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METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
Game
Game2024
Fallen Aces
Developer Trey Powell, Jason Bond
The A.C.E.S. Once the watchful guardians of Switchblade City - are being taken down, one by one. Now it's up to one man, with two fists, to get to the bottom of it all. Fallen Aces is a crime noir FPS that plays right out of the '90s and looks like it's right outta the comics. From the Steam store page
335 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Oct 5, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
85
LovedLoved
212 positive · 36 negative
95% range 81–89%
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| Steam reviews | 212 | 36 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
87 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Overwhelmingly Positive
6,739 of 6,970 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 335 · most liked firstSome new and improved Fallen Aces weapons for #ScreenshotSaturday Longer video next week! Almost 50 weapons in the game now. Episode 2 SOON™
unlabelledView post →So thanks to alla yous for bein' here and taking part in the development of this here video game we're makin! Episode 2 of Fallen Aces will be out sometime this year, alright?! See ya then, kiddo.
unlabelledView post →- 10 Brand new weapons - 7 Updated/Improved weapons - 50 Weapons in the game now, boss 🤌 - Episode 2 SOON™️ #FallenAces #ScreenshotSaturday #GameDev youtu.be/W8tVWl7GZTM?...
unlabelledView post →Happy to see @ultrakill-game.bsky.social 7-S and the @getgianni.com Fallen Aces Toilet Goon were named two of the Best Easter Eggs of 2024 by @funwithguru.bsky.social & Captain Eggcellent youtu.be/BN7Meo4PD4g?... youtu.be/w_xjfgu42y4?... We put a lot of work into our (sometimes literal) shitposts
unlabelledView post →Fallen Aces (2024 Early Access) Developed by @fallenacesdev.bsky.social and team this game rules, even in early access. check it out if you get the chance.
unlabelledView post →We've released a hotfix for Fallen Aces that has fixed the shader compatibility issue that was causing rendering bugs on integrated graphics and Linux / Steam Deck. The game should now be playable again and look real proper, boss! steamcommunity.com/games/141191...
unlabelledView post →To celebrate the release of The Fallen Aces level editor and Steam Workshop da game is on sale all week long, boss! 🤌 FallenAsses.com
unlabelledView post →Kaiser stop jumping between fandoms challenge: impossible anyways getting back into the drawing flow by doodling one of my favorite game enemies da goon #kaiserart #fanart #fallenaces
unlabelledView post →Fallen Aces is an absolute blast of a game and incredibly grateful to @caseyexplosion.bsky.social's curator list for recommending it Aside from it being an extremely cathartic brawler experience the art & sound design demonstrate a real love for the genre, and I love the encouragement to explore
unlabelledView post →And of course I'm going to bring up Fallen Aces, this game is the bees knees, the cat's pyjamas, and if you've been playing Mouse: P.I. For Hire and wanted more Noir goodness, then by golly you're on the trolly with this one!
unlabelledView post →Gonna try to post on here since Twitter is Hindenburging to the ground. I made this account before the game launched. If you played Episode 1 of Fallen Aces, thank ya. I hope you enjoyed it, we got a new update not far away.
unlabelledView post →Currently a mixed bag but still very worth playing either now or whenever it comes out. If the devs listen to the community it could be the perfect stealth action imsiv on full launch. Chapter 1 is amazing. Engaging unique story and art style. Instantly love Thane as a protagonist. Really replayable good levels with a perfect mashup of stealth, intrigue, exploration, and scrappy combat in smaller dense levels. Chapter 2 is fun but a bit more style than substance. I enjoyed the levels,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The entire New Blood Stealth Trilogy is on sale to celebrate! Fallen Aces is a stealth game sometimes... we swear! store.steampowered.com/bundle/47671...
