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Instinct
Developer Newtonic Studio, Digital Spray Studios
INSTINCT encompasses horror on a whole new level — experience the chilling gameplay and story through the eyes of three different playable characters in this FPS game! From the Steam store page
111 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Steam reviews, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 3, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
72
Fresh
23 positive · 9 negative
95% range 55–84%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluesky * | 14 | 3 | 50 |
| Steam reviews | 23 | 9 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 6 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
30 of 40 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
At a glance
Instinct is a 2024 action adventure video game, from Newtonic Studio and Digital Spray Studios.
- 100 people have posted about this game on Bluesky, Steam reviews, Lemmy, Mastodon
- posts span Oct 18, 2024 to Nov 3, 2026
- 72% of 32 Steam reviewers recommend it (their own thumbs)
- Steam reviewers had played a median of 4 h when they wrote
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Instinct sits at 72% positive across 32 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Reactions
60 of 111 · most liked firstANNOUNCEMENT: Detective Instinct will be launching on Steam and Nintendo Switch... November 26th, 2025! 🤩 Uncover the story in this DS-inspired adventure game about a mysterious woman who goes missing on a train 🚃 Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/2689930/...
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ve been tuning competitive games for 15 years, and I’ve come to one inevitable conclusion. Want to know why people loved our patches on Killer Instinct and Rumbleverse so much? My hour long deep dive premieres tonight at 10pm EST on Game Design Direct! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCPQ...
neutral · AI labelView post →KILLER INSTINCT RARE LIMITED 1995 (Captured on Game Boy Pocket)
neutral · AI labelView post →Killer Instinct: Anniversary Edition is $9.89 on XBL buff.ly/41BMk4U also on Game Pass Standard
neutral · AI labelView post →TooManyGames 2026 Indie Game Showcase Award nominations for "Best Visual Novel": - of the Devil (nth Circle Studios) - DIGITAL EXORCIST (COOL BEANS PRODUCTIONS) - Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (Armonica) - Rain98 (C#4R4CT3R) toomanygames.com/toomanygames...
neutral · AI labelView post →Here's an easter egg found in the fighting game Power Instinct. Located on Thin Nen's stage is a portrait of Otane high up on the wall. If she lands her transformation, the portrait will also change to her younger self.
neutral · AI labelView post →WE'RE BACK, BABY! For half a year I have been working on a love letter to a love letter. 2025's indie point and click adventure game, Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved spoke to me in ways games just don't anymore. Check out my new vid: youtu.be/qMorKzjEoUg
positive · AI labelView post →ONE DAY. Detective Instinct will be released on Nintendo Switch and Steam in less than 24 hours 😮 Thank you all for joining us on this pre-release journey, and I hope you dig the game we made. We'll see you tomorrow!
neutral · AI labelView post →May 9 1997, Killer Instinct Gold debuted on the N64 in Australia! The Saberman series of games is the inspiration for Sabrewulf in the Killer Instinct games, specifically the game Knight Lore! The series was developed/published by Ultimate Play the Game who eventually evolved into Rare Inc!
neutral · AI labelView post →My first art of 2026 is here! "Lord of Shadows" ft. Gargos from Killer Instinct! 😈 Another fighting game I'm really interested in, I'm hoping to try it out someday. It's a great game to watch in the meantime! #art #gargos #killerinstinct
neutral · AI labelView post →Killer Instinct - two-page Game Boy ad (1995) #retro #art #gaming #KillerInstinct
neutral · AI labelView post →The Detective Instinct OST is NOW AVAILABLE on Bandcamp and Steam! This release includes: - All 31 tracks from the game - 9 bonus tracks/demos - A liner notes booklet (English only) - 4 pieces of sheet music The 31 game tracks are also streaming on my YouTube channel! Links ⬇️
neutral · AI labelView post →I know "there's a Tetris game called Terror Instinct" is the forever god of insane video game subtitles but I feel like "there's a Beatmania game called DJ Troopers" deserves a spot high up on the pantheon
neutral · AI labelView post →Last night I finished Detective Instinct! Despite playtesting the game multiple times, I'm still left speechless whenever I reach the credits. My opinion is certainly biased, but I think Detective Instinct is a special game made with a lot of heart and love for the genre. I highly recommend it!
positive · AI labelView post →Just downloaded my copy of Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved on the Switch! Way back in 2023 I did some volunteer testing on this game and offered my feedback on some early builds. It's so impressive to see how polished the game looks now! Congrats @traindetective.bsky.social on the release!
positive · AI labelView post →Atomic Heart / Enchantment Under the Sea / Annihilation Instinct Mundfish. NO disclosure for in-game posters, some steam store assets, and in-game advertisement images. -y
neutral · AI labelView post →SURPRISE sale! Detective Instinct is currently 20% OFF on Switch/Switch 2 in the Americas and Europe! 😮 If you're looking for another character-driven mystery adventure game after playing the new Paranormasight, this might be the game for you 👁️ Links below:
neutral · AI labelView post →Invincible VS and the Avatar fighting game having different eras of Killer Instinct 2013 devs is so funny.
