year old MOD for CS:GO with gambled damage numbers.    … Expand
  10. 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
  11. Jwollfe
    Aug 28, 2021
    1
    TL:DR Game bad, me no wike. The game has problems with Sluggish movements for a CS clone, horrible monetization practices, flat graphics, no actual characters(They are empty husks) or story, no basic casual play, and only 5 maps to play on with the same basic weapons as CS but only like 3 primary of any use and the secondary being more balanced then them, and gameplay that is boiled downTL:DR Game bad, me no wike. The game has problems with Sluggish movements for a CS clone, horrible monetization practices, flat graphics, no actual characters(They are empty husks) or story, no basic casual play, and only 5 maps to play on with the same basic weapons as CS but only like 3 primary of any use and the secondary being more balanced then them, and gameplay that is boiled down to smoke off point and push. The only reason this game seems to have been created was for the soul purpose of creating profit.

    Intro-
    Where to start with this game. I genuinely was trying to like this gameAs an FPS veteran(going on like 11-12 years) and CSGo veteran with over 1000 hours, I hopped onto this game hoping for something to revitalize my dying soul and after playing it for about a week let me say this game failed to do so.

    1_Monatization-
    First, this game caters exclusively to pure comp, and that's it. there is no incentive to continue to play this game casually as you do not earn anything post-match. Games like Overwatch, Rainbow Six Siege, and dare I say CS, do this by giving post-match rewards at end of each match or when you level up. The cosmetic items are utter trash and cost way too much for a basic skin to be purchased with the decent skins costing more than a brand new game or a game that is fun to play(Upwards of 70-100 dollars for ONE skin). The monetization schemes that are in this game are worse than that of any CoD, Fortnite, or other popular shooter game.

    2-Graphics
    They are bland, unappealing and there isn't much to look at on each map, based on the reviews on this thread, I'm not gonna really beat a dead horse, but the game is not good looking/

    3-Characters
    When I hear "Hero Shooter" I expect a level of depth in the characters. Siege does this more in the bios and lore outside of the game and the same with overwatch. This game attempted to do it as well but, It didn't work out. There isn't any story as to why the characters are doing what they are doing. Overwatch it is because of Talon, Siege it's because of the white mask terrorist and the teams are training, Apex is because its a tournament that the competition is in. Valorant has no story and doesn't follow up on anything. Like they have all these character quotes but in the end, they mean nothing.

    4-No Casual play
    I realize that they released deathmatch and had a spike rush, and that's a good start, however with only like 5 maps that gets old real quick. They don't allow us to customize the game in a way like CS does with us creating whole other games within the CSGO engine or creating. There isn't anything like this and the game is just boring.

    5-Weapons/gameplay
    Weapons are trash and have like 3 good weapons. the others aren't fun as they can not be used in a comp sense. Vandal, phantom, op. That's all the usable weapons in this game. past that any other gun, except for the more expensive SMG that I can't be bothered to remember the name of that doesn't have 3 round burst and the judge if you want to have fun, the other weapons aren't even worth using. Bucky isn't good past like 2 inches from your face, Stinger is meh, the bulldog is trash the dmr is trash and the other sniper isn't worth buying. Also, why is there only like 12 guns in the game. CSGO has 34. Valorant what is your excuse, and if you say free I am going to blow my head off because a fully upgraded skin costs like 300 bucks. Do you know how many TY plush toys I can buy with that money theoretically? But yeah weapons are bad.. The gameplay is repetitive because only 4/5 of the game is playable and boils down to spam flashes/smokes and then push. Oh, you don't have smokes? well, Eat a dick you should have had smokes. Other games allow for other characters to carry other gadgets and tools to have utility and is plentiful throughout the game. Where is this in Valorant? non existant. Then let's not even talk about the server problems the game has where someone will not even be on your screen but your dead to them or they are still sliding around as the piss poor servers attempt to place them at like 4000 ping in Malaysia in you suburban town in Michigan.

