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Probably Archery
Developer South East Games
Manipulate your wrists, elbows and shoulders to get the arrow to the bow, draw it, aim and fire!Probably Archery gives the player more control over the minutia of their joint movements with tons of crazy scenarios to conquer, multiplayer battles to fight and brutal target challenges to dominate. From the Steam store page
191 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest Aug 29, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
39
Rotten
75 positive · 116 negative
95% range 33–46%
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Steam's own rating
Mixed
182 of 399 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
A frustrating archery game with intentionally awkward controls, more annoying than fun.
Many players compare the controls to Surgeon Simulator or QWOP, describing them as cumbersome and frustrating. The difficulty in nocking arrows and aiming leads to repeated failure, with one player noting they spent almost two hours on target practice. [5][10][13][22]
Some find the game funny and rewarding once mastered, praising its simulation of archery mechanics. However, most criticise the lack of fun and repetitive gameplay, with one reviewer stating the key element of fun is missing. [7][12][16][30]
Praised humorous chaos · realistic simulation concept
Criticised frustrating controls · lack of fun · repetitive gameplay
Summary drafted by an AI model from the 36 reactions it cites ([n] links open each post), then checked by code: every paragraph cites real posts and every quote is verbatim. Written Oct 8, 2026. Method
Reactions
60 of 191 · most liked firstyeah its a game about achery and doesnt look bad, but sadly it almost got the same "funny" controls as surgeon simulator. for my taste its just dumb to sell something like that and im not even sure why i already own it. well, probably it has been in some random indie bundle, where it belongs. i bet it would be fun with normal controls, but like this? no, thanks. game level: idle cards, uninstall and forget.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game- can make you beat the cr*p out of your computer. it's an awkward FPS. And if you think the game is easy, well, it isn't. You have to manipulate you wrists, shoulders and elbows (and shoot, obviously). Although the game becomes easier once the commands are mastered and lacks replay value, Probably Archery is effective in achieving its goal: applying a cumbersome control scheme to a skill-based shooter. PA features a lot variety of gamemodes (including shooting a horde of muscular…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Probably Archery is just that, a game about archery. It seems like it's some sort of simulation, but I'm not quite sure. The controls take some getting used to, and hitting targets takes a lot of practice. The key element, fun, is missing here. There's no fun to be had, and it's all thanks to the controls. The controls are so awkward and unnatural that it takes longer to hit a target than it should. The graphics look fine for an archery game but they won't blow anyone away. I personally…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game's control is quite hard to play at first. But once you get used to it, tooking me about 1 hour, then it's very fun to play.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pro: Single, multi & Co-Op play Steam cards & achieves VR support Lowish minimum system specs Good concept Con: X-platform (so it's buggy on multiple OSs) Limited actual gameplay $5.49 for a proof of concept level game 11/10 frustration factor Overall: I really want to like this game. The problem is I don't. It's not much of a game. What gameplay there is is just an exercise in frustration. I can't get far enough to find out if there is actual fun in this game, but the first part sucks so…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Probably Archery could probably try a little harder in the controls department. Some of the menus such as after a match such as Berserker cant be navigated with the controller. Using a mouse is no big deal since their just menus not gameplay parts. Playing the game is very complicated, to fire an arrow you need to adjust your two arms, each arm has three joints the, wrist, elbow, and shoulder. Once you get them aligned you can fire, the big down side is once you draw a new arrow for some…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tried to shoot a target. Shot through the air instead. Tried to nock my arrow..the arrow ended up on the wrong side of the bow (making aiming impossible). Tried to shoot an apple off a guys head while he was sucking down liquid bravery....I killed he and his cronies...never quite killed the apple. Tried to eliminate a flying egg infestation....knocked over a table, destroyed a bunch of china, got three of those bastards! I then got hacked up by a warrior before I could nock an arrow. Hence the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Hospital Park Trespasser: Surgeon Became Archer Edition" Concept is good but controls are awful. Unnecessarily hard and trying over and over to nock the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ arrow and mostly can't shoot things is ruining the game. They have to change the both-hands-elbow-shoulder-controls to something else. Otherwise this is literally bull♥♥♥♥. In the real life, this is easier than this. Because you don't need to think about what key to press to use your respective muscles. I don't expect them to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Probably not the best choice...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You can kill zombies while playing soccer in a game about archery.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I hate this game so much and ive only played it for 7 minutes.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So, what exactly is this game about? I'm not sure, but it's probably archery.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →MY GOD THIS GAME! It took me almost two freaking hours to complete target practice, eight simple still targets. I can't even think about ADVANCED targets where they actually move around. The controls are god awful, half the time you're struggling to nock the friggin arrow because even though my hand is right on the string it says my arrow is too far to nock, because apparently your balloon head can't send the appropriate brain signals to your sack of potato body to complete a simple task! Then…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Probably a huge waste of your time. Controls are like Surgeon Simulator, but you can only manipulate one joint at a time.