neutral · AI labelView post →Random Game Saturday! I didn't miss it! Killer Instinct for the Game Boy! While this port is just a little stripped back, I still think it's quite entertaining! Love it when devs brought a home console game to handhelds, despite the difference in tech.
positive · AI labelView post →a video game has never activated my Mom Instinct this hard before…. every maelle scene makes me weep
positive · AI labelView post →Killer Instinct Gold has been added to the Nintendo Switch Online retro library, making it the 39th N64 game to be added to the service in the West. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/killer-...
neutral · AI labelView post →9 years ago today, Killer Instinct (2013) was released on PC via Steam worldwide. It was developed by Iron Galaxy and published by Microsoft Game Studios.
neutral · AI labelView post →Messing around with Killer Instinct on Nintendo Game Boy on this #ScanlineSunday. This one is going into the "maybe if my Super Game Boy still works" pile, because man I could not get anything going in this game. Just got my ass handed to me by vague pixels every time. It's killer, alright 😔
negative · AI labelView post →They should make Killer Instinct 2013 again. Just make the same game and put it out again
positive · AI labelView post →Every puzzle game needs a Terror Instinct style subtitle. Puyo Puyo: Doomed Response Puzzle Bobble: Absolute Violence
neutral · AI labelView post →Killer Instinct - two-page Game Boy ad (1995).
neutral · AI labelView post →I absolutely adore Strategy First for bringing back those low budget, "as bad it's good", guilty pleasure, Euro-jank games to Steam. Please, continue what you are doing, SF! ----- Edited the review out to give it a thumbs-up, as the issues I mentioned originally were fixed in an official update. That's so awesome to see a publisher care and react to the feedback for a game some would consider shovelware. You are the best, Strategy First.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Robotron was able to make it into our Hall of Fame game case! Let’s all salute Killer Instinct Gold. A great game that just got bumped out. 🫡
positive · AI labelView post →If you see this, post a fighting game character! Fulgore from SNES Killer Instinct!
neutral · AI labelView post →New video in my project to beat EVERY N64 game. This is on Killer Instinct Gold! A great fighting game that I am just not very skilled at youtu.be/RQmuF8lcyGI
positive · AI labelView post →The tagline game of FATAL INSTINCT (1993) was strong.
neutral · AI labelView post →➭ Kong Survivor Instinct FULL GAME Walkthrough Gameplay PS5 (No Commentary) 🎮🕹️👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Dx...
neutral · AI labelView post →Instinct Category: FPS / Horror Year of release: 2007 Price: 9,75€ Playtime: 3 to 4 hours Story 5 Gameplay 6 Atmosphere 7 Graphics 6 Weapons 6 Soundtrack 6 Enemies 6 Voice Acting 5 Horror 6 Level Design 5 Rating 58 Positive + Cheap Price + Weapons + Czech Language and Voice Acting + Atmosphere + Runs perfectly fine (for the most part) + No Bugs + Cutscenes Negative - + Story - - Game is too short - Human AI - Outdated graphics for time - Ending Conclusion Instict is well…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An old Ukrainian fps game and it's not as bad as the critics say. The enemy soldiers and zombies are dumb, but the ragdoll physics make shooting them fun. Only once I was stuck wondering where to go, so the level design is pretty straightforward and competent. On normal it's a forgiving and relaxed experience giving you plenty of ammo and health but will sometimes kill you with sudden explosions. It's all around average, except that you can't understand a damn thing without a translation.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →normal day in russia
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The latest patch has resolved my main issue with the game. The lighting effects appears to be fixed now. ------- I would wait for bug fixes. I compared the steam version to a Japanese digital release in English I played last year. The steam version appears to have bugs not present in that release. Audio stuttering, enabling vsync in the menu fixed it for me* There is a near gamebreaking bug in the second level. the game went pitch dark once the zombies appeared, it is not supposed to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →HBM is only usable with chips co-designed for it, packaged on an interposer with microscopic traces. An enthusiast is not doing anything useful with it unless they own a few TSMC assembly plants. The CPU modules can be tricky, too. *** Now, *some* enthusiasts are already hacking. Go to the Level 1 Tech forums, and you’ll find a group trying to reverse engineer AMD Instinct GPUs designed for server motherboards, dealing with locked firmware, soldering stuff, you name it. …But you probably…
neutral · AI labelView post →A fun You Are Empty-like that's low on brains but high on 2000s rigidbody physics and goofy zombie ragdolls, and aggressive weapon recoil that would make Counterstrike say "hold up that's too much recoil"
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I remember teaching a young lady, many years ago(30?), to play Killer Instinct and Mortal Kombat, took her a week to beat everyone but me, took her a month to be a toss up who would win between us, no one would fight either of us at that point. Had another friend, woman my age, that loved Warcraft 2, Star Craft, and I think it was an isometric Fall out or some other tactical game from 30 years ago. Hell, my gf plays Minecraft and Elder Scrolls Online. She runs 3 or 4 ESO guilds that are mostly…
neutral · AI labelView post →It turns playing video games with your friends is awesome and Killer Instinct is an awesome video game with many cool and unique characters that I love playing with my friends
positive · AI labelView post →♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ i never thought i see this on steam this game is truly hidden gem just get it when it now finally works on modern operating systems too
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Agreed and I also found out cheats back then by just trying combinations, such as in Killer Instinct on SNES. However there is an exception to this, where Game Genie and Action Replay could be used to cheat in the games. And those could be classified as temporary Modding with outside tools.
