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Game2018
THE QUIET MAN™
Developer Square Enix, Human Head Studios
The Quiet Man is a 2018 action-adventure beat 'em up video game developed by Human Head Studios and published by Square Enix for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 4. The game's story is told through lengthy full motion video sequences, some of which feature live-action actors, inserted between the gameplay sequences. It features a deaf protagonist, reflected by muted sound with no subtitles in most of the cutscenes.… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
187 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest Sep 27, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
34
Rotten
64 positive · 123 negative
95% range 28–41%
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Steam's own rating
Mostly Negative
268 of 707 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 187 · most liked firstA deaf man's fever dream about beating up the same three Latinos over and over again through the course of a night who stand between him and his Oedipal complex lover
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was born deaf and this game made me wish I was blind too.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First off; I am the current #1 Quiet Man Speedrunner IN THE WORLD. With that being said..... Nobody should ever play this game, it's just that bad. You might think I'm just trying to protect my title but I'm one of the 11% of people who have the achievement for finishing the game a second time. Not convinced yet? Ok, how about this? After two and a half years I am also the ONLY person who has submitted a speedrun of this game. Think of the worst game you've ever played and it probably has a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a schlocky B-movie with several dumb missteps and sometimes awkward delivery, padded with poor brawling sequences marred with poor feedback and technical issues. So, why recommended? It's a tough question -- I'd say it falls somewhere between the 'recommended' and 'not recommended' for me. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, but I enjoyed it for what it is: a 'so bad it's good' FMV game with interesting ideas, and I liked how the story can be interpreted differently based on whether you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm a sucker for playing bad games. I have a morbid curiosity in playing a game that has such a poor reputation that I feel compelled to experience it for myself. Over my 35+ years of gaming, The Quiet Man is up there as being one of the worst games I've ever played. Yes, I've played indie trash and asset flips, which on a technical level may be worse; but Quiet Man is just a bad on multiple levels. This game appears to have had a decent budget with backing by a large publisher and it's by…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Before playing this game the lowest I've ever rated a game was a 3/10. The Quiet Man has the distinct honor of being my first ever 1/10. The combat is jank, barely works, repetitive button mashing, glitches out constantly, and the dodging system required to hit bosses is broken and only works when it feels like it. I can hardly classify this as a game because it's maybe 30 minutes of game play with an awkward mix of Full Motion Video and in game cutscenes. Honestly I think my first play…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's impressive how bad this game is.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Quiet Man is great proof that Square Enix has NO ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ CLUE what they're investing into. As a reminder - they've managed to drive Deus Ex, Thief, and Front Mission to the ground and wasted great properties like Marvel's Avengers and somehow - not only did this game got green-lit, but got past the prototype phase and was funded into completion. The Quiet Man is a very basic brawler, where a story is being told by either FMVs or in-game cutscenes (there is no logit to it. The story was…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yikes, where do I begin? I paid $3.59 out of morbid curiosity to try this game. I'm a huge fan of games and movies that are "so bad that they're good", but this falls squarely in the bad category mainly due to the inexplicable decisions made by the developers at every turn. The "game" is 90% cut scene, switching between FMV that is reminiscent of a university arts students first failed foray into film making, and in-game graphics cut scenes for the parts they didn't have the budget to film. The…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →bought it as a joke and still couldnt make it through half an hour 10/10 solved my insomnia
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game should stay quiet forever.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This isn't for deaf people. It isn't for people who can hear. It isn't for people who like games. It isn't for people who like movies. It isn't for people who like good gameplay. It isn't for people who like a cinematic experience. So idk who this is for, but my only guess is that it's for people who really like beating up one specific cholo in a weed hoodie, cause that's most of the game. It's not funny bad, it's just bad. Don't buy it for a joke or as a bit. Just don't buy it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its like if Neil Breen made a Yakuza game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Quiet Man is certainly one of the most wronged games with so many unfair reviews. Ok, the game has it’s share of issues, specially considering mechanics. However, most bad reviews are about “how the game does not work because it have no sound”, and this is kind of an absurd. The whole idea of the game was to be a fair experience of being somewhat alike a deaf person, as the main character is. It’s a fictional story and so, even though it might not represent exactly how it is to be deaf,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I thought this game would be really good for deaf awareness etc but it's instead exploitative and it isn't understandable without actually hearing the diaolgue. It's also frustrating as the character you play can read lips and knows sign language but if you can't do these things, you're more than deaf, you're also shut out of basic communications with other characters. The final straw came as some talking scene didn't even use FMV. A digital character talking is extremely hard to lip read.