The Quiet Man Reviews

The Quiet Man is ranked in the 0th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Eurogamer
Top Critic
Avoid
Nov 7, 2018

The worst of pretentious story games and brainless beat-em-ups combined - with an insulting gimmick that's all its own.

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IGN
David Griffin
Top Critic
5.5 / 10.0
Nov 6, 2018

The Quiet Man has great live-action cutscenes, but the repetitive gameplay becomes tiresome.

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GameCentral
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2 / 10
Nov 6, 2018

A terrible idea poorly realised, with a mixture of pretentious, gimmicky storytelling and banal combat that is almost awe-inspiring in the full extent of its incompetence.

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3 / 10.0
Nov 9, 2018

The Quiet Man isn't fun, interesting, or worthwhile in any way. No one should play it

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GameSpot
Top Critic
2 / 10
Nov 6, 2018

The Quiet Man is an almost completely silent beat-em-up that combines badly staged live-action drama with a clunky, broken combat system.

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4 / 10.0
Nov 2, 2018

"Roughly one week after launch" The Quiet Man is getting an update that will add audio into the mix, and thus, context. Maybe it'll be the most subversive, Molyneux-esque patch in the history of gaming. For now, Square Enix is charging $14.99 for a ticket to ride and I can safely say that you can miss this train.

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GameMAG
Top Critic
2 / 10
Dec 9, 2018

The Quiet Man turned out to be a complete failure with a messy concept, bugs and a set of banal live action scenes mixed up with a primitive gameplay. Everything is bad here - from the animation and the combat system to the plot, sound quality and direction.

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2 / 10.0
Nov 5, 2018

The Quiet Man should have stayed that way.

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2 / 10
Nov 2, 2018

There's nothing else quite like The Quiet Man, and there's a reason for that. The blend of FMV and interactive combat sequences fails on every level with an unfathomable plot that raises far more questions than it answers, and encounters that fail to explain themselves and do little to engage. The Quiet Man is the most baffling release of 2018, to the point where a post-mortem investigation into its sheer existence sounds so much more exciting than this bizarre and convoluted comedy sketch.

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Nov 7, 2018

The Quiet Man cannot translate its ambition into a cohesive and fulfilling experience, finding trouble both from a gameplay and thematic perspective.

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1 / 10
Nov 12, 2018

We give The Quiet Man a point because it exists, and some people worked on it, but it is easily one of the biggest trainwrecks of the video games History. Gameplay is awful, narrative is awful... nothing can be saved, and no one would ever have the patience to play it once and then download the New Game Plus DLC that includes sounds to understand something. It's just too painful.

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Thomas McMullan
Top Critic
Nov 12, 2018

Everything is so bad in The Quiet Man, from its fumbled central idea and its terrible combat to a plot that ends in a morass of incomprehensible revelations, that it's something of a modern-day curio. The fact it comes from a major studio such as Square Enix, and has clearly had a substantial budget given its models and lighting, makes it all the more bizarre. Somewhere, at some point, there must have been the seed of a good idea. Whatever happened, the result is a tangle of failures that is best remembered as a bad dream.

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GameCrate
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4.3 / 10.0
Nov 2, 2018

Perhaps the most disappointing thing about The Quiet Man is that it presents a world I want to know more about. I like the idea of a deaf vigilante-esque antihero doing his best to find the good in a world of darkness and violence, even if it means having to become a force of darkness and violence himself. However, in the case of The Quiet Man, that strong premise is squandered by lazy development decisions and incredibly odd artistic choices.

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4.7 / 10.0
Oct 23, 2017

While it misses the mark in general and douses the hopes I had when I first saw the E3 2018 trailer, The Quiet Man does have some value. It’s reasonably priced despite its issues and brevity, and if you’re looking for something a little different, it’s worth a look, just keep your expectations considerably tempered.

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1 / 5.0
Nov 8, 2018

It's bold to dish out a product with so many obvious absentees of the most fundamental components to a video game, but The Quiet Man goes one step further in presenting itself as this artistically-flash, cinematically-deep experience it's all too proud of itself over without ever working for that accolade.

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1 / 10.0
Nov 4, 2018

The Quiet Man is an absolute disaster of ideas that don't work, bad design decisions, boring combat, ugly graphics, and attempting to use a real disability as a gimmick in a way that feels borderline insulting.

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2 / 10.0
Nov 3, 2018

Overall, this is a weird game that shouldn't have been released. Even at around 15 dollars I feel ripped off. The plot is an incoherent mess and the combat is buggy and broken and worst of all, it's just not fun.

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2 / 5.0
Nov 3, 2018

A unique experience, something we don't usually expect from risk averse major publishers, but its strangeness is let down by poor execution and repetition.

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25 / 100
Nov 14, 2018

The Quiet Man is a complete mess and doesn't accomplish anything that it proposes. Its story is short, uninteresting, noninteractive and doesn't bring any kind of reflection to the player. Its gameplay is monotonous, shallow and full of technical problems. It is a shame that a renowned company like Square Enix allows the release of a title as problematic as The Quiet Man. Unfortunately, in its current state, the game shouldn't even be sold as an Alpha version.

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