unlabelledView post →Once again: Fallen Aces is fantastic, even in its current early access state. New Blood is always very transparent about their pricing plans and this one will be increasing as they add content to the game. There's even a bundle with Selaco, another phenomenal game that's well worth your time and $$
unlabelledView post →HOLY CRAP, The very first rooms in the first level, blew my mind and made me laugh, while I was able to do hilarious things like crouch jump into the fridge and close the door for no reason, it blew my mind that I was able to break the living room window, hear the sound of the wind blowing outside because it was now broken, but not only that, it wasnt all just a back drop out there, its a whole real world. I saw some birds and wondered if they were "real" so I took a pot off the stove and threw…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Episode 2.0 turned the game into an alpha state build... even for episode 1.... It is now entirely unplayable on steamdeck - using the default renderer shows all geometry as broken renders. Changing to vulkan works for the first level, then breaks even harder & kills your frames after. Was watching a friend play through it on windows, and while theirs rendered fine, the new levels were just filled with unfinished level design (holes and bad textures everywhere, completely empty rooms, etc),…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you already own Selaco, you'll get a bigger discount on Fallen Aces, but if you don't already own Selaco you'll get to play Selaco which is shaping up to be a god damn incredible game. Two Early Access gems right there. 👍
unlabelledView post →fun game you get to go up to a goon that says "oh yeah and what are you gonna do with that?" and then beat his head in with a lead pipe. and they are voiced by Gianni Matrgano wich makes it so much funnier.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its a good game in terms of the feel of combat, and the quality of its art style, but the overall package just feels confused and at war with itself. It wants to be a brawler, but it punishes brawling by making all drops break unless the enemy is defeated with a nonlethal stealth attack. It wants to be an imsim stealth game, but you can only ever carry three tools at a time with which to manipulate the game's systems and make openings for yourself to slip through. Exploration has plenty of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wrote get your act together, it`s been two years since Ep.1 released and their response: “You have been permanently banned from the Fallen Aces Hub. You were banned by a Fallen Aces developer. Reason: ‘Alt account spotted.’” I have no alt account, i was just responding to the latest update. Can`t recommend it even further, still only one episode after initial release and such salty developers. /Since I can`t reply or create new comment heres your answer Mr Developer. Eish, gurl, I ain’t…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →And, I know I'm rather belaboring the point with the artstyle here, but there's a level of commitment to the bit with Fallen Aces that I just have to admire, it's in the posters and billboards and advertisements you see ingame, and even the game menus, an admirably cohesive style across the board.
unlabelledView post →Seconding this recommendation Go get Fallen Aces, it's an incredible game; cathartic, fantastically designed, has everything you want in a classic style first-person brawler but everything done in a way that makes it truly stand out I'm a noir genre obsessive, and this is the good stuff
unlabelledView post →I dont give a ♥♥♥♥ HOW LONG episode 2 takes. I only care if it is gonna be good and have a lot of effort put into it. Keep up the great work yall are great.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →episode 2 finally came out and its buggy as ♥♥♥♥. loading times have increased 10x, performance has halved, tons of missing textures. I really thought it would launch in a better state given how many delays its had. good game but dont expect it to be finished for another 5 years at this rate.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →41. Fallen Aces God I love this game, the pulpy comicbook artstyle and gorgeous cutscene panels, Fallen Aces is a work of art. Gameplay wise, it's sorta Immersive Sim with first-person brawler mechanics and improved weapons, it's the business, capiche? store.steampowered.com/app/1411910/...
unlabelledView post →Fallen Aces feels like the result of developers making exactly the game they wanted to make instead of chasing trends. It has a distinct identity from the moment you start playing, and it commits to that vision in every aspect of its design. The comic book presentation is more than just a visual style. It gives the world a personality that sets it apart from almost everything else. Every level is packed with environmental detail, rewarding exploration and making each location feel lived in…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?" “As long as it takes, wise guy! But more than likely a year or two." 2 Years later and the only available episode is STILL only episode 1.... wtf happened here? I'm gonna leave a positive review regardless but seriously keep the top in mind if you consider buying it, this is one of those games that give EA a bad rep for certain. There is between 3-5 hours of content here depending on how quickly you burn through it and if you plan…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game took so long to get anything done mouse pi came out of no where and stole its thunder. 2 years to maybe make 1 act means this game will be in ea for 4 to 6 years minimum which i think just isnt reasonable will probably be a great game when its finished
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Drew Mike from Fallen Aces during my break at work please play the game I beggg #fallenaces #newblood
unlabelledView post →i cant tell you any praise that a billion other reviews havent already said, so i will voice my one and only criticism. My GOD the development on this game is SLOWWWWWW. I get that you wanna make things perfect, and a delayed good game is better than a rushed bad game, but we heard about this game almost 3 years ago, and so far we have 5 levels. By this rate, the planned 3 chapters of this game is gonna take about 10 years. As good as this game is, it's not a game that should take 10 years to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →SML 1019 is HERE and we've got @barronjcomposer.bsky.social joining to chat about the soundtrack and game Fallen Aces (@fallenacesdev.bsky.social @newblood.games) alongside @ladymagritte.bsky.social @mrfreight.bsky.social & @gunplagirlfriend.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-XP...
