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Hard Reset Redux
Developer Flying Wild Hog
Hard Reset Redux is an action-packed and hardcore single-player shooter which embraces the best qualities that the genre has it offer. It includes over-the-top destruction, loads of enemies, great weapon variety, a challenging campaign and a beautifully realized cyberpunk setting. From the Steam store page
181 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Oct 3, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
72
Fresh
127 positive · 49 negative
95% range 65–78%
| Source | + | − | = |
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| Steam reviews | 127 | 49 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
5 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
1,934 of 2,396 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 181 · most liked firstAt first sight Hard Reset Redux (Redux, since it's a somewhat improved version of the [url=store.steampowered.com/app/98400/Hard_Reset_Extended_Edition/]original released in 2011) appears to be an ideal first-person shooter: set in a rainy, neon-lit textbook cyberpunk metropolis we have to fight off murderous robots who have taken over the streets. Unfortunately, as we quite soon find it out, the streets are literally empty, or rather devoid of any life - and no, not because the robots killed…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hard Reset Redux is incredibly mediocre. The gunplay feels super boring—you're basically just unloading tons of ammo into wave after wave of robot enemies, and they don't even react until they eventually explode. It's not satisfying at all. The levels are also pretty bland, with a dark urban cyberpunk vibe that doesn't really change much each level. Everything looks the same because of the reused assets, and there's no real sense of place in the city. If you're after a solid FPS with fun…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a hidden gem. Check it out if you like fast paced FPS shooters
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hard Reset commits the FPS cardinal sin of making enemies have more health at higher difficulty levels, instead of adjusting their spawns or AI. Enemies become RIDICULOUSLY bullet spongy at higher difficulties, which coupled with the fact that the majority of them don't stagger and don't show any visual indication of damage, quickly makes every encounter feel like a chore. Level design actually starts off strong, visuals and gameplay wise, but gradually falls off, with the latter part of the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What a pleasant surprise, Doom meets Cyberpunk, works like charm on the deck with 10w tdp , nice graphics, nice mecanics, ai never played the original, now I got this on a super cheap deal on fanatical , worth every penny
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unfortunately Hard Reset is a middling first-person shooter that has a pretty fun first half before it turns into a repetitive slog. If I wasn't obsessed with at least finishing every game in my library I would've dropped the game after the Atlas fight. The enemy variety is low, and the main gameplay loop is clearing a room of increasingly more enemies before pressing a button and walking 30ft to the next room where you shoot more bullet-spongey enemies. It gets old pretty quickly. This…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Overall, a pretty good package. To start, the game is a shooter with two weapon slots, an energy weapon and a ballistic weapon, these slots can be outfitted with different weapons (for a total of 12 options*) and changed on the fly which makes it easy to experiment and try to combo/alternate during fights. Albeit with a couple second delay in between switching no ability to select a weapon, instead having to roll through all of them until you get your choice, which is not that bad if you keep…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An action FPS that knows exactly what it is. Q: How do you crouch? A: You don't need to do that. Q: What about reloading? A: Yeah. You're not going to be doing that either. Q: What about stealth? A: LOL
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →High adrenaline cyber punk sci-fi shooter. The world reminds me of the Matrix movies. I bought this game for very cheap....I still can't figure out why was a game this good...so cheap. It's not very long....but thankfully it has a good story and action. The redux version has an upgraded visuals and it sure shows. I recommend it very much. The game was so cheap....that a cup of coffe costs twice as much. Crazy world we live in.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is great, with others accurately describing it as a cross between Doom and some sort of cyberpunk iteration. Although, not having cloud saving capabilities is really annoying considering I use both a PC and a Steam Deck. I have to choose....not cool man.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played a little of this a few years ago and felt it was, meh. I read an article the other day that over hyped this game. "It's the Doom you never heard of." After a few hours, It's still, meh. I don't know why I am doing all of this. At least in Doom, you have the soundtrack. This is just aimless without any hero music. To clarify, there is music every now and then, but it sucks. You can't crouch, but there are all these missing sections of fence at crouch level. I took it as there was a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Heavy extermination of robots and cyborg scum. Probably one of the best in this category. Takes some inspiration from retro FPS games. Overall decent mayhem! Upgradable weapons, quite challenging on hard difficulty. Would play again.