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Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition
Developer Nightdive Studios, Westwood Studios
Blade Runner is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Interactive for Microsoft Windows, released in November 1997. The game is not a direct adaptation of the 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner but is instead a "sidequel", telling an original story, which runs parallel to the film's plot, occasionally intersecting with it. Set in 2019 Los Angeles, the game tells the… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
297 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
80
LovedLoved
152 positive · 38 negative
95% range 74–85%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 152 | 38 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 14 | 5 | 79 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 4 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
290 of 399 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
80% recommend · 152 yes, 37 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 189 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (492 of 659 positive).
Many reviewers criticize the Enhanced Edition's AI-upscaled graphics as blurry and smeared, often preferring the original. [1][2][3][4] Several players note the inclusion of the original game and a toggle to switch graphics, making the package worthwhile. [5][6][7][8]
Liked
- The original game is a classic with immersive atmosphere and story. [9][6][10]
- The package includes the original game and a restored content version. [1][5][7][11]
- A toggle lets players switch between enhanced and original graphics. [6][12][2][3]
- The game has multiple endings and randomized elements for replayability. [1][10][13]
Representative posts
- [15]
" loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life - anybody's life; my life." – Deckard If you ever played the original Blade Runner on PC, then you already know how good and ahead of its time it was. Unfortunately, this so called "Enhanced Edition" does almost nothing to justify the name. In fact, many players (myself included) feel it actively worsens the experience. With modern AI upscaling tech …
- [9]
A Review of Blade Runner (PC) By Max Payne The rain was falling. It always falls in Los Angeles, 2019. Same as it always falls in New York, whenever I close my eyes. Some things don't change. Some things never do. I came to this city the way I come to most places—chasing ghosts. The disc loaded. The screen flickered. And suddenly I was McCoy, another detective with a dead partner and a bottle of something that …
- [1]
The state of this enhanced version is a joke. It looks like someone accidentally smeared butter on every sprite and background, and to make matters worse, it’s plagued with numerous game-breaking bugs. It doesn’t seem like Nightdive is making any effort to address these issues. Fortunately, the package includes the classic version of the game, along with a variant that has some cut content restored. Just play that …
- [6]
One of the most underated classic point & click adventures of the 90's with top notch story, writing and faithful atmosphere. This remaster is very good, original game is included, the remaster has a filter toggle and quality of life enhancements. But the best thing is that this fantastic game has now been saved from the pits of oblivion, you couldnt even buy it and play it legally before. Great stuff.
- [4]
Please note that I'm recommending the game itself, not the Enhanced Edition. The Enhanced Edition is a rushed mess that was the result of a lack of QA testers due to covid and ND wanting to release the game around the film's 40th anniversary. While it seems most of the bugs from release have been fixed, there is still a bunch of small things wrong with the gameplay, plus their method of smudging out the rough edges …
Summarised from 34 of the 276 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition sits at 80% positive across 190 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Blade Runner received generally positive reviews. It held an aggregate score of 77% on GameRankings, based on sixteen reviews. Next Generation rated it four stars out of five, and stated that "the game's shortcomings seem irrelevant as the journey that Ridley Scott and Harrison Ford began 15 years ago is brought to an entirely new end at the player's command. All movie-licensed game publishers should take note." GamePro likewise judged that the game's strongest points are its faithfulness to the book and movie and the way the ending is determined by the player's actions throughout the game. They also complimented the cinematics, dialogue, and "riveting plot and slick style", though they…
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Reactions
60 of 297 · most liked firstGames to Play Before You Die 💀 #️⃣4️⃣ SNATCHER (SEGA CD, Saturn, etc.) Hideo Kojima's 'Blade Runner' inspired masterpiece has unmatched atmosphere, humor, and a compelling mystery. It's also downright disturbing and creepy... It's a sci-fi graphic adventure game that you simply shouldn't miss. 🤖
neutral · AI labelView post →Sometimes I fall asleep to the sound of the Blade Runner Deckard apartment and wake up thinking I could make an excellent detective game in that world. I would not know who to ask about making it, it’s just a pleasant thought that it could exist outside of the old point and click /VR experiment
neutral · AI labelView post →" loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life - anybody's life; my life." – Deckard If you ever played the original Blade Runner on PC, then you already know how good and ahead of its time it was. Unfortunately, this so called "Enhanced Edition" does almost nothing to justify the name. In fact, many players (myself included) feel it actively worsens the experience. With modern AI upscaling tech readily available, you’d expect at least the backgrounds or character sprites to get…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A valiant attempt to bring a Blade Runner game to home computer a few years after the release of the 1982 movie - 12 years before Westwood's adaptation. Chase down rogue replicants on the pretty neat looking map and then engage them in a run-and-gun section. 📺: Blade Runner, CRL, 1985 (C64)
neutral · AI labelView post →New TTRPG review. Today we're looking at Blade Runner by Free League. It's an investigative game where the PCs are all cops solving replicant-related crimes and exploring what it is that makes us human. youtu.be/0RhexbJCjHY
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't need to see my reflection everywhere. Because I'm not everywhere. But I immediately recognize an absence when I SHOULD be somewhere. Avengers. Justice League. Star Trek. Star Wars. Game of Thrones (depending on the land). Blade Runner. Cyberpunk. GTA. God of War (again depending on region).