unlabelledView post →First, let me clarify that I am only talking about Episode 2 in this review, since it's the most recent part that came out. I will be updating this review once the full game is released, but untill then I think it is important to give my opinion on its current state (I think chapter 1 was overall pretty good, anyway). The Good; Most of the new areas are solidly designed, with plenty of side routes and secret areas that make the levels feel big and encourage thoroughly exploring the whole…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really do like this game, but waiting two years for an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ update... Yeah, can't recommend it. Update: Yeah, more than two years and we've got an horrid unoptimized mess of an episode. Think twice before buying a New Blood game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm not altogether sure what I was expecting when I first saw the trailer for Fallen Aces some years back. But I can't stress enough that what I got when I finally sat down to try it was an absolute blast of a game that I couldn't put down for more than a few hours at a time. Although there's plenty that can be said about the game's visual presentation, I'm going to focus primarily on the gameplay, as it's the most important aspect and thankfully, the strongest. Far from a simple run n' gun…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Decent boomer shooter that for some reason tries to call itself an immersive sim. Maybe in the same way Dishonored is? Movement and combat is so overwhelmingly skewed in favor of the player that you'll have very few issues playing this game like it's a Condemned .wad, with the imm sim elements amounting to where you enter the next slaughter house and a different line of dialogue on one map if you kill a guy. The story feels like a millennial's bad parody of the Noir genre mixed with surface…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fallen Aces is amazing. At the time of my writing this, there are only 5 levels but they are incredible. It feels like a genuine immersive sim, and it has a great story that I was thoroughly engaged with. The film noir tone is unmatched in video games, and I am genuinely sad that I have completed all the available content that can be played. The combat, the stealth, and the gameplay are phenomenal as well. This is a rare instance in which I can say that I game is damn near perfect. I cannot…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What I thought I was buying, based on screenshots and a cursory glimpse at gameplay, was a brawler FPS with nice art. What I actually got was a bonafide Imsim, with open ended levels that give you multiple options and tools to complete the objective. Fists, guns, knives, harpoons, whiskey bottles or even complete stealth. Couple that with excellent presentation, great voice acting and a surprisingly compelling story. Shaping up to be an EA success and another New Blood win. You can tell the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fantastic episode 1, but after 2 years of development Episode 2 is so terrible with empty enviorments/rooms that's low detaild with misaligned/low res textures making episode 2 geniunly look worse than the 2020 demo, the art direction also just disappeared with floors that's disconnected stock images. The whole chapter just feels like you are playing in an low-detailed out of bound area compared to episode 1. Level/quest design as well as the story also feels more incomplete(or even…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If my computer can't run the game at launch, that's on me. If I can run the game at launch, but the developers change the system requirements when they release episode 2 and it doesn't work any more, that's their fault.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I generally like everything about this game. this may be a hot take here but I think it does BioShock better, but BioShock isn't worse than this game. I know that's pretty paradoxical but that's how I feel. The storyline has a Venture Bros. vibe to it mixed with the Watchmen and Batman with better than BioShock gameplay and level design. Best way I can describe it. For me this is easily one of the best games to come out in recent memory. I loved the Mouse PI game for what it was, but that game…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unfortunately gonna have to leave a thumbs down for now as of episode 2 release. It's just not polished and buggy. Ground dissapears when I drive the car, the car itself feels like controlling soap on wet floor. The AI is just stupid, walking in circles, police not breaking the fight when thugs come punch me right in front of their eyes, ONLY intervening when they accidentally punch police officers. What's so immersive about that? They just stand there pretending it's not happening. And all I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While a fun game on it's own, with somewhat good replayability. It's got not much of the story, essentially a endless early access that doesn't offer much besides a 15 dollar price tag. While the map design, spritework, and art style is incredible, the fact it barely contains more than a couple hours of playtime for over 2 years now with the promise of "episode 2" being dangled in our face non-stop is disappointing. It doesn't help that to remedy this, they made a post saying "Go check out the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ AWESOME, like Doom and Deus Ex had a baby and you're beating the ♥♥♥♥ out of goons! Watchmen pastiche done epic!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fallen Aces the crime noir FPS is now Steam Deck Verified with the Wheels of Steel update https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/fallen-aces-the-crime-noir-fps-is-now-steam-deck-verified-with-the-wheels-of-steel-update/ #FallenAces #SteamDeck #Linux #PCGaming #FPS
