The First 'Scorn' Reviews Have Arrived, And Feedback Is Mixed So Far

When games are described as "works of art" to me that usually translates as an experience but not necessarily a fun one.

Will be interesting to see how this is received by the general gaming audience.

I wouldn't call that "mixed reviews" lol the game will easily average a 8/10 and 80 on metacritic when all reviews come in, NME has a history of wrong scores, they don't know how to score games, everybody knows that about them

@Kaloudz I know! But the game is on GP, so I guess it won't hurt to give it a spin.

@Kaloudz Yeah. It looked way too similar to Agony and we know how that one turned out.
Hopefully, Scorn turns out better.

this website bestgamingprice gave the game a 9/10 but said the only con is "body horror is too scary" lol
@Kezelpaso also i think it's too early for a headline like that, 2 reviews is nothing to say "mixed" about. gotta wait for at least 5 or more

Was never going to be a 10/10 so I don't know what people expected, the experience will vary by person, those that enjoy horror, puzzles and the aesthetic will love the game.

I will try it anyway that’s the beauty of gamepass .

Expect it to linger at low 70s to high 60s on meta....but I'm still interested

@Kaloudz I didn't try Agony, but I read about it! So, is it a sequel planned? Lol!

Yeah most of us here have been saying this would split opinion. I’ve been looking forward to it and I’m still gonna play it as it’s on Gamepass and looks interesting to me. It might be sh*t, I’ll see 😄

I'll wait and see what others have to say. If it's hard to play (through either mechanics or presentation) then I'll likely give it a miss.

@BRUTALSAM I highly doubt it’ll average somewhere in the 80s; I’m thinking it’ll be more along the lines of mid 70s.

On a side note - I’ll try the game out but I’m not expecting much. Additionally, it’s more of a puzzle game and I’m just not a fan of that. I’m going in with little to no expectation so who knows - I might be genuinely surprised.

People kept expecting a first person shooter when literally none of the prerelease info showed it as such.

This has always been been shaping up to be a game like Myst, or any of the adve ture games of old.

@HarmanSmith That's the awesome thing about Game Pass, you can use it as a way to play infinite demos. I love horror but just a few IPs do it right in my opinion, Project Zero, Silent Hill, Resident Evil and little else. We'll see about this one.

@BartoxAbrasiveness I remember IGN used to do it a lot where they'll say a lot of negatives about a game and end up giving it a 8/10 or reverse praise it and give it a 7/10

Xbox will always trail Playstation in the exclusives department. Every big PS exclusive is guaranteed to be mind blowing, Xbox not so much. This is wat worries me about Starfield. If it was a PS exclusive i’d be far more confident in it’s quality.

@sjbsixpack I agree, Destruction Allstars was mind blowing in its sheer awfulness.

@UltimateKGB This isn’t really good argument. You pick one game out of dozens. The overall point of their comment is correct.

I will say that FH5 was mind blowing for me. So I need more of that kind of experience from Xbox.

Definitely has the Agony taint — luckily the GP inclusion will make checking it out pretty painless.

@FatalBubbles to be fair it was a tongue in cheek comment (and I did miss the bit about big exclusives).

Honestly I’m not that big a fan of most of the 1st party exclusives from all 3 console makers with the exception of Forza and Halo and not really even played either of the last one of each of them.

@sjbsixpack Not sure about that. Forza and Halo Infinite were both triple A games last year, in my opinion. As far as Sony, I tried Ghosts of Tsushima, Death Stranding and Spider Man Miles Morales - all on PS Premium and didn't like any of them. I also didn't like GOW at all so a great exclusive game is obviously subjective.

Hopefully it is more fun than it looked in the 1st hour impressions I saw. One guy said there is zero dialog, zero cutscenes, zero combat for that 1st hour (which is almost 20% of the game based on the devs 6 hour claim). He said there is no hint of a story that he could tell. I like puzzle games just fine but this seems like a letdown from the survival horror fps that the trailers made it seem like.

I have it installed and ready for tomorrow but my expectations are substantially lower than they were a month ago.

I'm all for this game, because it's not the same regurgitated casual gameplay like most today, for example, get on a horse or in a car, go A to B going high and low whilst getting your hand held along the way with directions or voice dialogue's, find an item, add cosmetic clothing, use skill points for upgrades, solve a quest, watch a cinematic scene 20 times, beat a boss or a mini boss by hacking, slashing, shooting with a rifle, go to X Y Z, to then finish a check list. Games that leave me to my own demise having to use my brain by problem solving with puzzles or just naturally trying to find my own way is right up my alley, but most people get stressed out with stuff like that because they don't want to try, people are used to the same types of gameplay these days like mentioned above and if it ain't that, then it ain't good.

I will play it as i have gamepass so its essentially free whether i enjoy it enough to finish it thats another matter but i certainly want to see it as it looks interesting

@Warriooh So, you don't like video games. Gotcha

@sjbsixpack I'd agree but scorn wasn't made by xbox, and is also coming to playstation next year.

@UltimateKGB I forgot about Psychonauts 2. That was a great game as well!

Playstation does have some great exclusives...but ps fanboys also make out they are pooping out nothing but hits...quite a few ps exclusives wouldn't be considered anything special if they where multi platform games...totally blown out of proportion how good some of their exclusives are

This game is obviously going to be divisive. As a fan of HR Giger and David Cronenberg, the Amnesia games and more I'm clearly the target market. But these niches are hardly mainstream, this is a game which COULDN'T BE more subjective for the player and one in which everyone remotely interested would do better in ignoring reviews altogether due to the subject matter of this game.

@Serpentes420 Classics retro from the 80s, and beyond, games that have never been done before like indie games, not COD, FIFA, GTA, battle royale games, etc etc that most play, any recommendations young padawn?

@Warriooh Have you played Manifold Garden? Looks like we have similar game interests and Manifold Garden was an incredible experience for me

I never take a guardian review seriously lol

@Moto5 No but I have just looked it up after you mentioned it, it made my mind boggle, i ended up buying it haha, thank you the recommendation man, I've been playing antichamber that is fairly similar recently and a game called kubic.

@UltimateKGB not exactly a big game. It was free!!

@Romans12 yeah, of coarse it is. I myself don’t like Halo. FPS shooters i’d rather be on earth using real weapons, much prefer COD to Halo. You could always look at sales and awards tho. God Of War for example sold over 20 million copies and won Game of the Year beating Red Dead 2 in to second place, another incredible game. My current fav Xbox game has gotta be Forza H 5. Gears is decent but not on same level as the likes of God of War an Uncharted 4.

It sounds like the game doesn't attempt to hold your hand at all when playing. Of course that's going to be divisive, so many gamers today have been brought up with "Press X for the game to play itself".

@BRUTALSAM yeah, it would be more accurate to call the reviews "mostly positive." There are far more above-average review scores listed in this article than below-average.

More like tech demo. Boring

The game looks freaking amazing. Combat is so so but I'm avoiding most fights and running through the labrynth in order to do so . It's a really haunting experience, great exclusive imo. Some of the combat can always be patched later, think it's a good bite sized game that doesn't overstay it's welcome

@Warriooh I find Scorn to be pretty refreshing for many of the reasons you've just said

Quite liked Deathloop, but this one is hit my bag. A little too obtuse. Gamepass is great because ut lets us llay games normally would avoid and very much looking forward to Tuesdays release.

its not survival and not horror, just simple h.r.giger look a like puzzle game with 6 hour of main story...