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm sad other reviewers don't recommend it due its difficulty. If you buy an archery game and you mean only to shoot arrows like you do in Skyrim, TF2, etc, then archery isn't for you, don't buy it. This is an archery game where you take control of every single move you make: Left upper arm Left forearm Left fist Right upper arm Right forearm Right fist You take an arrow, put it on the bow, aim and shoot, simple as that but it isn't simple. It's like Surgeon Simulator, I'm a bread, QWOP,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Actually this is my first "Archery" game... and if everygame is like this - it was my last.... it has a HORRIBLE handling! At first u already need 10 min to put the damn arrow on ur bow... then the horrible handling to manage ur 2 hands... - shoulder, elbow, hand - still pressing space for holding ur arrow... so maybe after 20 min u managed that ur arrow/bow looks halfway in the target direction... only to fdind out ur horrible wrong... and again the game with hand-elbow.shoulder-2seperate…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →CAN HAVE POPCORN HEAD WITH ROBOT ARMS MORE ARROWS DROPPED THAN SHOT 11/10 WILL PROBABLY ARCHERY AGAIN
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I understand that the controls are intentionally difficult as a gameplay mechanic. That doesn't mean that is fun. I would not suggest anyone play this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Like Surgeon Simulator.... or QWOP... or Mount Your Friends... Or I am Bread... Or Goat Simulator... or any other f**king you-tube fodder game out there.... but with archery. Don't buy it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A game with a steep learning curve, except the more you learn the more stupid you feel. I don't like it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →♥♥♥♥ this game 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The most realistic simulator of the Apple-Head Wars to date.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →At time of writing, I am going to not recomend this game. Probably Archery is, a good idea with a flawed exacution. It is trying to be in the same vein as Surgon Simulator, or QWOP, or Ampu-tea, where the idea is simplistic and the controls want to make you break your keyboard over your knee. However in exacution, the design is horriable, complicated and far to frustraiting to be enjoyable. You control three diffrent aspects of the arm, shoulder, elbow then wrist for aiming. You have to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →<h1>Absolutely Terrible</h1> This is not a good game at all. I honestly don't understand why developers would waste theirs and everybody else's time with things like this. It basically has the same cumbersome controls as Surgeon Simulator but lacks any funny consequences. So instead of accidentally cutting someone's spleen open, you (get ready for the excitement) miss a target. Wow. The fun to be had... Overall, I got 3 minutes of gameplay out of it before it was boring. Actually I'm lying,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →qwop for archery, horrible, but hilarious
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DO NOT BUY THIS GAME - CONTROLS DO NOT WORK AT ALL.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's more annoying than fun, after you try out every game mode (which like 1 minute for each one?) there is nothing more. Probably Archer is like a very decent flash game that will make you bored after few minutes, so don't waste your money on this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Literally QWOP archery. There's no 'trick' to it though. it requires good 'depth perception' in a flat 3d environment and it takes a lot of time to get used to and learn how to play. I don't recommend it unless you want a difficult to learn but interesting physics 3d experience.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's QWOP in archery form. 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Easy to masturbate to.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Basically surgeon simulator but archery. It's super difficult but funny and pretty fun, at least for a while. If you liked surgeon simulator, give this a try.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The apple dudes are pretty hot. 4/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i enjoyed bad rats more
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ragemode was activated 10/10 wont play again.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You can move your shoulder... Also in the game ! ...... No? meh.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the hardest games to get used to but fun nonetheless
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In the space of an hour I managed to hit a single target and shoot somebody in the knee. 10/10.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Trying to control a human body using a keybord is not fun.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Probably Archery attempts to be like games such as QWOP or Surgeon Simulator - an easy to understand but hard to control game that you get the hang of. The problem is that, unlike those games, the controls don't become intuitive after a little bit. It just stays frustrating and not fun.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nvm It started working for me again no more barf green screen any more. Here are the positive stuff. Fun Well made More than 1 game mode. Here are the negative's. Controls Never updated. Lag. Only my opinion.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →+Many modes, great concepts +Soccer with zombies +Co-op/multiplayer +Occulus support -Game controls - difficult even with practice -Modes have a short timer, very difficult for average player -Co-op/Multiplayer dead (game has multiplayer achievements) -Hasn't been updated in a while Bugs -Eggstermination - drops FPS and lags the game when tables flip at times -The Noose - hung person flings about the map making it impossible to win Probably Archery is definitely not for everyone. Might be…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't believe this game is in any way worth the money. Sure, it may be a little fun if you can actually figure out the controls and are able to shoot things more than 5% of the time, but other than that it requires way too much effort for such a cheap game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After About 15-20 minutes I actully got used to the Controls and had a lot of fun.