unlabelledView post →Do you like imsims? Noir pulp? Silver age comics? XIII - the game from 2003? GOONS? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, don't be square, and play Fallen Aces* *(It's still in early access tho, so my spare pick is Buckshot Roulette, great bite-sized game, for price of a beer can)
unlabelledView post →Popular FPS Fallen Aces gets Steam Deck support in the latest update https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/popular-fps-fallen-aces-gets-steam-deck-support-in-the-latest-update/ #SteamDeck #FallenAces
unlabelledView post →I cannot give this a positive review with how unplayable episode 2 is in terms of performance. I don't know what exactly happened where the game went from loading basically instantly with it maxing out my FPS cap (120) to the new episode where it can take multiple minutes to load and then it stutters heavily when walking through new areas or when enemies are on active. That and the frame rate dropped heavily from, again, maxing out my cap to struggling to hit above 60 stabily. It fluctuates…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love this game, but chapter 2 is a huge disappointment. Other people have said why chapter 2 is a downgrade but I'm going to mention something I don't see brought up. The pacing The first two levels of Episode 2 are big empty spaces that aren't clear on what your even supposed to do. The objectives were confusing in chapter 1 and it took me over 2 hours to complete while every chapter in episode 1 only took a little over 30 minutes (Not including secrets). I get that the devs are…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Firstly this game is amazing but despite that there are some cons as it is still in early access and only has one episode. goods: 1. I feel like whatever your playstyle is, this game can let you play however you want. 2. The art is fabulous. 3. The maps feel like love have been put into them. Bads: I love stealth but it feels pointless, there should be a reward for not being caught while keeping bodies well hidden, maybe a secret dialogue?
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game has a great setting, atmosphere, art style and humor. The level design and the levels itself are really well crafted and oozes atmosphere. If you are into Noir and Art Deco, you will really enjoy it! Here is what the game isn't: An Immersive Sim like the Steam Tags suggest. The Inventory system the game has, limits your playstyle drasticly and i think it's really holding the game back. You got 3 slots, weapon, ammo, health items each take one slot so you are forced to play the way…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game runs like poop in most recent episode/update, even though i was playing this game around 80 FPS not too long ago everything now stutters and takes forever to load, this wasn't the yummy baked product that the creator insisted he would provide in forum posts and updates lol. I know the game isn't done but it's hella lazy to release a half baked update
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dave Oshry and Raf Colantonio talk about approaches to Early Access and the development of indie immersive sims Gloomwood and Fallen Aces. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPBD...
unlabelledView post →tight ass game it's basically a new max payne + xiii + condemned what more do you want ya mook?
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i wasted 15 dollars on a game that only gives me 3 hours of gameplay and haven't heard anything about the next update. This game is a wasteland don't buy it cuz there's absolutely do afterwards.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I only just started playin, but lemme tell you FUGGETTABOUTIT dis game right 'ere is the type o' game you should be playin if you loive this typa scenary. Makes me feel like im playin bioshock all over again wit the atmosphere. like a chef's kiss specially when you're knocking some bozo goon ova the 'ead with a bottle o' ace cola and then smackin his friend around with a mean left hook. Buy. This. Game. That is an oida.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →RETURN OF THE IMMERSIVE SIM - thru 11.25 System Shock 2 @nightdivestudios.bsky.social Shadows of Doubt @colepowered.bsky.social @fireshinegames.bsky.social Fallen Aces @newblood.games Blood West @hyperstrangesa.bsky.social Peripeteia @90sgraphics.bsky.social Ctrl Alt Ego @mindthunk.bsky.social
unlabelledView post →Until I played Fallen Aces, I thought I hated hunting for secrets in videogames. Turns out, I just hate hunting for secrets in visually noisy levels where half the climbable things are unclimbable and there's invisible walls spackling every nook and cranny! In Fallen Aces, it's fucking great!
unlabelledView post →Game is called Fallen Aces. It's a mobster-themed indie fps immersive sim on Steam, but in early access.
unlabelledView post →One of, if not, THE BEST Immersive Sim in the modern day. It takes itself seriously while also not taking itself seriously. -Goon dialogue is top notch. -Level design is perfect. -Loads to explore in every mission. -Weapon Variety. -Lots of secrets and alternate routes to accomplish your objective. -Great game. *NEEDS ACHIEVEMENTS* "I try to think but nothin' happens."
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →More fallen aces fanart I love this game so much #fallenaces #fallenacesfanart #newblood
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