    6-Conclusion
    I really tried to like this game. I even gave it more time than I give most games to play in a week, however, it didn't hook me and I can not say for the reasons above, recommend this game to anyone as it feels safe and built from the ground up as a scheme to generate cash. I mean **** they made rank queue for a game that was like 3 weeks old and only had a bunch of LoL players that haven't touched an FPS game in their entire life play it and call it a good game. This game is a complete and utter mess and after a year of it being out, It should have never came out in the state that it is in and feels rushed out the door. I really don't know how big streamers such as Pokimane and others endorse a product like this as it genuinely isn't good.    … Expand
  12. F3T1W
    Aug 27, 2021
    8
    Favorite jester, helped to prepare for the exam, a lot of interactions with the team, clutches and cool characters
  13. VikiSetyah
    Aug 25, 2021
    0
    Poor optimization,matchmaking is not fair i'm new player against team with lvl 30 so are you kidding ?
  14. Madsenpai
    Aug 24, 2021
    2
    This game has a total of 2 modes. Search and destroy, and free-for-all. You can only use your characters powers by playing the search and destroy mode, free for all doesn't even let you choose which character you're going to be playing as, not that it matters. Additionally, there are 2 versions of the search and destroy mode, one is considered quick, and is a best of 7, while the 'full'This game has a total of 2 modes. Search and destroy, and free-for-all. You can only use your characters powers by playing the search and destroy mode, free for all doesn't even let you choose which character you're going to be playing as, not that it matters. Additionally, there are 2 versions of the search and destroy mode, one is considered quick, and is a best of 7, while the 'full' game is best of 25! Playing a single match can take as long as an hour, between buying and traversing the one playable map. There's basically nothing to do, and the ge is easily forgettable.… Expand
  15. Belobix
    Aug 21, 2021
    0
    worst shooter i ever played.
    so much bugs and the developer dont fix that for years.
  16. awdawawd
    Aug 19, 2021
    1
    This game is like have your ballsacks tied to two ropes and playing tug of war with them. The only benefit of playing this is being more pissed off than you came in.
  17. tjholowaychuk
    Aug 16, 2021
    0
    Riot is trash, this game is boring, I don’t know why people would play it.
  18. WubWay
    Aug 14, 2021
    0
    Valorant was a very cool looking game in concept when it first showed up and the potential seemed to be limitless with the characters abilities and the meta changes whenever a new character would be introduced plus the promised high skill ceiling and that utilities and abilities would play only an assisting role in getting kills.

    Now, a little more than a year after its release the game    Valorant was a very cool looking game in concept when it first showed up and the potential seemed to be limitless with the characters abilities and the meta changes whenever a new character would be introduced plus the promised high skill ceiling and that utilities and abilities would play only an assisting role in getting kills.

    Now, a little more than a year after its release the game is still plagued by many issues it hasn't fixed since beta and it's showing no sings of fixing the issues any time soon.

    3 of those major issues are:
    1. Terrible Matchmaking.
    2. Broken Accuracy on all guns.
    3. Characters abilities have way to much impact.

    Terrible matchmaking?
    more often than not, when queuing up into valorant lobbies the game is already decided when you have been placed with significantly worse teammates than the opponents team, sometimes facing people 4 ranks above you meanwhile having teammates 4 ranks under you.

    It quickly becomes obvious that if you don't solo win every round and hard carry your entire team over and over and over you'll have no chance of winning the game whatsoever and if you'd play like you normally would and not like you're held at gunpoint facing certain death if you don't win the game, you'll be very unlikely of winning that game.

    Games are almost always incredibly one-sided and you're either on the team getting destroyed or you're the one destroying the enemy team.

    Broken accuracy on all guns?

    There's a meme in the valorant community called ''precise gunplay'' which is something infamously said in the trailer for the game when they talked about the games features and mechanics.

