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PO'ed: Definitive Edition
Developer Nightdive Studios
PO’ed is an adrenaline-pumping space shooter that features gameplay elements inspired by generational powerhouses DOOM and QUAKE. Play as a chef who crashlands on an alien planet infested with extraterrestrial foes. Using a menu of “household” weapons, PO’ed puts your wits and reflexes to the test. From the Steam store page
135 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy) · newest Nov 1, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
70
Fresh
74 positive · 32 negative
95% range 61–78%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 74 | 32 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 8 | 1 | 17 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 3 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
77 of 110 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
70% recommend · 74 yes, 31 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 105 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (95 of 138 positive).
Nightdive's remaster is praised for making a notoriously flawed game playable and accessible. [1][2][3] The original game is widely considered ugly, confusing, and frustrating, with poor level design and annoying enemies. [4][5][6] Despite its flaws, many players find it uniquely fun and absurd, especially with the jetpack. [7][8][9]
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- [5]
Is this a good remaster? Absolutely! Nightdive does not disappoint. However... is this a good game? Probably not. There is a reason this game has been mostly forgotten over the years. It's got awful level design. Confusing and ridiculous secret level exits. Annoying enemies (bats, mostly), the weapons range from being great to awful, the ones that are fun run out of ammo really quickly. Only offering a few kills …
- [4]
PO'ed is a masterpiece in how to do nothing right in a video game. It looks like visual vomit, worse than anything else I can think of from this era. The enemies have no sense of cohesion about them each one looks like it was taken from a completely different game. They are all annoying to fight, many of them just move around very quickly, with no discernible pattern and spam projectiles at you. None of the weapons …
- [2]
Actually lots of ♥♥♥♥♥♥ fun now that it's, ya know, playable. Had it on 3DO originally and this is the best way to play, needless to say. Especially with the new 3D map. PO'ed is garish, colorful, and 90s as ♥♥♥, but it is well worth your time. Any Point stated in an interview that they wanted to move away from the tunnel based level design of their inspirations Marathon and Star Wars: Dark Forces, and this, they …
- [8]
PO'ed is probably my favorite FPS of all time and I'm glad there's a modern version available for people who can't be bothered to deal with 3DO or PS1 idiosyncrasies to play it. This version just feels great to play once you get the jetpack and you can bomb around like a crazy astronaut. The atmosphere is weird, nothing makes sense, and the maps are practically impossible to parse. All of it comes together to make …
- [1]
"Ultimately, PO’ed: Definitive Edition is yet another shining example of the work Nightdive does with its remasters. The original game is questionable with regards to how well it pulls off its own ideas, but the remaster makes it approachable for anyone curious. It’s very reminiscent of the work Vinegar Syndrome does with cult classic films and vintage pornography. There is an incredibly small niche of filmgoers …
Summarised from 34 of the 135 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 PO'ed: Definitive Edition talk about excellent remaster with smooth framerate and quality-of-life improvements; those who didn't talk about level design is confusing and often bad. Which matters more to you?
Reactions
60 of 135 · most liked firstIs this a good remaster? Absolutely! Nightdive does not disappoint. However... is this a good game? Probably not. There is a reason this game has been mostly forgotten over the years. It's got awful level design. Confusing and ridiculous secret level exits. Annoying enemies (bats, mostly), the weapons range from being great to awful, the ones that are fun run out of ammo really quickly. Only offering a few kills before you have to switch to your crappy sidearm. The jetpack is essential and if…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Peppino entered the Slayer X universe
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →PO'ed is a masterpiece in how to do nothing right in a video game. It looks like visual vomit, worse than anything else I can think of from this era. The enemies have no sense of cohesion about them each one looks like it was taken from a completely different game. They are all annoying to fight, many of them just move around very quickly, with no discernible pattern and spam projectiles at you. None of the weapons in the game feel particularly satisfying to use. The levels are laid out…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Ultimately, PO’ed: Definitive Edition is yet another shining example of the work Nightdive does with its remasters. The original game is questionable with regards to how well it pulls off its own ideas, but the remaster makes it approachable for anyone curious. It’s very reminiscent of the work Vinegar Syndrome does with cult classic films and vintage pornography. There is an incredibly small niche of filmgoers that are interested in such things, but Vinegar Syndrome remasters the films as if…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Make sure you get the jetpack as soon as possible (such as level 2) and this game plays brilliantly, the huge wide open levels later in the game with enemy hordes you can bombard from afar are quite unlike anything seen in 1995.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →even though PO'ed is a jank as fuck game, i love that 90's soul of 'what if we made a game where the lone survivor of an alien infestation on a spaceship is the kitchen chef and we theme the game around that' is peak
