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Game2019
LEFT ALIVE™
Developer Square Enix
Left Alive is a 2019 action-adventure stealth game developed by Ilinx and published by Square Enix. It was released in February and March 2019 for the PlayStation 4 and Windows platforms. It was announced at a press conference by Sony Interactive Entertainment before the 2017 Tokyo Game Show. Set in the universe of the Front Mission series of video games, the story follows several individuals trying to survive… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
193 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Sep 29, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
45
Mixed
85 positive · 104 negative
95% range 38–52%
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| Steam reviews | 85 | 104 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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4 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mostly Negative
292 of 920 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 193 · most liked firstI think I might love this game. Only buy it on big sale though. Yes, it is not good. It is the very definition of Jank. But the story was pretty good, one of the antagonists goes on about American Baseball, and once you figure out to play Left Alive like Left Alive and not like Metal Gear Solid, it starts to get fun. Better the deeper you get. Though it never stops feeling rushed. I spent a lot of my play time on my first run trying to figure out what the devs wanted this to be. Metal Gear?…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I read the reviews and said "but it looks so cool", and bought it anyway, don't be me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I originally got Left Alive in the hopes that it would make amicable fodder for a bad game review. I had been told, by a great many people, and very reliably, that the game was awful, but as someone who tolerated Front Mission Evolved, I figured that worst case scenario, it would give me ample content for the review, and best case scenario, it would be mediocre. In truth, what I got was neither - while it's got a number of examples of frustrating design, Left Alive wound up surprising me by…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I disagree with most of the hate on this game. I do agree with its poor optimisation, but it somehow runs well enough for me and my old PC. I played through on the normal difficulty setting. There are two easier modes and two harder modes. This is not a hardcore stealth game. Do not play it like one. It's not an ordinary third-person shooter either. It's somewhere in between - the game does want you to fight, but to fight smart. Stealth is quite forgiving in this game and it's easy to learn…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its like playing a sub-par metal gear clone, but it was made by a team consisting of sales associates and algorithms, not Kojima. Gameplay (Minor spoilers): -Rough/unpolished stealth gameplay with no melee stealth kills. "lure into trap" or "nade/execute" being the stealth kill options. -If you get seen you're presented with a fight/flight scenario with hiding locations the terrible enemy AI camps or cover based shooting. -You have a robot "AI" Navi that says "Enemy approaching" every 10…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →dont buy, abandoned by SE, buy something else. i fervently hate playing as the chick she is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ok this is not a great game but it's not completely terrible either IMO. However i cannot in good conscience recommend buying this game at full price. I'd say only buy it if your a Front Mission fan and also a fan of the Yoji Shinkawa and Takayuki Yanase characters/mechs design. Personally i like the game art direction and world settings. You may enjoy it a little bit more if you like stealth/action games like Metal Gear. Just know that it's really janky, poorly optimized and that the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game makes me sad. I purchased the collectors edition on PS4 and couldnt play it then. Even buying it for 5 dollars 4 years later isnt good enough. Don't be fooled by the amazing art direction and military look. I love a good janky game every now and then, but this is on another level.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's glorious, every part is glorious jank as the reviews promised. I've been dreaming of this game, waiting for it to go on sale and they've knocked it down to what it should probably be selling for normal. It's all style over substance in the best possible way, the controls are awful and gimp you but it's balanced by the hilarious AI, you know how they used to talk about stealth game villains having gold fish memories? You can shoot a solider in the head, hide behind some playground equipment…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Every review is right. Janky unoptimized mess of a game. You can get some enjoyment out if it but you are better off playing something else.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I enjoyed my time with Left Alive even with its issues but am no longer able to play. Unfortunately the game no longer renders the UI in the main menu nor does it render in the inventory system. After numerous troubleshooting steps, I reached out to Square Enix and they gave me the following response: Thank you for contacting Square Enix Customer Support. I hope all is well with you! We appreciate you reaching us out and we definitely would love to clarify regarding the technical issue you're…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a shame how badly optimized this game is. Therefore I'm honoured to add one more negative review