neutral · AI labelView post →Killer Instinct is a 1v1 fighting game featuring 10 playable characters of different character concepts. Utilizing a double-HP system, KI featured gameplay mechanics such as automatic combos, finishing moves, ultra combos, and the iconic Combo Breaker.
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s like a game you would see in the background of a movie
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I normally love slav jank games, and just bad games in general but this game (besides the laughable excuse for cutscenes) is just boring, beat it apparently in 2 hours and I even got it on sale but I wouldn't recommend this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This Next Generation preview of Yoshi's Island baffles me. The graphics are called "very simple", and unlike Killer Instinct or Donkey Kong Country. The game is described as not new, creative, flashy or original. This preview writer apparently didn't review it, because NG eventually gave it a 5/5.
neutral · AI labelView post →Decent game for a cheap price. Story is a bit like Resident Evil.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Learned a little too late about #kokoscreativeoctober, but still wanted to try something, even if it's very last minute. I love Killer Instinct and wondered what if other Rare characters were in that game. Here's my rough take on a "KI Jetman". I'll keep working on it and others I thought about.
neutral · AI labelView post →Curious game, it seems the only winning move is to channel Sharon Stone from Basic Instinct
neutral · AI labelView post →Even if it is not that great (it looks unfinished at times and will crash pretty often), i always liked this one (already since it came out almost 20 years ago), i really hope You Are Empty from the same old company will also gonna be released as that is an underrated game definetely, and also a hidden gem for lovers of FPS games from eastern europe.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Had this game on disc for over a decade . Picked it up on Steam this last week when I saw it on sale so I now have a digital backup of my disc. Fun FPS where you play as 3 separate soldier characters , two guys and one gal sorta like AvP 1 & 2 & 2010 games. The stories are intertwined as they are all on the same mission just separated doiing different things. You should know that all the game dialog is in Russian or Ukrainian. Since I speak neither I can't say which it is exactly bu it…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Has some technical issues with Windows 10. It has to be the first program to run after booting your PC, otherwise the camera glitches out and starts shaking. You also have to tweak some things in the files. It's not a very good game. Can be finished in 3 hours. It gets better towards the end but still not very fun.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This looked intriguing, so I had to check it out. Really enjoyed the environments, atmosphere, visuals, and there were some very nice set pieces - the gunplay is nothing to write home about (nothing bad, just a small pool of enemies) and I couldn't tell you what the deal is with the story, other than that it's overly ambitious in a fashion typical of this uh, genre. The shotgun feels just like the shotgun in HROT (packs a punch up close, useless at range, sounds very similar too), but reloads…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Onwards to Eclipse 2026! My plan during the is to game with folks, bring Killer Instinct, and learn Melty Blood Type Lumina as that game is very cool. #Eclipse2026 #PlayKI
neutral · AI labelView post →Famine - Feminine anime animal anima / uncanNY YANdere - haLÖWIN / Manga hunger-anger / Kitty in kinky tights / Mascot Cat Mask / Cat meows and mouse game / PREdatoR and PREy / KIller InsTIncT-IT [HD] A new way of showing I'm a starving artist that works for Halloween too Any victim? #indiecomics
neutral · AI labelView post →If you market to humans, you should understand how their brains are wired & what their instincts are telling them. If you don’t market to humans, then you’re probably ok. For the former, we review Instinct: http://the-agency-review.com/instinct @DrRebeccaHeiss #instinct #advertising #marketing
neutral · AI labelView post →Late night thoughts for you all..... How come is it.. that in the 90s... specifically BRITISH game studios revolutionized Games in 3D?.. Rarewere ( DKC, Killer Instinct, etc.) Argonaut ( Who developed the Super FX Chip/Croc pre SM64) Travelers Tales ( Sonic 3D Blast/R)...H o w ?...W h y?👽🛸⁉️
neutral · AI labelView post →Thousands of years ago our brains were programmed to protect us from the life-or-death struggles we faced every day. We’re not facing them today, but our brain acts like we are & that’s not good. We review #Instinct: http://the-agency-review.com/instinct @DrRebeccaHeiss #advertising #marketing
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neutral · AI labelView post →🎮 Still playing PlayStation 3? Saints Row 2, Saints Row: The Third, Dark Kingdom, and The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct are waiting! Which PS3 game deserves another playthrough? 👀 🛒 In store or online: vgdak.com/ps3-games Game On! Video Game Depot #PS3 #RetroGaming
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