positive · AI labelView post →Nightdive do a good job with these remasters, there's no denying. This game is a real stinker. I do appreciate that it's available in a good condition for people who liked it back in the day, but for me who hadn't played it before... It's just awful. I got about 4 levels in, then I got knocked really far back and fell down into a hole that blasted me with fart noises. I think ending my time with this game inside the fart pit is completely understandable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This was a day-one purchase the moment i saw the announcement. PO'ed is one of my favorite PS1 games, and when i saw that Nightdive had restored Powerslave, my first thought was "Man, i'd really like to play PO'ed and have it be given that same treatment. It'll never happen though." Well, now we're here. It looks great, it plays like PO'ed used to(which could be great or horrible depending on your opinion of its general feel), but with the added smoothness of mouse aiming and keyboard…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Thing: Remastered Is the Next Revival From Nightdive Studios. >Remember The Thing? Not the cult classic John Carpenter horror movie from 1982, but the video game continuation from 2002? Well, it’s coming back, courtesy of remaster specialist Nightdive Studios. >Announced today at IGN Live, Nightdive, whose revivals of Star Wars: Dark Forces and System Shock have won plaudits from retro video game fans, is now making The Thing: Remastered for PC and consoles in collaboration with Universal…
neutral · AI labelView post →In 1995 my cousin and I stayed up all night beating this game on my 3DO Multiplayer, connected to an old timey CRT. This morning I was playing it on my toilet, in HD, with quality of life improvements. What a world we live in.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →there wasn't anything else like this when it was released. an absurdist FPS released when games were really starting to enter the common cultural zeitgeist as an Arteforme (note the extra "e"s add seriousness to the matter)...i've been gaming on and off for over three decades and to this day there is still nothing quite like it...a lot of the negative reviews seem to focus on the very same aspects that the positive reviews do and in that way one can infer that this game is more about one's…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What is a great remaster of a bad video game? Still a bad video game. It's just a little shinier and a little easier to play on modern systems. The action feels super slippery and everything about the game is so ugly. I ran into a wild spike in difficulty and suddenly the novelty wore off. It's just not good, especially at full $20 price.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love Nightdive but this crap should have remained in the dust-bin of 3DO..
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Actually lots of ♥♥♥♥♥♥ fun now that it's, ya know, playable. Had it on 3DO originally and this is the best way to play, needless to say. Especially with the new 3D map. PO'ed is garish, colorful, and 90s as ♥♥♥, but it is well worth your time. Any Point stated in an interview that they wanted to move away from the tunnel based level design of their inspirations Marathon and Star Wars: Dark Forces, and this, they achieved. Levels are generally super open and unorthodox for the time, especially…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Redneck Rampage Ram-mastered, please? Thank'ye
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I feel it needs to join that weird pantheon along with the likes of Turok 3 and PO'ed for 'games that no remastering was going to save, but it's good that they tried anyway'. It's an important piece of game history, even its place was 'the game that almost killed Tomb Raider for good'.
neutral · AI labelView post →God awful movement makes this practically unplayable. Not even worth a glance.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I remember seeing an add for this in a Flux magazine back in the 90s, but never got a chance to play it... This is the perfect example of a game where the majority of the people working on it had literally no idea what they were doing... but a few people had some creative concepts. Level Design is non existant.. but some of the weapons are fun (Namely the drill)... but yeah... this game is a mess. Glad I played it, but it is interesting that this is something Nightdive took the time to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is bad, and that's good It'll never be good and that's not bad There's no game I'd rather it be Than PO'ed
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Why did Nightdive remaster this and not a good game?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a trainwreck, I've attempted to play both the 3DO and PS1 versions and they made me sick after about 10 minutes. Nightdive have done their best here, but it's still PO'ed, ugly, frustrating and just unfinished feeling. It's like the Bubsy 3D of FPSes.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The biggest unspoken consequence of video game re-releases replacing the Red Cross with a green cross (which represents "Weed") is that multiple classic video game characters like Doomguy and PO'ed Chef are re-contextualized as Weed Fiends.
