Total Chaos
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Total Chaos - Console Launch Trailer | Xbox Partner Preview Fall 2025
Total Chaos - Launch Trailer (Extended Cut)
Total Chaos - Console Launch Trailer | Xbox Partner Preview 2025
Critic Reviews for Total Chaos
The extreme lengths it takes to make the player feel hopeless may be too much for the casual player, so it's definitely not a game that could be recommended to everyone.
It’s not often we see such a thematic change between games like the move from Turbo Overkill to Total Chaos, but I think Trigger Happy Interactive has built something quite fun with this game. It might not always be consistent, but when Total Chaos hits, it hits like a sledgehammer crushing a twisted figment of our warping sanity.
Originally an ambitious Doom II mod, Total Chaos is an action-heavy survival horror gem.
When you put all of Total Chaos' myriad of gameplay elements together, a lot of the fear factor quickly disappears, giving way to something more akin to Doom than to survival horror. There's definitely an audience for this game, but it's more of a survival horror-adjacent experience. It has elements of the survival horror genre, but it leans too hard into the Doom formula. This combination creates a fun concept that needs editing to be a cohesive product. $25 is a fair price tag for what Total Chaos offers, but it may make some hesitate if they don't know what they're getting into.
Total Chaos brings enough to the table to be worth trying, despite minor issues that may affect your enjoyment depending on how much they matter to you. For the most part, though, it's a challenging survival horror experience that's well-designed and consistently focused on building fear and tension.
Total Chaos is rough, strange, and stubborn in all the right ways.It's the kind of horror game that lingers because it feels genuinely lived-in, and If you're willing to meet it on its own terms, it gets under your skin and stays there.
Total Chaos' remake can be orthodox to a fault, but it's a polished evolution of a fascinating blend of survival horror and shooter that never lets off the gas.
Fans of tense melee terror - or old-school DOOM games in general - shouldn't hesitate to check out Total Chaos this holiday season.