    The reason this is a meme is because valorant has some of the most terrible and downright devastatingly bad accuracy in any game right now. Normally, spraying in any game means that the accuracy exponentially gets worse and randomized in an increasingly growing pattern away from the crosshair but in valorant the spray only has a pattern for about the first 6 shots until it gets completely randomized and that is when you're standing still, like the game is supposedly intended to be.

    That is far away from the problem, because it's when you start to move around and shoot where the game goes into the deep end.

    The spray pattern on every single gun is 100% random when running and follows no pattern whatsoever which means you could hold your crosshair at someone's head while running and spraying and your bullets would have a chance to hit with perfect accuracy right on the crosshair instead of somewhere around it like it should actually be.

    Having people jump, fall, prefire, running and still getting kills while they are full spraying is something that happens all the time and it's incredibly frustrating to play against and is just painful when you spend many hours trying to become better at the game only to have someone kill you only because they where luckier than you.

    Characters abilities have too much impact?
    When the valorant devs first talked about the game and how each character had and unique role and playstyle, one that would be important to win the game but not the sole reason? There is already quite few characters in the game with abilities that can kill people almost for free with very little counter play other than picking one of few characters with a get-out-of-jail-free ability who could survive such a situation.

    If you're playing a character who has access to long ranged utilities you make it utterly impossible for the enemy team to win the round via defusing the bomb since they'd just die to you while you're 60 meters away behind 3 different walls.

    Valorant Has alot to work on and is far away from a perfect game, if you're going to play it I HIGHGLY recommend playing with 4 other people and only playing with people you know because going head first into this game alone is going to be one of the most frustrating and painful things you'll every do in any game you've played before.    … Expand
  19. Utin_XPAMOGUS
    Aug 9, 2021
    0
    **** you riot horrible game 0/10 i win bye bye.
    Pembahasan
    Perbedaan individualis dengan individualisme: Individualis menurut penjelasan diatas adalah suatu sikap, perilaku, tindakan individu yang memikirkan kepentingan dirinya sendiri lebih penting dibanding orang lain, serta juga bisa dianggap tanpa memikirkan kepentingan orang lain. Sedangkan Individualisme bisa juga dianggap    **** you riot horrible game 0/10 i win bye bye.
    Pembahasan
    Perbedaan individualis dengan individualisme:

    Individualis menurut penjelasan diatas adalah suatu sikap, perilaku, tindakan individu yang memikirkan kepentingan dirinya sendiri lebih penting dibanding orang lain, serta juga bisa dianggap tanpa memikirkan kepentingan orang lain.

    Sedangkan Individualisme bisa juga dianggap sebagai ilmu pengetahaun filsafat, yang memiliki pandangan moral sosial dalam berperilaku untuk mendapatkan kebebasan diri dan kepentingan diri sendiri yang ditanggung oleh individu tersebut.    … Expand
  20. jeremyjrp
    Aug 9, 2021
    0
    a trash game. i play valorant since the realese and I think it's not a fun game because my lag spike and the gameplay
  21. Fehnraal
    Aug 6, 2021
    2
    This game had nothing to enjoy in my time playing it.

    This game felt like it was still in the proof of concept stage. It's a bland mix of games like CS:GO and Overwatch. The launcher was buggy and required a restart every time I wanted to play. The weapons all appear to have bullet spread worse than Halo 1 shotguns. Weapons are also weak, and you get limited-use abilities. In the    This game had nothing to enjoy in my time playing it.

    This game felt like it was still in the proof of concept stage. It's a bland mix of games like CS:GO and Overwatch.

    The launcher was buggy and required a restart every time I wanted to play. The weapons all appear to have bullet spread worse than Halo 1 shotguns. Weapons are also weak, and you get limited-use abilities.

    In the matches I played, the community was extremely toxic. If you asked for tips, you were insulted. If you died early, you were insulted, if you used the wrong character/guns, you were insulted, etc..

