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Flashback is a science fiction platform video game remake of the original 1992 Flashback. The game was developed by the original game designer, Paul Cuisset, with his studio, VectorCell, and published by Ubisoft. The game was released on 21 August 2013 on Xbox Live Arcade. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
260 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 6, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
44
Mixed
81 positive · 104 negative
95% range 37–51%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 81 | 104 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 9 | 1 | 53 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Lemmy * | 2 | 0 | 2 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
120 of 242 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
45% recommend · 85 yes, 106 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 191 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (327 of 555 positive).
Some players praise the remake for its nostalgic value and updated graphics. [1][2][3] Others criticize the controls, forced Uplay integration, and lack of challenge. [4][5][6] A few reviewers note the game is decent on sale but inferior to the original. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [1]
By playing Flashback I was hoping to get a nostalgia trip and a happy reunion with Conrad. After six hours I wouldn't say it's the best game I've played, not either a game I put a lot of time in, but I liked getting flashbacks to a bygone era. The steering is more action oriented than the original and the story is changed a bit. I bought the game on sale on Steam and the low price justifies the six hours of gaming …
- [21]
Flashback, published by Ubisoft and developed by VectorCell under the guidance of original creator Paul Cuisset, is a modern remake of the iconic 1992 cinematic platformer Flashback: The Quest for Identity. The game attempts to reintroduce the classic’s gripping sci-fi story and intricate platforming mechanics to a contemporary audience with updated graphics, smoother animations, and quality-of-life improvements. …
- [4]
As a fan of the original game on the SNES (or Genesis, depending on your choice of console back then), I'm honestly pretty disappointed in this remake. The character's controls are completely different from the original game, which were slower and more deliberate and catered more towards platforming and careful combat, and yet the environments and enemy design did not change in order to reflect the change in …
- [6]
As a remake to the classic cinematic platformer, this 2013 version of Flashback is… just not very good, especially when compared to the most recent rerelease of the original. Whereas the original is still timeless and has its charming in its simplicity, the look and feel of this version is incredibly bland, with mostly forgettable settings, stilted dialogue, and out-there story twists that just complicates things. …
- [15]
Flashback is a remake of an old time classic. Sadly, I can't recommend this. And it's not because I'm a fan of the original who's hating on new things which are introduced in this remake. The new controls system and levelups are fine with me. But what really bugs me about this remake is it's technical side, the game graphics are blurry, the gameplay is bugged. I stopped after 30th attempt at finishing stealth …
Summarised from 34 of the 238 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
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Players who liked Flashback talk about nostalgic tribute to the original; those who didn't talk about botched controls and glitchy platforming. Which matters more to you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The PC and Xbox 360 versions received "mixed" reviews, while the PlayStation 3 version received "unfavourable" reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 260 · most liked firstMany many moons ago, I came across a glorious website called @rainwave.cc . 24/7 video game music, covers, remixes AND chiptune? For free?! Sign me the hell up! Flashback to yesterday, and I saw the name on Reddit. They still exist. They have an Android app. Bye-bye Spotify 👋
neutral · AI labelView post →Flashback to me, playing SNES games as a kid: Gosh, this game is so fun. And this character is so cool! I like them so much, I dunno... I feel like... I feel like... I gotta turn into them! ...Wait that's a weird thought. ESPECIALLY IF THEY HAVE PAWS. WHOA OKAY WHAT THE FUC-
neutral · AI labelView post →Day 733 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing. Today‘s game is Assassin’s Creed 2. I know I said it last time but this game is so gorgeous for its era. I will state this again too, that I am using ReShade to ditch the piss filter, but with some color stabbed into it, it looks good. I especially love the field areas outside the cities. They feel so much more lively than what AC 1 had. In a way they remind me of Oblivion and how its cities look on the outside.…
neutral · AI labelView post →Flashback to when the party encountered a random goblin named Scrod Weaselfingers. #ttrpg #dnd #rpg #meme
neutral · AI labelView post →Flashback to when the party encountered a random goblin named Scrod Weaselfingers. #ttrpg #dnd #rpg #meme #ttrpgsky #ttrpgcommunity
neutral · AI labelView post →Flashback near the end of the game my mom and my best friend texting LMAO
neutral · AI labelView post →Today I'll be starting my first "Flashback Fridays" series on Twitch, playing a game I've wanted to play for YEARS! Sonic Adventure! (ON A DREAMCAST TOO!) 🌀 Live from 1pm GMT! twitch.tv/professorjuice
neutral · AI labelView post →Flashback Friday - Show me Thunder and I’ll show you Snow This week’s flashback features Jon Snow (from Game of Thrones) & ‘Fat’ Thor (from Avengers: Endgame).
