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I figured I’d start out with current releases and work my way back through the month rather than play this constant game of catch up.

Today’s Gamers Don’t Game covers Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition which released on June 23, 2022 on PC, Switch, PS4, and Xbox One. Released by Nightdive Studios and Westwood Studios, Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition is the enhanced edition of Blade Runner. Go figure. It presently holds a 60% mixed rating on Steam and basically fell off the moment it hit store shelves. There have been three whole reviews on Steam from the last week.

So did gamers play Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition? No. Not really. You know it’s going to be a good one when the top achievement has a 65% completion score. What this tells me right off the bat is that 35% of people who bought the enhanced edition never booted the game up once. A majority didn’t get far. The KIA Database is one of the first things you have access to and the Esper is used within the first 15 minutes of starting a new game.

So few of the people who bought the game actually played it. As tends to be the case the further you get into the story the more people stick around. While half of players who got to act 2 never made it to act 3, the dropoff is less after that. 13.8% of players get to act 3, then 9.8% get to act 4 (a 30% drop off), with 8% making it to act 5 (19% drop) and 7.1% completing the game on at least easy difficulty (12% drop).

I think it’s safe to assume most people who beat the game did so on medium difficulty, since the trophies stack and 7% beat it on easy, 6.2% beat it on medium (and would unlock easy), and 2.3% beat it on the hardest mode.

Console statistics are actually pretty close to PC. Of Xbox users, 26.27% got to act 2, 13.37% to act 3, 8.95% to act 4, and 7.33% to act 5. 54% used the esper at least once with 71.95% using the KIA Database. Only 5.15% completed the game however. More PlayStation users got further with 33% reaching act 2, 18.1% reaching act 3, 12.9% act 4, and 10.9% act 5 with 8.6% completing at least on easy.

What’s the lesson here? I don’t know, probably that Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition isn’t a very well liked game among those who bought it and didn’t leave a good first impression considering how many either never booted it up or didn’t get further than a few minutes into the game.

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