The new game “Wild Hearts” from Electronic Arts received 78% on Metacritic for the PC version, but on Steam, the reviews drop to 41%. One user sums up the criticism: “The price is higher than the FPS” that Wild Hearts achieves.
What does the press say about the game? On Metacritic, Wild Hearts has 78% for the PC version – the user score is even significantly higher at 86%:
- It is described by the press as a “fantastic video game with flair and personality” (God is a geek).
- GameRant refers to it as a “wonderful new brand in the hunter genre that can stand up to Monster Hunter.”
- GameStar gives it 78% and states: “A skilled monster hunter clone that impresses with fresh ideas, but suffers in terms of technology.” However, the tester issues a technical warning for the PC version. He criticizes a “clumsy console port” that refuses to scale with PC hardware.
2600 negative reviews – Even players who like it are disappointed
How are the reviews on Steam? Disastrous. Only 41% rate Wild Hearts positively. 2612 reviews are currently speaking negatively about the game.
The main point of criticism repeatedly voiced is the poor performance, even from people who actually like the game:
- Mani writes after 2 hours: “Guys, guys: It’s about too much money in the industry to send a game out like this.”
- Phoenix writes after 12 hours: “Wild Hearts is fantastic when it runs. But my god: Multiplayer runs really badly in 9 out of 10 cases due to the connection. There are constant sound bugs, the graphics just pop out, and the frame rate is always in the basement.”
- Spqkii writes in a positive comment: “In Germany, we say: Brother, actually a pretty awesome game, but the price is higher than the FPS in the game.”
Also on MeinMMO, the game is rated very critically with 43% by user reviews.
The site PC Gamer notes: PC gamers are fed up with bad PC ports of console games. Examples of other bad ports include:
- Warhammer 40k: Darktide
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake
- Elden Ring
They write: It’s the year 2023! If we can’t have flying cars, then at least PC games that don’t stutter every 30 seconds.
In the meantime, the developers have also announced a fix for the PC issues:
Wild Hearts: Players criticize poor performance at release – developers promise a solution
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