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positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Left Alive, developed and published by Square Enix, is a game that reaches for high ambition but ultimately struggles under the weight of its own vision. Set in the war-torn city of Novo Slava in the year 2127, the game places players in the role of three different protagonists, each caught in a brutal and chaotic invasion. Drawing heavily from the world of Front Mission, Left Alive attempts to blend survival, stealth, and third-person shooting with mech combat in a dystopian science fiction…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Released, had one update that didn't fix anything then was abandoned. Lots of bugs, gameplay is horrible, and will most likely crash.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Funny...For a long time I didn't buy this game (even if I was curious about it) because of the very low rating... But there is so much hate against this game lately that I decided to take the summer sales opportunity to test it... And guess what ?...it's not so bad.... Well I suffered a lot during the first chapter...so I lowered the difficulty to "light"...Still difficult for me but doable And in fact I love the game :)...it's kind of old school regarding the gameplay but I like the fact you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I doubt the creators have experienced their own work! This game has a lot of problems and can be said to be incomplete! The game is not just about graphics.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Garbage Alert. Game is not optimized. It runs 5fps on lowest setting on my 4070. Disappointed but not surprised.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I thought this game couldn't be that bad. I saw the Rerez video and thought surely it couldn't be THAT bad....but I was wrong. It IS that bad. You get promised a game about the human side of war and all you get is middling gameplay and some of the worst anime tropes in a long while - Mikhail is a completely and utterly useless character and that bozo with his baseball analogy had the worst case of anime villain-itis I've seen in a LONG while; I mean, probably everyone at this point has noticed…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A Game I would suggest at least trying. I see no reason why this game is in the '' Very Negative '' category. Sure, the game does feel a bit outdated graphic wise, and has problems (mostly AI) But its a great mix of games, like playing Metal gear Solid/Resident Evil remakes system and randomly adding Mecha, and who dosnt like Mecha! + The game is a 20h+ game if ya want to be a lootgoblin xD And its almost always 90% Discounted! Did finish the game once and there are still stuff on NG+ , But…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is easily one of the games I have ever played. Edit: I just finished streaming this and I have to say that this is in my top 5 worst games. It might even be number 1. Do not buy this. I got it for £3 and I still feel ripped off. It is a miserable pile of ♥♥♥♥. Charging £45 for this is genuinely insane. You'd be better off buying literally anything else. It's not even worth a proper review. Whoever says this is a good game is mentally ill.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Broken menus and UI that can stop a layman from ever beating chapter 1 (or even starting the game). Terrible inventory system that leaves you unable to access most of your items at will. Game "encourages" exploration yet has a bunch of progression traps that stop you from being able to access items. FPS is terrible. Same exact fps on full low settings and full ultra. Some areas just run terribly with no good reason. The lipsync is virtually nonexistent in some places. It forces you to swap…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can understand why this game has mostly negative reviews. It is a low-budget title that doesn't fit neatly into any particular game genre. You might say it has an "identity crisis," but I would argue that Left Alive knows exactly what its identity is and it fairly succeeds at achieving it. Is it a stealth game like Metal Gear? Is it a mech game like Front Mission Evolved or Armored Core? Is it a third person shooter? Is it a survival/crafting game? Games like this that don't fit neatly into…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Did I play this game for over 50 hours, playing through the game 4 times and getting all the achievements? Yes. Do I recommend this game to other people? No. Lol. Technically, the game is a mess. Huge frame drops when using the sniper rifle, desktop mouse icon will flicker onto the screen whenever you turn, had the game crash on me 6-8 times. Dialogue choices can be vague and, in one example, I got locked out of later content, despite the NPC giving the same reply, so no indication my…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →just play metal gear