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is an experience. I do not understand, and I don't think I was meant to. Thank you, The Quiet Man, for allowing me to enjoy other games more in comparison.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →All of this was a horrible idea and its all executed in the worst way it possibly could have been.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i gifted this game to 5 friends of mine when it was reduced to 2.99 EUR, because I like to see people suffer
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I did not believe it at the time, but this game really is incredibly bad. A well deserved Mostly Negative rating.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Should've listened to the reviews on here, they weren't kidding. The combat system is absolute a*s. Sometimes hits won't even register. Other times there will be unforgivable clipping issues. And the clipping doesn't stop at gameplay, that's just something the models will do even during cutscenes. Oh and camera controls? What camera controls? That doesn't exist and has never existed in the entire history of video games. Going back to cutscenes, they're unskippable and in your first…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unironically the worst video game I've ever played.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Quiet Man, developed by Human Head Studios in collaboration with Square Enix and published by Square Enix, is an experimental action-adventure title that set out to blur the line between film and video games, but ultimately became better known for its missteps than its ambition. The game centers on Dane, a deaf vigilante navigating a single night in a grimy urban underworld, searching for answers surrounding a violent incident and a mysterious masked antagonist. From the very beginning, The…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Amazing experience. Big ups. 2 thumbs up
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I came for the memes, stayed because I have a problem where I have to finish games that I start. Then in an act of self hatred never before known, I played it again with sound. It is impressive when you are able to make something this bad even worse by adding dialogue to it. Dude should have stayed quiet. The only other note I'll make is the way the game handles deaf people is really offensive. Apparently he can have full conversations with people and know what they are saying (no…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →well you could say this game left me speechless ahahah btw i hated every second of it, you should buy it
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I gave it a chance because I thought the game was offering a unique experience and people "didn't get it". I was dead wrong. - Cinemas are useless in the first playthrough. One would think that since the main character is deaf, we would be able to "understand" sign language, but it is not translated. I couldn't read lips, and even if I was great at it, a lot of times the camera hides mouths, and when the cinema is ingame, mouths don't move that well. Also, we aren't blind, we may not know what…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game was made after the producer saw a deaf kid and decided that being deaf is beating up the same 5 generic NPCs with the sound muted. The story is nonsensical. Characters talk at you despite your character being deaf. All dialogue you hear after the first scene sounds like a piano being played underwater. Your character has superpowers and is really into parkour for some reason. I finished the game in 2 and a half hours. I forgot most of the game the second the credits rolled.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Interesting concept, Horrible execution. My biggest issue, out of very many, is the fact that the silent part of the game, the actors are not expressive enough to make up for the silence.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sometimes I wonder about reviews. Yes, this game combines FMV with video game combat to create a "cinematic experience" and yes, the entire first playthrough is basically silent. Since these are plastered all over the sales page as the main selling points... it'd be nuts to complain that they gave me what they promised. This is absolutely far from perfect, but its also nowhere near the worst game I've played. The cinematic blend of FMV and combat was really well done. It invoked alot of the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Let me begin that I read most of the recent reviews and ignored all of the negative reviews of this game... and let me tell you, they are ALL right. This game is sooo poorly put together. Why have live action seens as cuts and then terrible 3d graphics for the playable action. Don't get me wrong it started out good but then very quickly, I seen why it has mostly negative reviews. Please save your money unless it is free. THEN and only then it might be worth to play... if you're bored.