    This game had nothing to offer except for how well it appears to be optimized.    … Expand
  22. thepigeonman3
    Aug 5, 2021
    0
    disappointing. couldve really been the modern, innovated csgo but fell short in every area. slow and clunky, all the weapons feel the same, limited, **** map pool, broken abilities. kinda **** up every aspect
  23. PopeFrancis1st
    Aug 3, 2021
    2
    Feels like Counter Strike but without the steep learning curve. The abilities feel like a novelty more than a feature in this game because it is so slow paced. It feels slow and booring. If you like csgo, you might like this game but if you did not, there is no way you will like it. I get the feeling the game was basically created to sell sklns on day 1 in my opinion.
  24. Alpha10
    Aug 2, 2021
    8
    Not an normal team based game , even if you are not good in shooting you can enjoy with strategy of different characters and powers .
  25. sploit
    Aug 2, 2021
    6
    played valorant for around 6 months game is decent, needs balancing fixes but the worst part is the community. everyone is a snowflake and you will be given 1 to 3 week bans for basically nothing. I would love to see this game become good but riot just loves destroying their games. if you slip up once its a 72 hr mute without the ability for comp. its BS, not to mention that if youplayed valorant for around 6 months game is decent, needs balancing fixes but the worst part is the community. everyone is a snowflake and you will be given 1 to 3 week bans for basically nothing. I would love to see this game become good but riot just loves destroying their games. if you slip up once its a 72 hr mute without the ability for comp. its BS, not to mention that if you lose power or something out of control happens, they slap a fat ban right in your face… Expand
  26. rhyoz
    Jul 31, 2021
    0
    boring game. Your review must be at least 75 characters long.Your review must be at least 75 characters long.Your review must be at least 75 characters long.Your review must be at least 75 characters long.Your review must be at least 75 characters long.Your review must be at least 75 characters long.
  27. SilentRonin
    Jul 26, 2021
    8
    A really good FPS team multiplayer in the line of CSGO. The powers make it alot of fun. Does tent to have a super toxic player base from time to time but is a fun game regardless.
  28. Suluyaylak
    Jul 22, 2021
    0
    Trash waste of time. Trash graphics, trash mechanics, trash community, trash skins, trash sounds they stole agents.
  29. 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
  30. friggvalorant
    Jul 17, 2021
    5
    as a supporter of valorant since the beta i am very disapointed in there support, iv been buying over priced skins for a while and i dont care about that, what i care about is the bugs and toxic plater base, the amount of bugs iv seen playing this game is astromoical, players will bug through walls to be unkillable, cheaters and smurfs are scattered everywhere i would get atleast 1 smurfas a supporter of valorant since the beta i am very disapointed in there support, iv been buying over priced skins for a while and i dont care about that, what i care about is the bugs and toxic plater base, the amount of bugs iv seen playing this game is astromoical, players will bug through walls to be unkillable, cheaters and smurfs are scattered everywhere i would get atleast 1 smurf in my game almost every game, and why cant they just ban offensive words in chat, just the other day we had a person on the enemy team spamming racial slurs in the chat over and over again and he didnt get muted by the game, how hard is that? they make the match making unbareable, and the servers are trash; my wifi speeds are perfectly fine but ill go and check valorant and the server ping is almost never good, not to mention the packet loss issue thats been going on for a couple days now in sea servers, every game me and my friends play recently is just unplayable because of this issue (we all play on a wired connection) competitive is just lost at this point because of the packet loss, i really do think the valorant support team doesnt care about other regions outside of na and eu since they have not addressed this issue on twitter or the valorant page, even though twitter users from sea servers are asking about it and asking valorant to adress it but they havnt even seen one, but when it comes to any issue on na/eu they just have to fix it like one region has priotrity over the other, quite racist if you ask me. i went to submit the ticket to valorant about it and all they did was tell me to used a wired connection like im not already doing that. overall this is not a bad game but over priced skins, bad match making and toxic fanbase and the devs who say they listen to player feedback are just listening to the famous and not the actual fanbase really does leave a stain on this game… Expand
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#66 Best PC Game of 2020
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#4 Most Discussed PC Game of 2020

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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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