neutral · AI labelView post →I beat this game on 3DO and PS1 back in the day, and I’ve always loved it in its original form. Huge thanks to Nightdive for unburying this classic and giving it a second life. It’s great to see not only new games being made in a retro style but also old games being revived and polished with modern standards—like updated controls, smoother framerates, and helpful navigation hints. Personally, I don’t find the game as humorous as it’s often described. To me, it feels more psychedelic and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →PO'ed is probably my favorite FPS of all time and I'm glad there's a modern version available for people who can't be bothered to deal with 3DO or PS1 idiosyncrasies to play it. This version just feels great to play once you get the jetpack and you can bomb around like a crazy astronaut. The atmosphere is weird, nothing makes sense, and the maps are practically impossible to parse. All of it comes together to make something unique.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A remastered port of a weird, often forgotten shooter of yesteryear. Now with a smooth as butter framerate and easier controls with QoL features to make it far more playable (and easier to complete [relatively speaking]). I will warn though, the game does not have any music at all (other than intro music) and a rather confusing layout for maps. It's old school, easy to get lost and soft-locked, so buyer beware of that. Of those who have played the OG and enjoyed the insanity, if you wanted a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love the work Nightdive Studios does in making lost and forgotten FPS games playable on modern systems. For some like Powerslave, it turned out to be a diamond in the rough... but not this. The remaster here is competent and it runs mostly smoothly (although I did have two crashes during the game), but the problem isn't Nightdive's work, PO'ed is an ugly, confusing and not particularly well made game from the get go. The controls feel imprecise and slippery. Enemies move erratically and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Phenomenal game, an extremely underrated and somewhat obscure classic. The game invokes humorous character design, and yet plays like a very serious game, with many cool weapons, puzzles, and lots of jetpack action prior to Duke Nukem. Great remaster and PC release by nightdive for a game that really deserved it 10/10.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First, let me preface by saying; this game is weird. Like, very weird. The early game has you fighting off hordes of walking butts that shoot poop at you, while navigating through levels that look like the old Windows maze screensaver. Then as the game progresses, the level design seems to abandon all sense of logic in favor of lots of moving walls and platforms. While odd, I didn't feel lost or confused to the point of giving up. The game gives you an automap that's quite reliable, and you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I never heared of this game before this remaster came out. And now I know why. This game is a weird mediocre old school fps and a weird choice for a remaster. First lets quickly talk about the technical aspects or stuff concerning the remaster only. The remaster is mostly pretty good, but I do have some complaints: -most importantly: the game is lacking quick saves/loads (but it has manual saving/loading), every old school fps should have quick saves -I did have a few crashs, especially on one…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to thank Samuel Villarreal (Kaiser) from Night Dive Studios allot, for making this PO'ed Remake Possible! It did not only fulfill his dream of making it, but my dream of replaying it after having played the 3DO version so many years ago! PO'ed is a great game. It was a great game back in the day on 3DO and PS1... and the Remaster only confirms this. PO'ed is to Doom/Quake what Parodius is to Gradius. The one and only thing I seen over the years that most people get hanged up on, is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Literally that Danny Devito gif of him clapping this game does indeed, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ suck LOL good remaster though, jetpack is fun to fly around with
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As a huge retro FPS fan, all I have to say is WHAT THE F*CK IS THIS? Seriously though, calling this piece of t*rd a game is a compliment. Some people really looked at this and said: "This is good, let's release it." The movement is f*cked up beyond belief. Wherever you go, you slide all over the place. The whole game feels like you are on an ice level. Enemies always throw projectiles at where you will be. They can predict your every move. It doesn't matter if you are circle strafing or moving…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I thought I had already played the worst of all FPS with Angst: Rahz's Revenge, but Nightdive showed it could be worse with this PO'ed remaster. Thanks for the lesson.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game made me sick to play and the controls suck balls still appreciate Nightdive efforts to preserve old video games however.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fantastic remaster of a REALLY TERRIBLE game that is also really funny. The level design is comically bad at many points but it was really fun to laugh at. It's rare to see a game with such varied competence. Parts of this game are very fun and inspired, and other parts are messed up and atrocious. Enduring the bad grants you access to some of the craziest movement in the boomer shooter genre via the very fun jetpack, and some very fun weapons and some genuinely good enemy designs. A good…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There is a lot to unpack here. Me being in the majority of people that have never known anything about Po'ed until Nightdive announced the remaster. I gave the game a chance as I respect Nightdive for being an awesome group of people, bringing many classics to a modern audience or allowing a much easier way to experience something from your childhood. Now, Po'ed is probably that game for