The Quiet Man Reviews

The Quiet Man is ranked in the 0th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Dec 6, 2018

You’ll have more fun waiting in line at the DMV, and you’ll feel more accomplished because at least you know you’ll be done there. The Quiet Man is simply terrible, so let’s hope that was loud and clear.

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10 / 100
Nov 22, 2018
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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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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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2 / 10.0
Nov 17, 2018

For sure, designing The Quite Man, Square Enix focused on innovation, but looking at the result, we can say the software house failed. More than all the problems we already discussed in the review, there are several bugs, system crashes, really long loadings, and a boring gameplay. The concept behind is really good, but the final product is not acceptable. This is one of the games that you can really leave behind in this 2018, that gave us a lot of masterpieces. Probably The Quite Man is one of the worst game of the year

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2 / 10.0
Nov 5, 2018

Crap gameplay, worse story and a terrible gimmick, The Quiet Man just barely manages to be ironically enjoyable, but you should probably leave well enough alone.

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GameSkinny
William R. Parks
Top Critic
Nov 6, 2018

An attempt to immerse players in a soundless world fails to reconcile concept and execution, delivering a baffling story and uninspired gameplay in the process.

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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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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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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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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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Metro GameCentral
GameCentral
Top Critic
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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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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30 / 100
Nov 6, 2018

The Quiet Man is a failed experiment, but unlike other games that share this fate, it doesn't seem constrained by budget or technical limitations – but rather poor execution and abnormal design choices that cause its own undoing.

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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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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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3.5 / 10.0
Nov 4, 2018

The Quiet Man near-instantly derails a compelling concept with its most horrid execution and thigh-slapping self-seriousness, and is sure to go down as one of the worst games of 2018.

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