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Glitchpunk
Developer Dark Lord
Inspired by classic top-down action games, Glitchpunk lets you brawl, shoot and drive your way through a dystopian future. As an android bounty hunter in a brutal world of gangs, cults and corporations there’s plenty of work for you. Lock and load, let her rip! From the Steam store page
123 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Mastodon, Bluesky) · newest Sep 21, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
46
Mixed
53 positive · 63 negative
95% range 37–55%
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7 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mixed
123 of 253 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 123 · most liked firstEDIT 3: LOL! I can't believe I am updating my review months later, but I hear and see that this game has been abandoned for many many months, with many glaring issues and bugs going unaddressed. Not surprised at all. This edit is A WARNING for any potential customers. See the behavior of the staff and the fact that the game has been abandoned for months, and proceed with caution. EDIT 2: I commented on a post from another user on the discussions, it was deleted, and then when I replied again…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Update: Now, years later, on the game itself, which finally hit 1.0. "Glitchpunk" is a very generic GTA 1/2 clone with batteries hacking included, I'd even say it is almost a carbon copy, but take it with a grain of salt as I did not touch GTA for ages. Also, please, note, that because "Glitchpunk" imitates the games of the era long gone, the gameplay feels dated, which is not an issue per se, but one should be ready to enjoy the gaming hardships of the times immemorial, heh. Update: The…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Caution: Contains game-crippling ADEROW DRM, Denuvo's parasitic smaller cousin via playgenuine. I got lucky and found this for $2.50 online from a real shady part of the internet. My pc is fairly high-end, however I had a lot of gameplay issues, stuttering, and several crashes requiring reboots. Not the typical behavior for 99.89% of games I run on this rig. There isn't much content to be had at the moment for the regular asking price. These early access games can go either way - a complete…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Update: There was a large patch on September 30th, Quality of Life update that should have fixed most of the serious technical issues. I haven't replayed the game yet. The game punked me immediately upon starting it by skyrocketing my fps to 482 in the main menu, effectively stun locking my GPU at 100% and 75°C in seconds. And my PC isn’t exactly a potato that needs frying, running an RTX2070, i7-7700K and 32GB of RAM, with an SSD to boot. Without capping the fps, it climbs to about 90…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →visual: 6/10 audio: 6/10 gameplay: 5/10 narrative: 5/10 challenge: 5/10 replayability: 5/10 value: 5/10 personal grade: 3/10 bugs - 2 pros: - good variety of weapons/hacking modules - karma system with different gangs - branching narrative cons: - no manual or auto save - extremely long loading screens - unbalanced gameplay - infinite movement drift (not a keyboard issue) - key bind menu glitched out - gun shooting & car driving is insanely clunky - so many other bugs… total score: 4.75/10…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I see potential in this game if the devs don't abandon their project and keep polishing it until it is fully complete. To speak for its current state, it's alright-ish. The main reason I got the game is because it reminds of the days I used to play GTA 2 when I was a kid. I hope devs keep supporting their game and improve it in the future.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is not a review but more a warning. Right now, the third city/map does not seem to function. For me the game crashes every time when I try to load this map. The other 2 maps work perfectly fine. This also means that you can't play the 4th map as you need to have finished the story of map 3. I also haven't found any gameplay of map 3 or 4 online and with that in mind I believe that these maps are bugged and do not actually work. I concede that this could be a problem on my end, but why do…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just a quick headsup, alot of reviewers are saying the game is abandoned? well after joining the discord (linked on the store page) i can confirm the game IS NOT abandoned.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sadly, I can't recommend this right now. I'm a huge fan of the genre. 20 years ago I spent hundreds of hours playing GTA1 and GTA2. I like the core concept. I appreciate the idea of bringing it into a cyberpunk setting. But the performance issues are absolutely crippling. I couldn't enjoy the game. Once they are fixed I'll be back to play more and update my review.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ [Updated 15.08.21] I didn't expect that the DEVELOPER ITSELF would answer me. the first "review-sword" still hit you, I suppose. It's funny. Many in the comments didn't rate it very well, but when I read your answer, I smiled. Well, if you want to find out what exactly is wrong in your game, you can read other negative reviews, I will not say anything new. Everything has long been written for me. You yourself already know your mistakes, and you know what I'll write next, I'm sure.