neutral · AI labelView post →📖 Bytes of Game Ads 📺 The first CD-ROM game in a cartridge! What a, ahem, flashback to an absolute classic. After all, it's like putting your Genesis into warp drive at a cinematic 24 frames per second. Flashback is still such a good game.
positive · AI labelView post →You will like my indie game if you played these games: - Prince Of Persia 🤺 - Flashback 🔫 - Another World / Out Of This World ✋ 65% OFF on 🖤Steam: t.co/ZxUvaWSBxc ❤️Switch: t.co/3NvEmBQn7o #gamedev #indiedev #LUNARK
neutral · AI labelView post →Royal Flashback> 2016 Invictus Game closing ceremony before they both headed to England to meet a Queen. 🍺 #HarryandMeghan #Royals 🤺
neutral · AI labelView post →Flashback: November 28, 2024 Baby Ada’s favorite game was to bite her brother Byron’s tail and try to drag him around. She was relentless! #dogs #dogsofbluesky #samoyeds
neutral · AI labelView post →The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] ($12.74) - a remaster of a game that never actually existed. incredibly stylish sci-fi platforming following in the footsteps of games like Prince of Persia and Flashback that's deeply moody and has a killer soundtrack. store.steampowered.com/app/963450/T...
neutral · AI labelView post →It's a new Flashback Friday game! I can't stop thinking about Resident Evil, so I'm going to play my favourite in the series! I usually play as Jill, and I've never finished the game as Chris... So I'll be doing a Chris playthrough! LIVE FROM 1PM GMT! www.twitch.tv/professorjuice
neutral · AI labelView post →As a heads up the .nes ROM files sourced from this console are floating around out there. The main Atari Flashback ROM with the menu currently only works in specific emulators like NintendulatorNRS but the individual game ROMs are more compatible. Have fun playing Atari on Nintendo.
neutral · AI labelView post →By playing Flashback I was hoping to get a nostalgia trip and a happy reunion with Conrad. After six hours I wouldn't say it's the best game I've played, not either a game I put a lot of time in, but I liked getting flashbacks to a bygone era. The steering is more action oriented than the original and the story is changed a bit. I bought the game on sale on Steam and the low price justifies the six hours of gaming fun (completed it on Normal difficulty). I don't think I'll be playing through…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No idea why anyone is giving this a bad review then claiming they were "a big fan of the original". I suppose they were remembering it better than it actually was, kinda like when I tried to rewatch Blakes 7 a while ago. Loved it whilst it was on, but now I realise it was utter cack. Anyway, to me, this is a fitting tribute to a game I have very fond memories of. Its still fun to play and a damn site prettier than the original. Yes, there's too many signs telling you what to do, but the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As a fan of the original game on the SNES (or Genesis, depending on your choice of console back then), I'm honestly pretty disappointed in this remake. The character's controls are completely different from the original game, which were slower and more deliberate and catered more towards platforming and careful combat, and yet the environments and enemy design did not change in order to reflect the change in controls. I found myself constantly running myself off ledges due to not being able to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →FLASHBACK to November 2017 - 24 hour game of RuneQuest of charity event. Borderlands reaching an exciting point - a crawl through the newtling capital of Prax.
neutral · AI labelView post →Flashback to the last time Mike Conley made a dagger 3 in a second-round road playoff game www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eOq...