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Left Alive is a stealth game set in the "Front Mission" universe. This might already sound weird for someone familiar with the series, as that series was so far dominated by mech combat games. How did transformation go to a stealth game, one might ask? "Not well" to put it mildly. OK, so there are some good aspects to that game - cutscenes, in general, are well-realized, with solid animations (although direction at times leaves much to be desired). The game looks pretty good in general and the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't get the hate. I mean i got this for like 3 dollars and I'm actually enjoying the game. I mean maybe its the price or because I'm not a Front Mission or MGS fan specifically but I kinda like this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Note for AMD users, you need to download a fix. Ive been able to fix the UI flickering by using DXVK, importing the d3d11.dll and dxgi.dll into the .exe folder. This is apparently due to AMD drivers breaking this game specifically. So be noted of that if you use an AMD GPU Ive played and completed this game exactly once, here are my thoughts. I dont understand the difficulty that people are complaining about, its perfectly fine. You have to think about encounters and use your tools to your…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I understand how the difficulty of this game turns people off but if you set it to "Casual" difficulty, it gets a lot easier and you can experience what is a great game in my opinion. I don't think it's worth a full $59.99 anymore (maybe for the first 6 months) but it's definitely worth every bit of it's regular sale price ($5.99). It's just one of many games that gets a bad rap that's undeserved. Are there things that could use fixing? Definitely. But is it a bad game? Not at all. I think…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's terrible, the problem is not that the game is a poorly implemented copy of Metal Gear and that its characters are quasi-clones of MGS1, but that the whole thing is so poorly implemented that it's an insult. The whole game is years behind the times, dynamics, mobility, graphics and a poorly told and bland story. On top of that the optimization is bad.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A pretty decent tactical stealth shooter, with mech battles sprinkled in. I had quite some fun with it. That said, it probably isn't worth the full price tag. Buy it on sale. EDIT: BTW the World of Tanks stuff is a DLC, if you are annoyed by it you can disable it by right click the game in the steam client -> properties -> DLC -> deselect the world of tank collab dlc
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You'd think a game pitched as Dynamic story based on your actions and choices, stealth based third person cover shooter with mech on mech and mech on human combat would be an incredible game wouldn't you? They crammed Alpha Protocol, Metal Gear Solid & Armoured Core into a single game but didn't polish each part enough. Do yourself a favour and remove both Crossover DLCs. Goto "Manage DLC" and Untick both of them. The game has awful controls, 60 FPS cap, texture pop in on ultra, random frame…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →wildly misunderstood and harshly judged by people who haven't played enough to have an opinion (seriously, factor out reviews with 2> hours of playtime and the consensus goes from very negative to mixed.) left alive is not a stealth game. and it's not a metal gear spinoff either. go in with the expectation that you'll be running from enemy fire and focusing more on stun-and-run tactics than third person shooting or sneaking and you may be pleasantly surprised. play on hopeless to get the right…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'ma be real, I liked the game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I LOVE FRONT MISSION, But! This Game is just so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bad. Mouse Screen Bugs, Janky controls, bad voice overs, bad lines, to much to bother suffer through.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As an avid fan of both the Front Mission and Armored Core franchises, I was convinced I could find a redeeming quality about this failed game. There aren't any. It's a buggy, un-optimised mess of a game and it's sitting at negative reviews for a very good reason. Not even worth it for a joke on sale.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →game is still bugged, i generally have gui problems that make certain menus not work, making the game unplayable at higher difficulties, the most help square gave was, upgrade your system, reinstall, have you tried turning your computer off and on, regards square. if a 7900 xt cant get this garbage to run idk what will
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →only weak people dont like this
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm so glad I purchased this game on another site for $4 and didn't spend $60 on Steam. Completely unplayable on a high end system (7800X3D / 7900XTX). Stutters, frame drops and most maddening, hard lock freezes that force a system reboot.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ok so people already talked about the game. Still, there's some masoschists like me or hardcore fans of the Front Mission saga who still want to have a bad time. Well you can't. On my old rig, the game was poorly optimised so I waited for a new one. Now, Win 11 amd Amd graphics seems to bother the game enough to screw UI so you can't even pass the tutorial. And what was the Square Enix support answer ? "ThiS gAme iS coMpaTibLe wiTh Win 10 oNly" Seriously, what the hell. The freakin game is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got this Game for $4.. still feels like i paid a couple of bucks more..