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →GTA2 clone with terrible driving. Pros: • Looks and feels like GTA2 in almost every aspect • Additional cyberpunk elements • Some refreshing elements for GTA2 fans like: mouse targeting, diagonal roads, suburban areas, inventory system etc. Cons: • There is something really wrong with vehicle driving, which makes it MUCH harder and MUCH less satisfying, than original GTA2. I'm not sure what, though... Perhaps cars are too bouncy? Or too "slippery"? Or too light? • No tutorial whatsoever. If…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am very sad to say that I cannot recommend this game in it's current condition. > Game is badly optimised and runs poorly > Resolution just seems off and textures poor quality > Police respawn just off camera and shaking the police seems near impossible > Story not engaging > Radio mostly talk radio and quite annoying I really hope it improves and I'll probably pick it up again on full release once these issues are resolved.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →GTA 2 is one of my all-time favorite games. The weird mish-mash design of art deco, brutalism and futurism, the sick soundtrack, the wacky missions and dark atmosphere all made it really memorable for me. There was a reason why I played this game so much: I didn't have a proper PC, and I stuck with a really old one for many years. Therefore most of my video game consumption were old titles and really bad, dirt cheap, budget Polish games which flooded Hungary's market around that time (these…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you think about spending money on this - DONT At this point game is just unplayable yet. Performance are so poor I couldn't control anything - basic movements make character stuck in one direction, esc to open main menu can't do it consistently. Graphics by default is setup to ultra, but all I can see is blurred stuff all over. It's not nearly similar to the gameplay trailer. It just ate all my RAM for nothing. I was able to play initial launch Cyberpunk on my device and had less…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →GTA2-like that's a bit too overwrought for its own good. Got tedious to play real fast. It doesn't help that your character and the driving feel floaty and unresponsive so the moment to moment gameplay is rendered subpar. I can only recommend to those with a lot of patience for these type of games but we all know that's in short supply.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really want to like this game, but it's hard. Technical difficulties aside (choppy frame rates), I spent most of my time in game trying to find npcs to kill, so I could have enough money to buy ammo or guns to run a mission. NPCs are ridiculously hard to find. so 1.8 of my 1.9 hours was spent running around an empty map just to get enough money for a basic weapon. **Edit** Came back a couple months later. If you treat it like a bullet hell, it's a bit more enjoyable. But... eehhhh. The…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Review of Alpha. Been on my wishlist ever since I saw it, since it did look a lot like gta2, which was my prime streaming game for a long time, so gave it a shot as soon as I could (didnt play demo though). Will start with positives: + Really does feel inspired by old gta's a lot: radio (humor and songs), gang-respect system, tank-controls in car, saves at home, burping, gouranga and other small things - pretty cool! + Upgrade system which carries itself into re-playthroughs + Multiple endings,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was expecting a GTA2-style-game with a cool cyberpunk look. What I got was a game that was far too difficult to control. Frustration from the second mission onwards, due to a difficulty level that was too high. Police cool down is way too high. It has frame drops and freezes some times. Yes it is EA, but please do something to make the game better.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I know what you're saying. "This is on sale for only $1? I see it's unfinished but it can't be that bad right?" Well it is worse then you could ever imagine. I've played a lot of ♥♥♥♥♥♥ games, but this one takes the cake. The mission design is absolute trash. One mission had me pick up someone, then drive to a location in hostile gangs territory just for me to buy a consumable, then go somewhere else. I know that this game is heavily inspired by GTA&2 but they have somehow taken everything…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanted to play this game, and after a full rebuild with way overpowered everything, i saw this released and was all in. This game was literally going to destroy my pc. It kept overheating and powering completely off. Feeling the case, it was hot. So I tested several other games that all ran at 35 to 40c, but when i booted up glitchpunk they immediately spiked to 50, and kept climbing. I wasnt even in game yet, just the start menu. Maaaybe one minute later i watched as my gpu was…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While I was far from impressed with Glitchpunk in its current state, I think it shows great promise and could be an exceptional top-down shooter when all is said and done, and the issues are patched out. Glitchpunk is currently in Early Access, and I'd gladly revisit it and revise my score when it launches. - 40/100 PROS: Story Works Well With The Dystopian Vibe Good Combat Balancing Perfectly Scratches That Nostalgic Itch CONS: No Manual or Auto Save Lots of A.I. Bugs (It's Raining…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Glitchpunk is a tribute to old school GTA style games with a cyberpunk skin. There are some fun elements like the mechanical modifications you can make to give yourself lots of ways of fighting enemies, but overall is kind of a shallow buggy experience right now and I'd say wait for a few updates before checking back in on it. Check out my full review here! https://youtu.be/fEwnCnXnn6U