neutral · AI labelView post →It's a cinematic platforming action kind of day with Delphine's classic, Flashback. 🔥 One of my favourite first levels of any game. The evocative techno-jungles of a terraformed Titan in 2142.
positive · AI labelView post →Here in Edmonton! Flashback to when @dateblaire.bsky.social went to the Oilers game 🧡
neutral · AI labelView post →How to kill an otherwise great old game? Put it through the ubisoft's connect bullsh1t.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Flashback - Such a good game 😍
positive · AI labelView post →Requires an ubisoft account that most times wont work. How fun.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Flashback: The Story Of The Naked Gun Game That Never Was www.timeextension.com/features/fla...
neutral · AI labelView post →Flashback Friday: Gus the Cat (R.I.P. many years ago) walks across my board game.
neutral · AI labelView post →A nice attempt at a remake, but the original (1993) is still better in most aspects, especially gameplay. If you can get past the pixel graphics and low amount of dialogue, I recommend you play the original one and just skip this one.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love it when a Roguelite Deckbuilding Cars Game gives you the choice between “Deal X damage to targets below Y% HP”, “Block 20, Cascade, Bleeding, Ironheart, Flashback”, or “Draw 2 cards for free” the card draw is almost always the best option. like in general
neutral · AI labelView post →Quick shout-out for Lunark! Disappointed in the disappointing Flashback remake and awful Flashback 2? This game is basically what should have gotten the time in the spotlight.
negative · AI labelView post →This updated version is fantastic. I remember playing the original, and this does a pretty good job of staying true to that version. The graphics are up to date, and the gameplay is actually fun. As usual I wish we could avoid the need for crap like Uplay, but as long as the game works I hardly care.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Way to crap on the 1993 game with botched controls, rushed production and really pointless leveling system that does nothing to help with the bullet sponge enemies you face or the glitchy platforming.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Flashback to twelve months ago when I met up with Captain Cool (@pjwilks.bsky.social) before the Celtic game.
neutral · AI labelView post →As a remake to the classic cinematic platformer, this 2013 version of Flashback is… just not very good, especially when compared to the most recent rerelease of the original. Whereas the original is still timeless and has its charming in its simplicity, the look and feel of this version is incredibly bland, with mostly forgettable settings, stilted dialogue, and out-there story twists that just complicates things. Things like the levelling system and upgrades seem incredibly tacked on, while…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the silhouette Dylan had in the Flashback Fault was shoulder-length femme cut and in the first game Dylan rambled about how in one dimension they were a girl called Jesse Dylan Faden. It's way more fun and interesting to assume the split self just decided they were a boy actually
positive · AI labelView post →Listen to me. In the 2000s I would sometimes even pass up playing my PS2 in favor of booting up the Atari Flashback with its (iirc) capable port of Warlords complete with 2-player co-op The game is satisfyingly crunchy and responsive in SUCH an evergreen way idc if you "don't play old games" DO IT
neutral · AI labelView post →This little historical nugget was part of the NYT's Flashback game.
neutral · AI labelView post →Amiga fan or not, this remake of the classic Flashback is very good one!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm not too big on the original Flashback but this game has made me appreciate what the original did well a whole lot more. Flashback 2013 has none of the redeeming qualities of the original or any real redeeming qualities in general It's Just a cheap XBLA "remake" that tries to "modernise" what didn't need modernising while missing the point of what the original was entirely. It often directly copies level layouts from the original despite the fact the two games play completely differently…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A Decent Remake of the original which I played on the Amiga, I don't get what people are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about, yeah you need to install Uplay to be honest its pretty unobtrusive and only starts when you actually start the game up. Ok, so maybe its a bit redundant to have both steam and uplay as drm but its not such a big deal as people are making out (waah, waah, Uplay, Ubisoft evil, paranoia etc.) Comes with a free copy of the 1993 original as well, what more can you ask for?