some people. For me, it is an astronomically distant object of that argument. Po'ed is an older first person…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have so many wonderful memories of PO'ed, specifically the PSX version. It's possible that I played it around the same time as the Winter Releases '98 demo included with Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped. I had a wide selection of discs and often found myself returning to the PO'ed demo, repeatedly playing the only available level (Arena). It always gave me great feelings. Later, I managed to borrow the full game from a friend, but I never finished it. After discovering on April 1, 2024, that…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hideous level design with ugly textures, Infinite ai range and terrible guns with low ammo. Oh Game should have stayed in 1995. Go buy slayer X Ok remaster of a mediocre title. For the high price... This is instant refund.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Retro FPS Collection. This is a collection of retro FPS which I downloaded a long, long time ago. Below is an excerpt of the readme so you can see what's in the collection: **1st Wave: ** -Battlezone + -Castle Master + -Cybercon 3 -Cyber-Cop -Eye Of The Beholder -Faceball 2000 -Hovertank 3D -Midwinter + -Mobile Suit Z Gundam - Hot Scramble -Space School Simulator - The Academy -Star Cruiser -Terminator 2029 -WaxWorks -Xenocide **2nd Wave: ** -Alien Cabal -Bad Toys 3D -Blake Stone +…
neutral · AI labelView post →Polished ♥♥♥♥ is still ♥♥♥♥
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is fun and funny, but I recommend waiting for a patch before purchasing.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The best part of PO'ed was when Ox PO'ed said "I'M PO'ED" and PO'ed all over those aliens. I genuinely cried tears of joy
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Some things are obscure for a reason. PO'ed is a bizarre, janky but worthwhile shooter. Much credit to Nightdive for bringing this one back.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A good remaster of a game so bad, that it’s good.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the weirdest games I've ever played. It's a good kind of weird though, like it has this strange charm to it that you don't really see in games too often. Good on Nightdive for remastering this, it's a fantastic trip.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →janky but really fun. 8/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →feels like diarrhea 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →you'll be PO'ed when you find out which game
neutral · AI labelView post →Nightdive did a great job on this remaster. The soul of the game was definitely preserved, and there's both good and bad in that. PO'ed harkens back to the dawn of the 32bit gaming consoles, and those were strange days. More power than was needed for 2D scrollers, but not enough power to do what we think of as 3D today. PO'ed pushed past the boundaries into what should not have been possible on those machines, and trade-offs were made to get there. The game play is quirky, it's weird, but…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played it in the 90s on my 3DO and this is the perfect port of the game. 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game sucks hard
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm PO'ed I gave this uncontrollable mess a chance. I love Nightdive's remasters and System Shock Remake, but I would humbly advise them to better prioritize their efforts, as this game seemed unsalvageable to me. Character moves like ♥♥♥♥, it's so frustrating to come from all the classic shooters and play this crap. Join me in Hexen 2 + Heretic 2 prayer circle instead of projects like these.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →started the PS1 version of PO'ed last night (yes, I know about the nightdive remaster) and having more fun than I expected BUT the game has no soundtrack? I put on the ps1 doom soundtrack to start but curious if folks have other favorite 90s FPS OSTs (the weirder and more ambient the better!)
positive · AI labelView post →This remaster is like if you put a blind fish in space to breathe oxygen while asking him what color the sun is. A turd that should have never been polished despite Nightdive's reputation on making remasters of good games
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →#Didyouknow? Possibly the first game developed using feedback from the Internet was PO'ed for 3DO. Not documented but the developers solicited ideas from the #vidgames channel on IRC. I was there. I remember when they decided to use a frying pan as a weapon. It was a Boaty McBoat face thing.
neutral · AI labelView post →the level design is no
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is simply put, an amazing experience, faithfully remastered by Nightdive. I can fully see why it is one of the main developers of the remaster's game to get the source code to. While it does have some inconsistensies in it's level design, and has some annoying enemies, it's still incredibly fun, and trashy. It's a game that embraces it's time, which is 1995. It was the year full of games similar to PO'ED, but even then, PO'ED stands out. Statisfying gunplay, nice ambience, good…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What to say about Po'ed uh? It's a game in which you play as an intergalactic chef trying to find a way out of a space station or such, fighting enemies like two legged butts that make this insufferable farting noise (which you can thankfully disable in options) among others, with all kinds of ludicrous and absurd weapons. It almost feels like a joke and I don't know who was in on it. Like, is this supposed to be funny? Wait, I do get it tho, I'm from the 90's; just play Boogerman on Genesis or…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this should have been left in the past.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had a fever dream once where i was tossed around by vaguely sexual monsters inside an flashing bright room, so it's great this game allows me to relive that moment in my life.
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