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Genuinely the worst game I have ever played relative to its budget. Not even worth playing ironically or to laugh at. Just miserably terrible.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →5/10 The Quiet Man has two playthrough, first one without any sound and second one with audio and soundtracks. The first playthrough is a suffering experience which at first I just wanted to insult everything in the game. But when I played the second run which unlocked after finishing the game for the first time, I really enjoyed it. Maybe the creators wanted to show us how a deaf person feels, but they did it in the wrong way. There are also other issues like camera angle and some funny bugs,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is truly mind boggling that: * this exists * the game is mostly cutscenes * how little sense any of this makes * how bad the UI is * how pretentious the achievement descriptions are * this exists and someone paid money to make it * how bad the acting is * how you can walk away from opponents and they can't catch up to you * that the game director wasn't fired mid-way through this mess * also, that this exists -1/10 worst game I've played all year.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In an alternate reality where America has captured both South America and Canada and created the new 96 states of America, you play as hit video game character The Quiet Man, who really hates Dominican cartels and loves his mother/girlfriend and will defend her with his FISTS and INABILITY TO HEAR THINGS. Your journey will take you through many classic locations. Cartel Building. Cartel Building in reverse. Street. The Other Street. And of course the legendary Penthouse #1 and Rooftop areas.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I know you. You're looking at this game thinking, "oh im gonna buy this for a friend as a joke" as a friend did to me. When that friend inevitably makes YOU suffer with them there will be NO laughter. NO entertainment. NO japes, jokes and haha funny times. The only thing you'll feel is confusion and dread as you experience the game in near silence for three hours with looooong silent cutscenes and a fighting system that feels like shaking a bunch of action figures inside a plastic…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This has to be one of the worst games I have ever played on Steam. This game is bad in almost every way, the game is a complete failure. I wonder who thought it was a good idea to release it? In this game you are deaf yourself and you can't hear anything. The story suffers greatly because you can't follow it at all. The scenes are sometimes unnecessarily long, you can not skip them and have to look at everything. I had the one or other bug, whereby I even 1x nen complete chapter from the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't do it. It's not worth it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This games concept fully revolves around the story. Even that doesnt hold it together. Live action cut scenes with horrible acting, terrible unrelatable characters and you need to grind through the boring story without sound for the gimmicky reveal. Between the terrible story sequence you have linear paths to walk through and incredibly repetitive fight sequences with incredibly bad mechanics and animation. Its so bad enemies teleport into your hands from the floor or you get punched by…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is genuinely one of the worst experiences I’ve had, and I can’t believe it was released in this state. On my first playthrough, there was no audio and no subtitles at all, which makes the game practically unplayable. Even worse, you’re required to complete the game first just to unlock audio, which is an incredibly poor and baffling design choice. The combat is equally frustrating. You can’t properly damage bosses with normal punches, forcing you to dodge and counterattack…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the most baffling modern day FMV games, switching between poorly acted cutscenes with muffled audio so you can't understand what they are saying and some of the worst beat them up combat ever made. On a second playthrough, you can hear the dialogue, and you'll find out this is a Freudian Batman nightmare filtered through a 13-year old obsessed with YT compilations of the best action scenes of The Matrix. In other words, its immensely riffable and fascinating. If you can get it on a sale…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bad in pretty much every way, the only enjoyable thing about this game is laughing about how bad it is.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →When I was a teenager, a game called The Bouncer came out. It was an early PS2 game, when the PS2 desperately needed new games. But the reviews and chat around the Babbage’s was that The Bouncer was bad. Short, repetitive, linear. A good looking but dumb beat-em-up. I didn’t play The Bouncer, largely because of this reputation but also because I was pretty broke. The Quiet Man is a The Bouncer for this generation. I should have treated it accordingly. This game is a movie that you play. Half…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Maybe suicide IS an option
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this is the worst game i've ever played and i've played the entirety of revolution 60
