Ready or Not is back in the Steam top five, sitting at #4 Top Sellers after a 50% price cut dropped VOID Interactive’s tactical shooter to $24.99. Concurrent players hit 24,009 this week, buoyed by the discount and the March 12 launch of the Boiling Point DLC. By the numbers, it looks like a comeback.

The review column tells a different story. A 75% positive rating across 179,486 reviews — Steam’s “Mostly Positive” tag — is the kind of score that makes a buyer hesitate. For context, 45,099 people have left negative reviews. That is not a rounding error.

Much of the damage traces back to a censorship controversy in 2025, when VOID Interactive modified gore, nudity, and violent scenarios on PC to meet console certification standards ahead of a multiplatform launch. Players review-bombed the game hard enough to push it into “Mostly Negative” territory, furious at what they called a bait-and-switch — content they paid for, altered without their consent. VOID’s response that “most people here wouldn’t notice if we didn’t say anything” did not help, according to PC Gamer’s reporting at the time.

Recent reviews paint a brighter picture. The last 30 days show an 85% positive rate — “Very Positive” — suggesting the Boiling Point expansion and ongoing patches (version 1.4 brought over 200 fixes) have steadied the ship. The DLC itself, priced at $9.99, carries an 83% positive score from its own reviews.

So what you have is a genuinely compelling tactical shooter that a lot of people enjoy right now, dragging an overall score scarred by a self-inflicted controversy. At $24.99, the player count says the deal is working. Whether VOID can fully rebuild the trust those 45,000 negative reviews represent is another question.

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