neutral · AI labelView post →TLDR: There is a rough gem here. I wish the remaster had done it the service it deserved. General Thoughts/Overview: This is an odd review, because I really think you should play this game, but I really can’t recommend it to anyone. Blade Runner Enhanced Edition (BREE) handles like a rodent extremely unhappy to be handled. That is to say, there is a lot of hissing, a lot of thrashing, it will try and bite you, and it will struggle to free itself from your grasp the second you take your…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →BSG Scattered Hopes, The Expanse Osiris Reborn, Star Wars ZCOM, Alien Isolation 2, the canceled-or-not Blade Runner Annapurna game, the T2 arcade game... Games are a great media to use a franchise in a new way. 🖖
neutral · AI labelView post →The way people talk about whether LLMs can "think" (I have no skin in this game, don't get mad at me) is _so_ similar to the empathy test they do near the start of the first Blade Runner. Feels like we'll just keep heading down that road for a bit.
neutral · AI labelView post →Blade Runner is one of those adventure games that I somehow missed when it originally came out, and I've been hearing for years how good it is, but in reality... it's not. It's got all the stuff people hated about adventure games back in the day - events that can result in insta-death, "puzzles" that don't make sense in the narrative, countless ways to soft-lock your game... It's so infuriating to just be getting into the vibe of the game, only to loop back round every location, speak to every…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Arkane Studios nearly worked on Thief 4 or a Blade Runner game before they made 'Dishonored'. 9:30 youtu.be/ZVq0af9DwPU
neutral · AI labelView post →Buggy and Blurry The original is one of my all-time favourite adventure games that I've played countless times over the years. This "Enhanced Edition" is so deeply flawed in many many ways. Buggy, with choices seemingly forgotten and the wrong ending occurring, animations playing at double speed, and graphical artifacts in countless scenes. Some are infuriating such as respawing hostile NPCs that, once dealt with, the scene's navigation doesn't work so you have to return where you came and,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A Review of Blade Runner (PC) By Max Payne The rain was falling. It always falls in Los Angeles, 2019. Same as it always falls in New York, whenever I close my eyes. Some things don't change. Some things never do. I came to this city the way I come to most places—chasing ghosts. The disc loaded. The screen flickered. And suddenly I was McCoy, another detective with a dead partner and a bottle of something that promised forgetting. The game understood me. We understood each other. The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"[ZOS game] was a third-person, online looter-shooter, not unlike Destiny. It had a sci-fi, noir aesthetic - similar to Blade Runner - and placed a heavy emphasis on vertical movement." The game impressed Xbox executives earlier this year. Now it's cancelled. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
neutral · AI labelView post →Supermassive Games - known for releases such as Until Dawn and The Quarry - has reportedly cancelled an unannounced Blade Runner game. bit.ly/4jLZYIe
neutral · AI labelView post →The Sprawl itself is a gargantuan cyberpunk megacity, once you get a couple of areas deep, the sense of scale this game is playing with is immense, the environments are jaw dropping in places, and it's definitely invoking Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell, so the visuals hit all that much harder.
neutral · AI labelView post →The A.I. upscaled "enhanced" graphics is terrible. It makes those crisp, pixelated graphics turn into blurry, smudged, undetailed graphics. Not only that, but they didn't enhance the 3D models. So any 3D object (characters) are still pixelated when having the enhanced graphics enabled. The cutscenes are terrible too, again removing detailed textures from the prerendered cutscenes and making them blury. They do give you the option to switch between original and "enhanced" though.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Enhanced my ass.. Basically a crappy re-release.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I kinda wish Blade Runner had more adventure game in it but it DOES have the most impressive pre-rendered backgrounds with animated elements outside of the Resident Evil remake. stunning game
neutral · AI labelView post →Saw a comment on Wetrunner asking "what was wrong with" calling it Petrunner and making it a Blade Runner riff. I mean, that would be a different game for one thing
neutral · AI labelView post →40 years ago, CRL was advertising Blade Runner. Not a game-of-the-movie I'll have you know, but a "video game interpretation of the film score by Vangelis." It was even worse than it sounds. Licensing bobbins, basically, and an absolute steaming sack o' shite.
