God of War

God of War's 2022 PC arrival landed about as smoothly as a major PlayStation port has ever landed, and reading through six years of reviews confirms the reputation is well earned — with one honest, worthwhile dissent and one real, current technical caveat worth understanding.

A port that did almost everything right

Reviewers were quick to notice, and quick to reward, how clean this port actually was. "No additional account, no unnecessary launcher, no denuvo, no epic exclusivity, no microtransactions, just a video game as it always should be," reads the single most-upvoted review in the game's history, with 7,253 votes — a sentence that reads almost like a direct rebuke to several other recent AAA ports discussed elsewhere in this library. Beyond the technical presentation, reviewers consistently single out the game's single continuous camera shot, maintained across the entire campaign without a hard cut, as a genuinely rare technical and storytelling achievement, paired with a father-son narrative between Kratos and Atreus that reviewers across every year describe among the best character writing in the medium.

An honest dissent from the series' own veterans

The negative reviews here are worth reading closely, because they're unusually self-aware rather than simply hostile. "I'm obviously in the minority here, I understand that," opens one representative review, going on to describe genuine confusion at the near-universal acclaim rather than anger about it. The core of this dissent, recurring across every year since launch, comes specifically from longtime fans of the original trilogy who miss its faster, more chaotic "button mashing mayhem" in favor of this entry's slower, more deliberate combat and heavier emphasis on puzzles and traversal. "I grew up playing the original God Of War games... button mashing mayhem," reads one such review, contrasting that directly with what they found here. This is a real, considered design debate about what the series should be, not a rejection of quality — several of these same reviewers explicitly credit the visuals, story and production values while still preferring the older combat feel.

A real, current Steam Deck problem

Separately, and worth flagging directly: reviewers across 2023 through 2025 report a documented memory leak that causes the game to crash on Steam Deck once RAM usage climbs to around 14GB during extended sessions, arguing this doesn't match what the official "Verified" compatibility badge implies. "Incredible game but SHOULD NOT BE STEAM DECK VERIFIED. There is a memory leak that causes the game to crash," reads a representative 2024 review — a specific, technical complaint distinct from the broader design debate above, and worth checking current status on if you're planning long handheld sessions.

Reading the completion data

With 37 tracked achievements, the completion curve reflects a well-paced, broadly accessible campaign. Early story milestones sit between 75% and 88%, showing the large majority of buyers make real progress through the main narrative. The rarest achievements, including full completion, fall to 6.5-8.2%, reflecting a smaller committed core pursuing everything the game offers beyond the central story.

9 out of 10. God of War stands as one of the most acclaimed reinventions in gaming, and its reception here is close to unanimous for good reason — the writing, presentation and clean PC port all earn their reputation directly. The score accounts for an honest, considered minority who prefer the original trilogy's different combat identity, and a real, ongoing Steam Deck memory-leak issue worth checking before a long handheld session. For nearly everyone else, this is as close to an essential purchase as this library gets.