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the third game I’ve played from that developer (the first ones being Evil West and Shadow Warrior), and it's probably the most fun one overall. Mostly because this one doesn’t overstay its welcome to the absolute breaking point. It just starts, shows us some gorgeous cyberpunk levels, allows us to murder some robots for a while, and then promptly ends. It is absolutely nothing special: the combat loop is just a little more involved than something like Serious Sam, the story feels like…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a shame that I have to give this game a negative review, even though it can be an average/decent time on normal difficulty there's a lot of things holding it back from being viscerally satisfying as a shooter, I'm convinced the devs didn't even playtest the harder difficulties because everything is so impossibly bullet spongey it saps any fun that can be had out of the experience. Platforming and jumping is weird and floaty and doesn't feel good, many times leading to pitfalls and instant…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played the game for about an hour. Ran great on Linux. Gameplay and enemies were pretty boring. I've encountered only 2-3 kinds of them. Weapons and upgrades seem fine, but my interest of the game vanished after the first hour due to the repetitive and boring gameplay. A pity, because the cyberpunk atmosphere is well done.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a gem. Doom + cyberpunk + robots Good combination!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was gifted this game from a friend. Didn't expect much, and as you can see it has hit my "I'm bored and wanna just play a Single Payer game" rotation. If I knew it was this fun I would have just bough it myself. Truly a hidden gem.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hard Reset Redux is a "remaster" of Hard Reset Extended Edition. While it improves on certain things, changes are either minimal, nonsensical and implementation of new features is questionable at best. Let me expain: New features: dash move, new enemies and a new weapon. Dash move is great, makes traversing the map and dodging attacks much easier. It also completely breaks the game. It's supposed to use stamina, but it's either bugged or broken and it actually doesn't, no matter how many times…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wish this game would have branched off into a whole franchise with a multiplayer component. Over the top destruction, awesome weapon system, just an overall fun experience. The story is a little difficult to follow and not that interesting, but the gameplay makes up for it tenfold. Recommended for fans of Quake, Doom, and Serious Sam.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Old school run n gun
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Still to core, really good game. Hopeful Hard Reset 2?
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Doom Eternal's mentally handicapped cousin. Still fun in its own right, just don't expect perfection.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →at first i thought kinda cool but it gets boring really quick and i played it for longer than i should've. You fight through endless hords of robots with mildly interesting weapons. The story is boring and the main characters voice acting sucks. I ended up dashing with the speed of light through the maps,hacking everything down with the lasersword, while pressing green button after green button after green button. This is the game in a nutshell: 1. go to position x 2.fight monsters to make…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hard Reset Redux had a lot of potential, but it overstays its welcome half way through. About three hours in, it turns into a serious slog. The game isn't horrible, but it relies on a lot of crappy ideas that were already past their prime and not fun in 2011. The only thing it has to challenge you is cliched boss battles where you circle strafe in an arena for seven minutes hitting glowing spots and tons of endlessly respawning trash mobs. Riveting stuff. At a certain point the upgrade system…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →great on steam deck