negative · AI labelView post →I want a Blade Runner game in the style of the new Indiana Jones game - let's also get Troy Baker to do Deckard's voice - maybe a prequel to the OG film 😇🙏🏻
neutral · AI labelView post →How do people describe our game: - Fallout without power armors - Retro futuristic western game - Blade Runner with cool hats
neutral · AI labelView post →A truly bizarre product. If I were reviewing the original Blade Runner game, then this would be positive. But calling this an "enhanced" edition defies any reasonable definition of "enhanced". There are no changes to the character models, an area everyone would agree could vastly improve the presentation of the game. They are left untouched and still the same unsightly stack of pixels they were before. And then there's the background. There was no attempt at upscaling, unlike what you'll find…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →That game was amazing back it the day, and I'm greatful that you can still play it on modern system with this re-release. That said, the enhanced edition just AI upscales original movie sequences and scenes. For some reason movies are in 60 fps while the scenes are more like 24 fps or lower, which creates a disconnect never present in the original. Upscaled image is also very blurry, so it's actually better not to use any filtering at all. Mouse speed in the enhanced edition is lower than in…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →According to Insider Gaming, an unannounced Blade Runner game which was in development at Supermassive Games has been cancelled. insider-gaming.com/unannounced-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Getting to know me through media My (current) all time faves: Game - Cyberpunk 2077 Movie - Blade Runner 2049 Show - Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Album - Origa: Era of Queens
neutral · AI labelView post →Supermassive Games (Until Dawn, The Quarry) has reportedly cancelled an unannounced Blade Runner game. The single-player game was titled Blade Runner: Time To Live, and according to Insider Gaming, it was going to be a "character focused, cinematic, action adventure" release.
neutral · AI labelView post →Until Dawn developer reportedly cancels Blade Runner game set for PS6, next Xbox www.eurogamer.net/until-dawn-d...
neutral · AI labelView post →EXCLUSIVE - Unannounced Blade Runner Game Canceled At Supermassive Games Our @mikestrawmedia.com has full details on what the game was and its development timeline insider-gaming.com/unannounced-...
neutral · AI labelView post →A bit slap dash on the old make up game for today’s stream of Blade Runner but damn - maybe I do need to try brighter colours in future.
neutral · AI labelView post →I would gave the game a recommendation if it wasn't for a gamebreaking bug in Act 4 - can't progress the game any further because of police spawning and killing me while I am stuck in a cutscene. Otherwise it ran fine, had some minor issues like graphical bugs or items pop-up going too fast.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Folks the free CFB newsletter is here, today featuring @espnbillc.bsky.social and the latest on both the video game and Master P, college GM. And no, I've still never seen Blade Runner 1, but have watched Blade Runner 2 like four times. Subscribe today
neutral · AI labelView post →The state of this enhanced version is a joke. It looks like someone accidentally smeared butter on every sprite and background, and to make matters worse, it’s plagued with numerous game-breaking bugs. It doesn’t seem like Nightdive is making any effort to address these issues. Fortunately, the package includes the classic version of the game, along with a variant that has some cut content restored. Just play that one. The game itself remains a true gem. It’s definitely worth playing for fans…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was beta tester of this adventure game gem by my friend @cosmicvoidonline.com! 😎 Lovely #pixelart graphics with a Blade Runner like plot! Check it out here! 👇👇👇 #game #indiegame #indie
positive · AI labelView post →#sciencefiction #cars #filmsky Syd Mead's "Spinner" flying car concept for Blade Runner (1982) and later "replicated" for Soldier (1998) Blade Runner video game (1997) Blade Runner 2049 (2017) The Fifth Element (1997) and the Star Wars prequel trilogy. bladerunner.fandom.com/wiki/Spinner
neutral · AI labelView post →I will forever be seeking games that feel like this. I played the enhanced version, and toggled the old graphics a lot because of the image upscale making text difficult to read. Absolutely wonderful experience for someone new to point and click adventures.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the most underated classic point & click adventures of the 90's with top notch story, writing and faithful atmosphere. This remaster is very good, original game is included, the remaster has a filter toggle and quality of life enhancements. But the best thing is that this fantastic game has now been saved from the pits of oblivion, you couldnt even buy it and play it legally before. Great stuff.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition is terrible in multiple ways including missing content and poorly remastered graphics but thankfully the classic and classic with cut content is also included making it worth a purchase at a deep discount price. The old point and click game was basically the pinnacle of it's genre when it was released in 1997, and beside the bad graphics and somewhat unintuitive puzzles, provides a very cool detective pixel hunt that has a ton of movie lore. I enjoyed figuring out…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I went and visited the library as a teenager to get some books to read. After reading a couple of them, including Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six I found out that the library had a video game section where I rented games like: Thief: The Dark Project and Journeyman Project but also a little game that carried the name of a movie I watched around that time and one that I happened to like in particular, this game was named Blade Runner. This was about 23 years ago. I played the game and seeing how it…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition is an absolute