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cant believe this is the same human head that made prey. Edit: this is the worst game ive ever played. But luckily now that its over I do not have to play it again!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is like a failed experiment. The main character is deaf and you play with zero audio feedback. This is something i have never seen or heard of. You are just watching a movie and beating guys in between the cutscenes. Again with no audio feedback and zero directive, fighting becomes unbearable. There is no story unless you finish the game and restart, cuz you are deaf. This should have been a different game. I like the idea and the quality of the game but it is unplayable with common…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →AN HONEST REVIEW!!! I think this game got a lot more hate than it deserved, sure it has its downs but I want to give an honest opinion. The story line is great, however, the downside is that you have to play the game twice to get the context. Since you play as a character (Dane) that is deaf, the whole first play through is completely silent. If you have the patients and time to spend on this game I do recommend playing through it twice, and you get a nice ending after the credits. My only…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the most mysterious, possibly evil games I've ever played. More research required.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really don't know what experience was trying to be achieved with this game. Story has no audio so I didn't know what was going on, and the combat itself is a total mess. Camera angles are terrible, preventing the player from seeing what's going on, and the camera constantly whips around to "cinematic" angles that just obscure the action and cause frustration. Complete mess of a game. I can at least appreciate the attempt to do something different but none of it is done well so you're…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Interesting concept, would be much better if the game gave you.. ya know, context. I understand the lack of hearing - not always you understand, not everything is important... But if I'm talking in sign language give me subtitles for what I know I'm saying. If the main character knows what the other is saying, that's a good time to throw in subtitles. It doesn't even have to be full subtitles, give me words that the main character catches in a sentence. If they're using sign language then…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i didn't watch any review for the game, it was like 2.99 or something. so make sure you watch a review for something even at a low price.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do not buy. not even on sale. you will waste your money.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The plot is nonsense, but you won't understand it anyways because there's no sound.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is... This is now one of my favourite games ever. For a game to receive a mostly negative user score, it has to be EXTREMELY bad. Even pretty bad games on Steam can get away with average ratings. However, as I was playing through The Quiet Man, I came to realize that the brawler combat, while simple, was satisfying and rewarding. Lots of different moves, your character changing their fighting style as the game progresses, and environmental interaction... It's basic with small touches,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Actually the worst game I've ever played. My friend gifted me this game because it was 3 dollars and he wanted to watch me play to see how bad the game was. This game has the worst controls out of any game I've ever played like what are you doing? The games hitboxes are unbelievably fuc ked and I'll watch an enemy clearly finish their attack, then go over and get hit by an obscure lasting hitbox. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ its actually so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bad.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Quiet Man - Single Player / Single Game Review (Opinionated) The story was hard to follow throughout the game due to the lack of audio; however, great Quentin Tarantino feel at the end when the basic story line is laid out. This game is for those that love a cinematographic vibe and enjoy watching the story unfold. On the other hand alot of the story is missed when playing the first run through which requires the player (yourself) to play a second run through with the dialogue and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a game that I absolutely believe is genuinely terrible through and through, but not an experience I regret having. The quiet man is a game with terrible gameplay, sound design, storytelling, visuals, cutscenes, and it even runs very poorly and is built very poorly. I could only set the resolution up to 720p, I experienced like 3 crashes during my 3 hour playthrough, and I could not use a controller despite the game definitely feeling like it is built for it. Despite the fact that not…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game turned out better than I expected after all the reviews so far. Yes, the fighting mechanics weren’t very smooth, but the idea behind the project is very original. The studio had tight deadlines and a limited budget, so they did the best they could. I'm not a very judgmental person, and I always try to evaluate all aspects. So yeah, I enjoyed the game no matter what!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →please don't play this
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I dunno why all the negative feed back I enjoy the game yes there is a lack of hearable dialogue but the person you are playing as is deaf so just cause you can't hear the npcs talking you can read the lips if you pay close enough attention. The videos blend nicely into the gameplay graphics are very well done. will be playing this on my twitch soon http://twitch.tv/viathin
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