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hard Reset Redux needs a hard shutdown. Story If there IS a story here, it's utterly unfinished and lost in translation. Set in the year 2436, players take on the role of a man named Fletcher who describes himself as a soldier for the unironically named "Corporation" who defend a city called Bezoar from a horde of robots that threaten it. That's the most concrete information you'll get for the rest of the game. It'll spout several unexplained terms like "exterior AI" and allude to all sorts…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very fun shooter with a short lenght but very replayable, the improvements and changes from the original to Redux make the experience a lot less frustrating and feel like a fair challenge. I beat the game in hard, insane and heroic mode and I thought I was going to struggle a lot more. The cyberpunk setting is fantastic and the encounters feel chaotic and fun. Quick switching weapons is very important, trying to keep them stunned as long as possible helps a lot to deal with the biggest threats.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Trash game. Good trash but trash nonetheless. 5/10. -Bugs/Performance: This culminates all the problems with this game. There are just so many janky movements, AI getting stuck in debris, Doors being locked which requires reload save, Missiles disappearing. It is just a mess of design. I did not find many bugs but when I did, they were absolutely infuriating. Most fixes to my problems was reload save which made me be an expert at pressing F5. You then have very awkward movement that crashing…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The immersion failed me, the story felt disconnected from the game as if it's from different game. But the gameplay is alright I kinda able to follow along & not let it bother me, since it's linear anyway. Get it on sale & you'll get nothing to complain.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Playability / Enjoyability 8/10 Graphics / Sound 8/10 Wokeness / ESG Score 0/10 Story / Writing 3/10 Replayability 4/10 I was expecting very little from this game having bought it on sale for under £1 and not having heard of it before. However I really enjoyed it. The setting is the best realisation of a "Blade Runner" type city I have played. The action is plentiful, the enemy robots, though not too varied, are challenging, and the graphics and sound very good. Story not great and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →very fun, looks gorgeous for an older game, surprising combat depth and variety once you unlock the full kit. highly recommend for linear old school single player FPS fans
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you're a fan of Serious Sam and Doom then you'll love this robotic rampage!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very fun game 10/10 7hours was fun
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very good game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly, not that great. Plus it is ridiculously short. Thought I was getting to the halfway point of the story, only to see the credits start rolling. I can only recommend it if you can get it dirt cheap and have four to five hours to kill.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While not absolutely bad, but pretty dull. Shooting enemies is just sparkles glittering on them until they explode, without any oomph on it. Protagonist's attitude was very cliche "Tough Guy", and listening him caused mainly serious second-hand embarrassment. As a shooter it's okay, so you could get it from huge sale.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Oldschool fun. Surprisingly good graphics, especially lighting. Weapons look quirky but are a lot of fun to use, especially energy weapons and grenade launcher. If you use the weapons for their intended situations you will always feel like a badass. Pros : + Great weapons + Cool unlock / progression system + Loads of easy to find secrets + Every stray from beaten path is rewarded + Good pacing with swarms of small enemies, big enemies and boss fights + Really good mood and original art Cons…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Y’know for a game I got for 2$, I’m quite enjoying Hard Reset Redux
unlabelledView post →I have no idea what is going on in the story (even though I beat it) but I lovvvvvve kill'n me some robots
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Absolute gem of a game, an oldschool FPS shooter with excellent graphics, fantastic animations, great weapons. True cyberpunk climate. Demanding enemies with decent AI. Much recommended!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This review is purely from a gameplay standpoint, as the story is the exact same in both games (and barely even exists to begin with). You don't even need to understand the story to have a good time anyway. I own both the original version of Hard Reset as well as Redux, and it might as well be considered two different games, at least in my experience. Playing through Redux with all it's enhancements is like being able to turn off your brain and have a good time shooting and cutting through…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a very poor product and no amount of cope will change that. First, ask yourself how it feels to shoot at ugly, blocky robots in an ugly, blocky landscape. I'll wait. If it sounds unappealing, I concur. If it sounds fun, don't lie to me. I'm not impressed. This isn't robot doom or the quake successor or any of the other excuses. Even if it were, so? Quake and Doom are old as sin as far as games go and game design has evolved for very good reasons. This game isn't suddenly good just…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Батя когда-то в детстве скачал - я играл
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →NO THINKING NO PUZZLES JUST SHOOTING I LOVE THIS GAME