masterpiece released in 1997 by one of my all-time favourite video game developers Westwood Studios. They developed critically acclaimed game series such as Command & Conquer and Lands of Lore. This Enhanced version offers improved visuals on the original. Or does it? Many will probably disagree as although the graphics and cutscenes look improved and cleaner, it looks darker and sometimes harder to see clues. Fortunately, the game allows you to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I only bought it so that I could enjoy the "Original edition with restored content" in multiple languages and switch between them at will. I have never even run the "Enhanced Edition", so I can't comment on Nightdive's remaster. What follows is a no-spoilers review of the 1997 game. The game is excellent. Well, actually, it's groundbreaking by 1997's standards and good by today's standards. The main selling point, to me, is the immersion. It was easy for me (almost unavoidable, really) to get…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →From what I've played, the "Enhanced Edition" is alright now because they updated it a bit. Even if you don't like the Enhanced Edition though, it includes the original game in it's entirety alongside the Enhanced Edition.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Review: The Economy of Solitude: Reevaluating Blade Runner 2049 for 2026.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is a lazy "enhanced" edition. The backgrounds and cutscenes have been run through an AI filter to upscale and remove some of the pixelation, and the menus have been reworked. Neither are noticeable enough to make any huge difference. The graphics don't look more detailed than they did before because there hasn't been any reworking of the assets, and the menus actually look worse than the original. The most egregious graphical issue in the original were the low res voxel-based characters…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think Blade Runner would be a good game show. Contestant number one. You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden...
neutral · AI labelView post →What's the point releasing a game as an enhanced edition when it is not better than the original in any way? Original game is a classic, though. Play that.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This week @shirokumahi.me and I meet a Real Movie Character and go to Real Movie Locations, because we have to tie Blade Runner the Game back into Blade Runner the Movie somehow... Everything happens so much in Blade Runner, come watch! youtu.be/XpClNi0QPo0?...
neutral · AI labelView post →A fantastic point and click classic that was way ahead of its time. The pre-rendered backgrounds impress even today and it's a really interesting story with 13 different endings and many possibilities. Blade Runner spans 5 acts and takes about 6-8 hours to finish. It's not an easy game by any means - sometimes you may get completely stuck for long periods and the way forward may seem illogical and almost impossible to discover without a guide. Most of the game is a fascinating experience just…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tonight I’m mostly playing Oelsen Bakker in @frazermac.bsky.social Blade Runner game with @sprandell.bsky.social and Seb
neutral · AI labelView post →Got stuck in chapter 3 , may be a bug because i searched for answers and seems like some characters don't appear at the location they have to. After 3 hours of searching all locations for several times , i surrendered. Also got no opportunity to use Mein Kampf test until chapter 3 . And then there were no explanation of how to use that test and for what is. Also why is this an Enhanced Edition?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Buggy as all get-out. I've probably played the game half over just because I've had some crash or loop, and I save every 10-15 minutes anyways. Really disappointed.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Huh, I wonder if this game owes any debts to Blade Runner Probably not
neutral · AI labelView post →I remember the first time I saw this movie as a child with my mother who has since passed away (may she rest in peace) and I was surprised by the beauty of its soundtrack and the atmosphere. I was just a little kid but I was immediately hooked by this movie. When I saw this game I didn't hesitate to buy it and you know why...because every time I watch the movie Blade Runner or play the game a part of me is reunited with my mother. Now for the game review: What can be said about a game based…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't bother with the enhance graphics, it looks much better without the blurry smear filter. Luckily the Q Button lets you toggle anytime between great quality and enhanced version. Other than that, it is the long lost Blade Runner game by Westwood. A mighty fine point and click adventure with an eerie atmossphere. Much recommended!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I never played the original version, so it was hard for me to tell what was actually enhanced. I could still see the appeal and understand why people would have considered it impressive at the time it first came out. Playing it now, though, it felt slow and somewhat lifeless. I did not really connect with the characters, and the voice acting did not convey much emotion to me. It is fine overall, but not something I would recommend. I would still give it a thumbs up, mainly because I can…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the three main video game genres in the 90s were Blade Runner, Streets of Fire and Laputa
neutral · AI labelView post →While a Blade Runner TV show is coming soon, another game is in development.
neutral · AI labelView post →That's nearly the entire range of acting skill. Dave Bautista stole the whole movie in Blade Runner 2049 and he was only in it for like 5 minutes. The Rock has played himself for 42 movies in a row. Apples and oranges
neutral · AI labelView post →Anyway, rambling shoutout to the Blade Runner VR game in which I spent hours being awed while in this game world for the first time. Flying around in a spinner, looking out the window... It was limited, but man, was it awesome.
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