Left Alive Reviews

Left Alive is ranked in the 2nd percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Mar 12, 2019

With the exception of the story, everything about this ill-conceived Front Mission spin-off feels totally broken, horribly dated, and entirely unloved. Left Alive works better as an unpolished frustration simulator than an action/stealth game.

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3.5 / 10.0
Mar 8, 2019

Left Alive is a tremendously disappointing return to the Front Mission universe.

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Mar 11, 2019

Left Alive's ambitious ideas are held back by a myriad of design and technical problems.

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2 / 10
Mar 7, 2019

In a few days, once the papers are about to finish it, Left Alive will return to anonymity from the beginning, carrying with it the secret of its existence. Thanks to him, we remembered the charisma of PlayStation's Front Mission years ago and how incredible Metal Gear is on so many aspects. An incomprehensible and catastrophic attempt to survive and infiltrate, bad on all fronts, Left Alive deserves now to rest in peace.

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7 / 10.0
Mar 8, 2019

I often found myself willing to overlook all the obvious flaws in favor of engaging with what sits at Left Alive’s messy core, a sort of ultra hardcore, Metal Gear-looking-but-not-really, room escape-slash-solo-board game sort of deal that really got my brain juices flowing.

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RPG Fan
Top Critic
60%
May 15, 2019

In this way, I would argue Left Alive is the purest survival game ever: if you can play to the end, you can survive anything.

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4.5 / 10.0
Oct 25, 2018

Left Alive was not a fun game to play. It lacked personality, even though it wanted to be an MGS clone so bad. It lacked complication for a stealth game, as well as comfortable character movement and slow ramp-up of difficulty. I think if the devs could have had more time to smooth out these rough areas, then the game would have been decent, if not good.

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3 / 10
Mar 20, 2019

A confused, badly designed and derivative mess of a stealth game, which should be avoided at all costs.

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2 / 5.0
Mar 11, 2019

Left Alive is surprisingly simple, yet somehow manages to get so much wrong.

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1.5 / 5.0
Mar 12, 2019

Even with its exhaustive, laundry list of issues, it's telling when a broken game of this magnitude still manages to rustle up some semblance of potential.

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4.5 / 10.0
Mar 11, 2019

In concept, Left Alive could have had the potential to bring about the revival of Front Mission and fill the void left by the absence of Metal Gear at the same time, but none of its elements click to become a cohesive whole.

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4 / 10.0
Mar 11, 2019

Left Alive fails to deliver a modern stealth experience. A good story can't save the total mess of a game with too many flaws and too many frustrating moments.

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4 / 10.0
Mar 9, 2019

Left Alive won't satisfy fans of stealth or of Front Mission. With unengaging gameplay, erratic AI, and a lack of polish across the board, Left Alive won't be remembered in the years to come.

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3 / 10.0
Mar 8, 2019

Left Alive is a shoddily assembled mess with no real redeeming features. Its broken AI and glaring technical issues only serve to highlight the poor game design on display.

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5 / 10.0
Mar 27, 2019

This isn’t the mech game that most were really hoping for, nor is it really a political war game. It’s just kinda there, never reaching its full potential. Really dear reader, with so much having just released and releasing here soon, I would recommend most buyers give this one a pass. You won’t be missing much.

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7 / 10.0
Apr 12, 2019

Despite your characters being 3 random people with totally different stories and experience in the field of combat, they all seem like hopeless lambs sent to the slaughter when faced with the opposing forces that could wipe them out in a few seconds.

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2.5 / 10.0
Mar 20, 2019

Left Alive is blatant and very abortive stealth action. Let it die.

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1 / 5.0
Mar 9, 2019

The essence and the general idea of this game is good, but it was executed in the worst way you can ever imagine. The only explanation to how bad this game is because the developer wanted to create a game with a big scope but with a very limited budget! At its current state I wouldn't recommend this game to anybody. The only prize this game would viscously compete for is the prize of "The worst game of this generation"!

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GameGrin
Nikki Koolonavich
Top Critic
3 / 10.0
Mar 22, 2019

Left Alive falls short in many areas. What could of been an interesting title ends up being one you best avoid.

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Mar 15, 2019

Left Alive is a bundle of genuinely brilliant ideas, let down by frequently shoddy execution. A resoundingly anti-war war game, with a deep understanding of the way that war complicates personal and societal morality, Left Alive asks all the right questions that a game about war should.

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