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Back in my highschool days the Sega Vs. Nintendo war was serious. Flashback was one of those games that was simply amazing. Played it non-stop till I beat it. Then played it again. And a few more times. There is a lot of nostalgia with this game, and I love the re-imagining of this current version. Even just watching the opening sequence the other day when I booted it up for the first time brought back memories. If you appreciate an old-school feel, puzzle adventure, this game is a must
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →THEY GOT A FLASHBACK MOXXIE STANDEE FOR THE GAME ALONGSIDE FLASHBACK MILLIE????
neutral · AI labelView post →Today's NYT's Flashback game had this little nugget:
neutral · AI labelView post →First angry review that i have ever done. Bought this game when it was first released and played it fine, now ive just tried to download and play it again and i have to have UPlay.......ok....UPLAY says that my game key is invalid and so now i cant play my game. great job.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was going to review this game but sadly I erased my memory of the experience and stored it in a holocube which I purposefully lost... I'm guessing it was bad though.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The ININ Nintendo Switch game sale is back at VGP! $19.99 / 14 USD each 💿 tinyurl.com/5d52c3p8 Star Renegades Cotton Reboot Turrican Flashback Air Twister Dariusburst EX+ Another Chronicle + More... 📦All orders ship in a box ➕Enjoy Free Shipping when you spend $75 / 55 USD
neutral · AI labelView post →OH MY GOD I JUST REALIZED IT HAS FLASHBACK BECAUSE TERRA RECALLS THIS AS A FLASHBACK IN THE GAME AHHHHHHHHH
neutral · AI labelView post →Stunning!!! Truly stunning!!!!!!! This is a text-book, step-by-step tutorial in how to completely destroy a classic, original, ground-breaking masterpiece--which the original, 1993 Flashback clearly is. The team behind this MUST be hung for treason (or, at least, never be allowed to make a computer game again)! Terrible!!! Just terrible!!!!!! If you buy this, you deserve all the curses that Allah--the 'god' of 'peace'--shall surely bestow upon you, effendi. Terrible.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Off the top of my head. Flashback on Sega Genesis is one of my all time favs and a very frequent replay game for me
positive · AI labelView post →Don't let the flashy colors and lighting fool you. This game is a crappy attempt at rebooting a classic. Though the original may not have necessarily aged well,the classic is still more compatible with modern hardware than this 2013 steaming pile. Just get the classic. The original is a better way to prepare for Flashback 2.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't buy this. This game is the most generic, unfun remake of a game I have ever played. The original was rather unusual and the art style worked for it and I still remember it with a level of fondness. In this new one its just trying to flex graphics. Forcing a lot of unwanted girlfriend drama for the sake of plot, rather than a guy trying to thwart an alien invasion. Never has my excitement and interest been so effectively turned to distain and disgust. Play the original, not this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One word: Uplay
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Flashback is a remake of an old time classic. Sadly, I can't recommend this. And it's not because I'm a fan of the original who's hating on new things which are introduced in this remake. The new controls system and levelups are fine with me. But what really bugs me about this remake is it's technical side, the game graphics are blurry, the gameplay is bugged. I stopped after 30th attempt at finishing stealth mission. The stealth executions just don't work, Conrad just does his takedown…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] ($11.24) - a remaster of a game that never actually existed. wildly stylish sci-fi platforming that follows in the footsteps of the original Prince of Persia and Flashback. deeply moody and has a killer soundtrack. store.steampowered.com/app/963450/T...
neutral · AI labelView post →First bug appeared after 10 min gaming - character stuck still and ignored all WASD keys.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Needs Uplay to run. Not a faithful recreation of the classic. Lots of bling, but a bit too late to the party
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was actually a fan of the original game and this rebuild until Ubisoft locked everyone into Uplay. Now, the game is unplayable and Ubisoft can't be bothered with support.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →just what flashback needed, leveling up and rpg elements and witty banter
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →loved the original growing up.......this was a let down. not the worst game in the world but not great either/ 56/100
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Flashback to when I made an amateur platformer #pixelart #game #itsuckedsonobodygetstoplayit
neutral · AI labelView post →
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