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →a very slavic metal gear experience
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Thank god I never have to hear the phrase "Caution, the enemy is approaching" again.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good things: cool box art Bad things: AI sucks Stealth Sucks Combat Sucks Everything sucks Conclusion: It feels like an Unreal Engine asset flip that had a big budget.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well, there are several almost negative games on steam, lots of them might be fun anyway. Not so this. Perfomance is meh, ammo is rare, and even when you run out of ammo and infight an enamy you cannot pick up his weapon after you have beaten him. So it indeed is a must have game...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Avoid at all costs. Really as bad as everyone says. Aiming is useless, ammo is scarce so even in casual you're forced into boring stealth, performance is trash even if your PC is actually from 2027 like the game's story, and even if it did run well all you'd get are mediocre visuals. This could have been great, but that's not reality.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really enjoyed this game. I played through the whole game on Casual difficulty and it was pretty fun. On Casual, stealth is optional, and you can gun through every situation. The enemy AI is hilarious. They RUN AWAY FROM YOU! Their behavior is funnier than guys in Tenchu Z. I like the characters, story, mecha, and the many documents that give me world info. The game isn't perfect however. -There should have been at least twice as much mech combat. -The enemy has SILENT HELICOPTERS.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game runs like absolute garbage. I'm running a 5700 XT and i7 11700F. Barely getting 30 FPS. BARELY. That's terrible in this day and age even when I attempted to run it even on all low. The menu is 30 FPS, gameplay drops to 30 I haven't seen a single 60 FPS in this game at all and I'm not entirely sure why. Maybe I'll give it another chance but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ this is so bad to play it has everything that makes it a unique game but controls are janky. Honestly if they added a few additional controls…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game...is bad... and it doesn't even have the decency to be bad in a funny way
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Left Alive has its flaws, but I'm going to give it a recommended. If you enjoy the world of Front Mission and are not locked into its turn based tactics gameplay, I think you can enjoy this game. The atmosphere is terrific (assuming you turn off the ridiculous World of Tanks DLC ads). Wanzers feel quite imposing when on foot, which you don't get in the mainline games. After reading about the difficulty I decided to play on an easier setting and it felt a bit too easy, but I could easily…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A solid 7/10 Has it cons, has it pros, but if you don't expect miracles from this game you can enjoy quite nice story and setting with 3 different characters, meaningful (but not great and sometimes a bit unclear) choices and interesting, but uneven playstyle. If you are looking for a AA class, stealth survival game in alternative near future setting AND you are "immune" to somewhat big amount of WOT posters (belive me, totally ignorable) AND if you get some nice deal for it on sale I can…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cannot Recommend this one, UI and menus being busted off of rip on the PC port. I did end up getting the PS4 port because I did have fun with the game, it's honestly too bad. I wish it worked for PC properly but yeah the Mostly Negative reviews at this time are well earned.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I dont understant all the hate this game is getting. Its fun. The main problem I have with it are the side missions. You choose one wrong dialog option and you failed the whole quest. Hope you saved! Or enjoy replaying the whole chapter until you simply give up... Nonetheless I enjoyed myself. BUT! Not worth 60 bucks. Get it on sale. TL;DR It can be fun. But it isnt for impatient ppl.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Left alive is a mixed experience for me. On the one hand I can forgive a lot of this games short comings because I didn’t walk into it with the expectation that it was a metal gear clone. Which is fair because square really wanted this to look a lot like TPP. Even going as far as to hire the character designer from kojima productions! Left alive plays more like an old school resident evil game. It sort of reminds me of RE2 remake in a way just less polished. That brings me to the biggest gripe…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Why Left Alive is awsome LEFT ALIVE is a third person stealth action shooter RPG from Sqare Enix. It combines tactical stealth and groundbreaking shooter mechanics in a futuristic Warzone of the popular Front Mission universe. Pro: Third person shooter perfection: While a lot of modern shooters struggle with presenting a innovative and varied gunplay, Left Alive delivers at this point. You can feel the weight of the weapons when firing and each gun demands an uniqe playstile.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Actually it's not a bad game, It's just not worth this price If this was an Indie Metal Gear then it would've been something better. Final Price: 5 USD.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have only played a little so far. Here are my first impressions on this. 1. If you are a console player then you can play this. The game was made for PS4 and by the behavior of the code it was simply imported to PC with no optimization for the PC system. Being that Steam accounts are widely used for PC playing this game is not a wise choice. 2. It is similar to splinter cell where diversions and sneaks have to be implemented in order to succeed. This is not Gears of War or Mass Effect…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Might be the best game ive ever played well worth the 9 bucks i spent :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →metal gear wannabe but its ok
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I honestly tried. I wanted to like this, especially having a soft spot for janky games that tried to make it, but never did, damn it. I love Shinkawa's art, I love Front Mission, I love the aesthetics and the general idea behind 'humanizing' the conflict by playing as people instead of wanzers. However it seems that the game just doesn't want me to engage, to stealth, to plan or just plainly be there. So with a clean conscience I quit, knowing that even if it's part of Front Mission world,…
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