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →don't recommend its now 2023 and is still in early access... disappointing last update was in 2022..... game laggs
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Short take on this is to avoid as it is STILL a buggy mess with outright game-breaking bugs with a list of official work arounds posted in the forum. Not a great look that these haven't been addressed in the 18 months since it first hit early access. Started this out on the Steam Deck. While a plus is that it runs and detects the controllers, what isn't great is running head first into a bug where you get to the 2nd or 3rd tutorial prompt and cannot proceed. Where you earlier can close the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tl;dr: this game is very hard. Very pretty, but very hard. I enjoy and recommend it, but there are very good reasons not to get it. The game is definitely in Early Access, which shows but also leaves room for improvement. Pros, as I see it: I love the art style. What can I say, I'm a sucker for the aesthetic. I enjoy the intro/hook, and it leads into potentially good story The factions have personality The soundtrack is very fun Cons: It's very hard. I'm not very good at games, and running on…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Waited and waited for this to be improved, but it is still horrible, really tried to like it, but just a mess. Awful controls, poor optimisation. Just bad all the way around.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was really excited for this game but it failed to deliver in so many ways. I expected something fresh and fun but what I found was a game with zero story, world building, or fun game mechanics. it is a welcome change and addition to the gaming world that may spark and inspire better made games of this sort that is the only positive i see from this game....hopefully better games of this kind get the green light. but this game missed big IMO. when i play this game all i want to do is turn it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was really excited to play this but between the constant lag moments & the random crashes I ended up refunding it. Looked like a great game from what I COULD play of it. Running an i7-7700K GTX 1080Ti with 32GB RAM. This game is NOT ready for early access. I'll gladly buy it again once they iron out the bugs but as is now it was unplayable for me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You'd expect this game with simplistic graphics to work decently on any machine. Well I get it's in early access, but I cannot play a game with 20 fps.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is probably amazing for every fan of GTA 1 & 2. Alas, at least for me it's currently pretty much unplayable. After playing for about 5 minutes the game keeps freezing about every 30 seconds for 1-2 seconds and that's just unacceptable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't understand why the hate against this game. Its a great GTA2 alternative, but its more than just a skin. The cars are indeed floaty, but that's because they are actually hovering. You can get used to it in 2 minutes. Just press SPACE to stop if you are sliding the wrong direction. BTW, it has never been easy to drive in GTA 1-2 either, and this is pretty much the same experience imo. The game is fun, but it's fun like we had in the 90s, so not the same experience as today's AAA games.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →since im oldschool and clearly remember holding GTA 1 in my hands without knowing anything about it, but loving it since minute 1 - i was really "hyped" for glitchpunk and i still am. can't wait for the 3 upcoming cities and all that stuff. that's the good part and now the bad one - performance! i7 10700, RTX 3070, 32gb RAM. -game stutters very often for no reason -fps while walking ~100+ with stutters and while driving fps go completely nuts, even below 60... i mean, cmon -after 20-30 min…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Could do with a little polish, but does the job of GTA nostalging incredibly well. Love how weird the radio stations are the general vibe. I think has a lot of potential.