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positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can't hit anthing but i love a good challenge
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do you think Surgeon Simulator is Hard? THIS game is hard!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I murdered a man with an apple as a head trying to shoot an apple off his apple head. 11/10 Would murder again
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was challenged to play this game for at least 15 minutes and then write a review. Well, after 15 minutes I still couldn’t effectively draw an arrow, knock it and successfully shoot it anywhere near the target. The controls are like trying to sew a button onto a silk shirt with square hands. This game has your hands all over the keyboard. So I moved onto another mode after failing at target practice. I found 10 modes, such as; the berserker, Noose, Zombie Soccer, and more. Since I never could…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →loved it for a few minutes. a part of me is wanting to chuck it aside due to its repetitive nature, but the perfectionist in me drives me to keep on playing and perfecting (in other words: hitting just about any random target!). plus the price i got it at was unbeatably cheap. but, for the full price i really would not recommend it, not even for a 50% off sales price. just get it when it's reeeaaally cheap and have a laugh for some 10 minutes and either get obsessed or rage-quit.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is absolutely zany. I'd recommend this for people who like to tinker or concentrate *REALLY* hard on playing a game well. It's an archery simulation from a FPS view, where you have individual control of each of the shooter's arm joints. You can only control either left or right wrist/elbow/shoulder at a time, not simultaneously. At first, it is confusing as hell. Then shortly after, it becomes a little sensible but still extremely difficult to control. With time you can learn to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Awful controls don't make a game; this is not a mechanic, it's a joke. Buy it if you're an idiot hipster who thinks irony is fun. "GET IT, IT'S AWESOME BECAUSE IT'S SO DAMNED TERRIBLE! YAY!"
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is the spiritual successor to QWOP. Except QWOP was fun.
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positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is basically Surgeon Simulator/Ampu-Tea but instead of surgery or making a cup of tea, you need to micromanage the actions of firing a bow. You need to individually move your each hand, elbow and shoulder to get the bow and arrow all into the right places so you can shoot at things. On the upsides the graphics aren't completely awful, just bad and kind of simplistic. There's no sense in criticising the controls here, they made them bad on purpose. But we can criticise the decision to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Follow our [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/36214917/]Curator Group for more reviews Probably Archery is a first person shooter that falls into the "intentionally bad controls" category of games. Games like Surgeon Simulator manage to make the controls challenging and difficult to precisely use, but the game still manages to be fun. Probably Archery's biggest problem is that the controls are too bad. You can't accomplish anything, so it feels far more frustrating than it should be.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Even after a few hours, I still don't know wtf I'm doing with my bow.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Eh.. I guess it's a big part of archery how you control your arms and stuff but this game is just over complicated. Learning controls starts to get frustrating really fast and after that comes the aiming part which is equal annoying. I just find this game to be more annoying than fun so it's a big fat no from me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can't do it. 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the most horrid controls I've ever seen or felt? What in the heck. This must be a joke. Worst simulator ever. 2/10 [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45905648-Gork%2527s-Game-Grind/]Check out my curated list of games
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Archery Simulation, overdone In Real life I loved Archery, it's a good sport where you can relax, and I am quite able to hit the targets - not perfectly, but among the top tier in our group back at vocational college. But this game is just one thing, frustrating to no avail. It's getting lost in the "Crap" Category of my library, because it's a bit too overdone, not too difficult, but simply overdone. Most is ruined by the awkward controlls, that at times makes you feel like you have no…
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