Yes, worth buying.
It's at its lowest recorded price, $15.99.
- Story and characters: 212 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 120 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Audio: 83 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Difficulty: 19 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Performance: 10 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 153k player reviews · updated 5 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
You may find yourself needing to change your chip plugins to finish quests as well, which is a nice part of Automata's game design.
But I once saw a short gameplay clip with great orchestral music, then read some spoiler-free reviews praising the story, so I gave it a try.
Great Japanese and English voice acting - even the credits music is localised
The graphics hold up beautifully even so many years later, but if any game is deserving of a huge glow-up in visuals to account for the worlds better hardware this is one of them, because you can see just how beautiful it already is and how beautiful it could still be in current eras.
Native controller support
1440p OLED, 240Hz/FPS, HDR, G-Sync, Special K HDR injection, max settings, DualSense over Bluetooth, perfect frame pacing, no input delay, full visual fidelity, full audio quality, fully optimized system.
Theme by theme
Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.
Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 2 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.
Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $15.99 (−60%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.
The data behind the verdict
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