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Beyond the way the game was abandoned for a long period of time, the game just genuinely does not feel good to play. Floaty controls, cars hitting the most minor of obstacles constantly, and the horrendously boring missions ruin any value the game's story or visual design brings. I got this for $1.79 on Fanatical, and even at that price, I wouldn't consider this game worth it. Considering the normal price of $20, this is a terrible game to buy. For your Grand Theft Auto 2 fix, pick up a copy of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ahhhhhhh.... not good. I can't really contemplate playing the game because I can't find a combination of settings where I like the way it looks. There is a weird blurry quality. Some of the geometry is really crude. Some textures look really low res. Lines in tiles look bad on all anti aliasing levels. A complicating factor seems to be that some setting changes don't seem to apply straight away, even though many times they do. So maybe I have not seen it at its best? even though I spent 40mins…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Blurry on the highest settings. Screen tearing with no v-sync option as far as I saw. Incredibly slow start up with walking back and forth across the map. The demo was more fun and looked better. It's worse than The Simpsons: Hit & Run and I liked The Simpsons: Hit & Run. With the reviews talking about drm and this poor release, I'm refunding while I can. Oh, and the driving is trash.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unplayable due to constant freezes and game-breaking bugs. On top of that, the graphics are horrible, even on ultra. Do NOT buy!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can't review or recommend the game for now. Give it time as it was released too early into open access: Main issue: an action game like that has NO CONTROLLER support. It relies on the steam input thing, which maps the keyboard-mouse control onto another input device and this just doesn't work at all right now. Not really. Glad I got it on a discount but it's a shame it's nowhere mentioned. I'm a fan of anything cyberpunk/outrun and this game can be great. Just don't buy it now if you like…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The simplest summary I could give you is GTA2 with a cyberpunk skin. Mechanically it's not doing anything you haven't seen before, but that's not a bad thing. There's a decent if relatively basic story, good music and fairly large world with a lot of potential. You play an android bounty hunter, but really you're more of a mercenary. You can steal cars, get in gang fights and shoot your way through various cults and corporations to achieve the goals you are hired to complete. If you enjoy…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →> Tank is at the First map Bottom Left corner in a base with locked gate, you gonna see a red roof and the Tank inside ( Hope that helped someone who needed this achievement ) An impressive GTA 2 clone, outstanding graphics... i missed the good ol 2D grand theft shooter, bring me chills. Got it on a -90% sale and believe it... the game is just a roler-coaster of good memories... Love the game! *NOTICE* To remove stuttering and lag, reduce the video settings and disable blur, shadows and any…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is bad, in the sense that the controls seem to be extremely counter-intuitive. I cant even drive a car in a straight line. They promised chaos. They delivered chaos. But not in a good way. There is no way I can make this game work for me. The controls are a dealbreaker.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Eh. The sense of nostalgia I get from this game is pretty awesome but I would not recommend it. I bought it, tried playing the intro mission, and found that the NPC gang leader that talks to you throughout the mission ends up babbling bits of dialogue from much further into the game, talks about things and situations I haven't even encountered. Naturally I thought this was a bug, so I tried to make a new save and starting the mission over. Same thing. I thought "ok maybe the dialogue is just…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →⭐⭐ Classic GTA meets Cyberpunk. While the idea sounds fun in theory, the execution leaves a lot to be desired. Definitely not worth the full price in its current state, I'm glad I got this for free. The potential to be a good game is there, but for now I recommend waiting. The last update was 2 years ago, though, so you may have to wait forever.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really wanted to like this game, but it just controls like absolute garbage. Moving and shooting is not very fun and the driving is horrendous. Just go play GTA 2 for something better. Such a shame, I hope they can rework it in the future and then I'd return.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yo, Devs! Game is pretty cool, kinda raw but it is to be expected at this point. But there are 3 big problems i like to adress: 1) Think about adding the option for text scrolling speed. There is often so much going on that before i park or whack someone attacking me while taking a call, the text is already gone. Or add a button for reading previous text boxes, like in GTA2 2) The gang ,,arrows" pointing to the phones. Especially in starting ,,tutorial" are very confusing. In GTA 2 the arrows…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Definitely hits the spot when brings nostalgia of the first GTA games! It is like GTA on steroids, with way more features. :steamthumbsup: Yes, game is early access, got some performance issues, but I dont believe devs would leave them be for long so, from my point of view - not an issue at all. Did not play for v long yet but left positive impact. Looking forward to sink in quite a few hours and check out the next maps and missions! P.S. Love the radios of the game :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Broken. Abandoned. Stupid.