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A good cult classic.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Serious Sam Goes Cyberpunk + graphics are nice + can run on a potato (my 1L mini pc ran 30 FPS @ 720p) ... but everything else is ... "meh" to "ugh" - graphics sometimes get in the way making it hard to see (volumetric smoke, bloom, etc) - the "gritty night city" dark color pallete has everything blending together - level design can leave you with "where do I go? what do I do?" moments - level design is so intricate it's easy to get hung-up on stuff while back-peddling in combat -…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hard Reset is a perfect 5/10 experience, originally releasing in 2011 in the modern day the Redux plays similar to Doom. This does try and mix up the formula introducing enemies that react to limb shots, a focus on environmental damage and a weapon system where your guns transform rather than having several different weapons with some really nice animations. However the charm eventually wears off with these enemies taking just 9 hours to beat it honestly felt twice as long as the enemies…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun ride. Really short. Didn't pay attention to the story. Gameplay made me eat the seat cushion on my couch from my anus. Get it on sale.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →nice awaeome same robo machime
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hard Reset Redux is a Redux of hard Reset, heh, guess you could really say it was "Hard Reset" because thats the title of the name and it is a Redux version of the previous game also called "Hard Reset", except this one is called "Hard Reset Redux. You play as Dunkey on his quest for alcoholism and it is a very good "Hard Reset Redux"-type of game I highly recommend it to all gamer
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hard Reset Redux, developed by Flying Wild Hog and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment, is a remastered edition of the 2011 cyberpunk-themed first-person shooter Hard Reset. Released in 2016, this redux version enhances the original with upgraded visuals, refined gameplay mechanics, and additional content, aiming to offer both newcomers and returning players a more polished and intense experience. It preserves the high-octane action and retro-shooter feel while modernizing the presentation…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty basic, formulaic, old school arcade shooter a la quake, unreal tournament, doom, etc. Cool (if somewhat one-note) environments, Interesting (if somewhat limited in scope) weapon system, nice (if somewhat repetitive and annoying) enemy designs. Gameplay can be fun in that each enemy type has a weapon-type that is better at taking care of them, so you're constantly switching up your gunplay style; only problem is that enemy varieties can only be so diverse, it starts to get annoying and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you have more than 1 screen I do NOT recommend it. The game will automatically utilize 2 full screens you have and if you only want to play with one, good luck because I've tried for 30-45 minutes not counting the countless times it started to go into its Not Responding phase but I can't change the resolution size and if I change it from windowed to windowed full-screen or full-screen it will only show the top 1/5th of the screen and that's it. Never got to play it which is extremely…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played and beat this game. Apparently. I have no memory of this game. Must've been decent if i finished it, i guess.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In my opinion it obviously show sign of its age despite it being remastered. Overall I liked it. The gameplay is doom-like with a good weapon variety and can be faily challenging if you crank up the difficulty.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good game but not for me
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't let the age of this game fool you, it's still a very fun sci-fi fps that holds up very well both graphics-wise and gameplay-wise. I'd rank it only a bit lower than Doom 2016 as my favorite single player fps.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Negatives: - Not much in the way of real sex appeal. - No character customisation, no ability to play a female character. You play as John Redux. - You mostly be shooting robots. The problem with this is that shooting robots isn't very satisfying. It means there's no blood, there's no gore, & there's no gibs. Positives: - Low price, especially if you grab it on a deep sale. - Characters aren't deliberately ugly. - A remaster that doesn't censor anything (but there wasn't really that much…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yeah this is a very neat shooter, honestly. One of these days I'd like to revisit it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Best things about it: levels have a lot of stuff to blow up (and to blow enemies up with), the weapon mechanics are interesting (you have two main weapons, and what would be a weapon in a regular shooter are just "mods" for them), the graphics look nice (to my liking) and it runs good (duh, it's 2024) Not so good things about it: story is incomprehensible and practically non-existent (who cares), kind of repetitive (although I'd say it ends almost at the perfect moment to not overstay its…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →
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