Ready or Not is SWAT 4 for the 2020s, i.e. a very good police game that strives to be a police simulator.

You have to follow the rules of engagement, there's a dedicated button for yelling at suspects to put their hands up, and you can tase people. However, at the same time, the limitations of it being a game are clear-- for example, in a shootout, suspect #1 gets on their knees to surrender, while #2 next to him is still actively strafing and shooting back. Or wildly inconsistent stealth, like suspects being incapable of reacting to doors being closed into their rooms, while also taking hostages across the map when you first enter a building.

The "atmospheric storytelling" is eye-roll-inducing, with every single map featuring paramilitary-armed enemies, be they kids robbing the gas station, cartel members, or druggies in a crackhouse. They are also blantatly game-ified to create as many dead ends and blind corners as possible, rather than being designed like real buildings.

The developers engage in extremely unconscionable business practices, including the use of AI-generated art, and most recently engaging in censorship (presumably to lower the game's rating from AO to M) and appyling same changes to the PC version.

Yet, I still would mostly recommend this game, because, well, there's no other game that syngergizes the experience of being SWAT than this game. It is still improved over the extremely clunky, though ambitious and well-made, SWAT 4.


Regardless of the negative reviews, the devs won't do anything about it, so it comes down to: well, do you wanna play Cops n' Robbers or not?

Ready or Not is SWAT 4 for the 2020s, i.e. a very good police game that strives to be a police simulator. You have to follow the rules of engagement, there's a dedicated button for yelling at suspects to put their hands up, and you can tase people. However, at the same time, the limitations of it being a game are clear-- for example, in a shootout, suspect #1 gets on their knees to surrender, while #2 next to him is still actively strafing and shooting back. Or wildly inconsistent stealth, like suspects being incapable of reacting to doors being closed into their rooms, while also taking hostages across the map when you first enter a building. The "atmospheric storytelling" is eye-roll-inducing, with every single map featuring paramilitary-armed enemies, be they kids robbing the gas station, cartel members, or druggies in a crackhouse. They are also blantatly game-ified to create as many dead ends and blind corners as possible, rather than being designed like real buildings. The developers engage in extremely unconscionable business practices, including the use of AI-generated art, and most recently engaging in censorship (presumably to lower the game's rating from AO to M) and appyling same changes to the PC version. Yet, I still would mostly recommend this game, because, well, there's no other game that syngergizes the experience of being SWAT than this game. It is still improved over the extremely clunky, though ambitious and well-made, SWAT 4. Regardless of the negative reviews, the devs won't do anything about it, so it comes down to: well, do you wanna play Cops n' Robbers or not?