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →just nope. sucked in all the ways and i can't imagine them being able to fix it during early access. just play gta2 instead and imagine some cyberpunk scenario.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I won a key for this game in a giveaway on Twitch (thanks Bloodyfaster!) and after putting a few hours into it I can easily recommend it... if you liked GTA 2. Nostalgia alone isn't going to be enough to carry you through this game though. Just like games of the GTA 2 era the difficulty is a bit unrelenting and the learning curve is steep. The difficulty is also (somewhat) artificially increased by making you travel to a safehouse to save, which can only be done when not on a contract, but…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unfinished, Abandonware.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you're looking for a cyberpunk'd Grand Theft Auto / GTA2 clone, look no further. Finally, top-down crime and auto-racing in a seedy, gang-ridden city has made the leap to sweet HD graphics. The Devs were definitely inspired by GTA2, and boy, they assembled an outstanding "adaptation". But there's also downsides: the keyboard controls are a bit spongy, especially when steering a vehicle. If you expect the direct GTA2 steering experience, brace for some frustration. The "load / start a new…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Controls are awful! Don't waste your time and just play GTA2 or Chinatown Wars instead.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's too early to write a review, I only have like 10 minutes in the game but damn.... If you loved GTA 1 and 2 then this nails it. The gameplay is good, the gfx rock........etc It has a lot of promise so far, so no regrets from me.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i reeally wanted for this to be good, but its badly optimized, the character art collides with the rest of the game, they are also badly written and NEVER stop talking with hundreds of text boxes. the 3d world looks great but it feels like its either mining bitcoin or every mesh has 9999 polygons... if you made the same game but without focusing so much on the stuff that no one cares about then itd be golden.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It looks like the game (actually) hasn't left the early access yet. Almost every component works not as expected: keyboard controls scheme is unintuitive, fps drops occur regularly (I have RTX 3070 laptop), campaign characters/employers talk a lot, but it is hard to catch what they need from you, it is really hard to understand if jump to the particular building/stairway is possible or not, the same for jumping down: only god knows — if it is going to hurt (or kill) you or not, lots of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cyberpunk GTA 2. I could forgive the bugs and annoyances here and there, but I can't forgive one thing: the driving is bad. Like, really bad. Here's a list of everything that came to mind, I could be forgetting some things too: (I will preface this by saying I used a controller the entire time I played, and some of these issues may not happen on kb+m.... like the acceleration when you exit a vehicle or firing your gun inside the car and hitting your own car every time you enter and hold down…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Promising But Needs Driving Fixes... I spent 2 hours diving into Glitchpunk, and overall, it's a good experience. The game looks fantastic, reminiscent of GTA 2 but with significant improvements. However, the driving mechanics need serious attention. Maneuvering feels awkward, often leading to frustrating situations like getting stuck in corners. Despite this, the missions are engaging, packed with action. I plan to revisit the game in the future, hoping the developers will have addressed…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unfortunately I still can't recommend this game in the current state it is in. Driving is tragic, in my opinion there is no way to even learn it. Making a 90 degree turn in a narrow space is almost impossible without bumping into 50 things because of all the floating to the sides, also there is no way to do that without reversing once or twice first. New Balta - you start with 4 medkits, but the first contract requires you to buy one as part of the quest - why? So you end up without any free…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Awesome. Take GTA2. Feed it all kinds of drugs and some neons. But most importantly. Buy the game. On a more serious note. We all love GTA 2 for this one reason propably. Unique setting. A setting thats not really that much of a cyberpunk. There is very little of noir in both GTA 2 and Glitchpunk. But there is enough psychosis. Madness. Insanity is what sells this game and what was so charming in GTA 2 back in the days. Glitchpunk is psychotic and insane. I thought i hate its radio loops…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I absolutely love it, can't wait for future updates, love the ambient of the game, soundtrack of the game is absolutely brilliant. I'm a really bad driver but I managed to stay on the road :D I've played GTA from the very beginnings, and this game brings back the memories. So happy that creators put their time and effort to make this game!
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