Saints Row: Gat out of Hell
Saints Row: Gat out of Hell
Game
Game2013
Saints Row IV: Re-Elected
Developer Deep Silver Volition
Saints Row IV is a 2013 action-adventure game developed by Volition and published by Deep Silver. It is the sequel to 2011's Saints Row: The Third, the fourth game in the Saints Row series, and the final main installment of the original series that began with 2006's Saints Row. The game was released in August 2013 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360, and was later ported to the PlayStation 4, Xbox… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
370 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
63
Fresh
164 positive · 95 negative
95% range 57–69%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 164 | 95 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 47 | 7 | 44 |
| Lemmy * | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| Mastodon * | 3 | 0 | 2 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
26,966 of 32,107 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
64% recommend · 151 yes, 86 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 237 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (68,032 of 77,623 positive).
Players are divided on the game's forced Epic Games integration, which many say ruins the experience. [1][2][3] Some reviewers praise the over-the-top humor and superpowers, calling it a fun superhero sandbox. [4][5][6] Others note that the game is buggy, especially in co-op, and recommend using the legacy version. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [1]
Making a third party launcher a requirement post-launch, dont care how much time has passed, should be illegal, eat my entire ass Deep Silver Is the game good? Doesnt matter Is the game fun? Doesnt matter Does the game make you use the epic games bloatware client now? Yes, hence the negative review. If you wanna re-play this game today, use the steam beta branches and pick an older version to avoid this BS, do not …
- [3]
WARNING: After the most recent update, this game that I bought ON STEAM years ago, PAUSES my game during a single player campaign to ask me to link my Epic account. The embedded Epic update is FORCE PAUSING me in the middle of a SINGLE PLAYER game to make me link my accounts... I didn't even buy this from Epic. This is why Steam will always be better than Epic launcher.
- [4]
Hell yeah. I know there is a strict divide between people who think everything after Saints Row 2 was an abonimation, but I enjoyed the even-more-over-the-top style and the clownish behaviour of the boss. Not taking things seriously, that's me. On the other hand, I understand why some people prefer Saints Row 2. But if you can get behind a game based on the premise "Aliens put you into the Matrix after you, a gang …
- [5]
Saints Row IV is probably the best open-world superhero game we’ve ever gotten. You may not have a massive list of superpowers, but the ones you do have are more than enough. From super speed to telekinesis, everything makes you feel completely overpowered — and that’s the point. The game doesn’t try to balance you. It lets you break it, and that’s where the fun is. As expected from a Saints Row title, the humor is …
- [6]
Love the humor style and all the random activities, genuinely fun to just watch the interactions between characters and listen to the dialog, like a much sillier, funnier version of GTA
Summarised from 34 of the 337 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 9, 2026. How summaries are made
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Saints Row IV: Re-Elected sits at 63% positive across 259 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The game received generally positive reviews on PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and Xbox 360 according to video game review aggregator website Metacritic. On Xbox One and Nintendo Switch, it received mixed reviews. Reviewers praised its over-the-top humor and character customization options, and criticized its lack of challenge. Several also commented on its "even-handed treatment" of gender, particularly female characters, and spotlighted hacker and former FBI agent Kinzie Kensington's character performance. Saints Row IV sold over one million copies in its first week, and as of 2013, Volition has not released total sales figures. Polygon's Danielle Riendeau described Saints Row IV as…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 370 · most liked firststill think Saints Row IV is an incredible send-up of video game romance. there's a button prompt on every friendly NPC that just says "romance" and pressing it plays a canned cutscene where you hook up, except for Vice President Keith David who turns you down
positive · AI labelView post →Story time: How unclear UI "tricked" players into having gay sex (and they weren't happy about it) In Saints Row IV we added a tongue-in-cheek companion romance system. When it was first hooked up in game the option in the conversation wheel was labeled 'Proposition'
neutral · AI labelView post →Making a third party launcher a requirement post-launch, dont care how much time has passed, should be illegal, eat my entire ass Deep Silver Is the game good? Doesnt matter Is the game fun? Doesnt matter Does the game make you use the epic games bloatware client now? Yes, hence the negative review. If you wanna re-play this game today, use the steam beta branches and pick an older version to avoid this BS, do not validate this kind of behavior by buying new copies.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Saints Row IV - I liked aspects of the earlier games, but I actually really enjoyed the meta silliness of IV. I accept that I don't have a lot of company in having this opinion 🙂 EDIT: I guess I was wrong! I swear every time I've seen SRIV mentioned, I've seen tons of hate directed at it. Glad to see there are a bunch of us! Dozens even 😄
positive · AI labelView post →Right-click the game in your Steam Library. Go to Properties > Game Versions & Betas and select "sriv_legacy". This is pretty much mandatory in order for the game to be playable, since Epic Games decided to screw up the latest default version and install some of their crappy software onto your system without your consent when you launch the default version. You know, cause we didn't hate Epic Games enough already. This step is also necessary in order to play a lot of SRIV mods.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →forces Epic Online Services so you can cross play with 0.001% of players on Tim Sweeney's failed child
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →WARNING: After the most recent update, this game that I bought ON STEAM years ago, PAUSES my game during a single player campaign to ask me to link my Epic account. The embedded Epic update is FORCE PAUSING me in the middle of a SINGLE PLAYER game to make me link my accounts... I didn't even buy this from Epic. This is why Steam will always be better than Epic launcher.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Years after release, the game now requires the Epic launcher for a title that isn't even theirs. It installs at launch without asking your permission. How about we don't extend the 3rd party bloatware issue (with a launcher that launches a launcher to launch the game) to a 12-year-old game?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →That's probably the best outcome, considering a virus is masquerading as a GTA6 demo. Personally, I'd rather just play *Saints Row 3* again. I just did 100% runs on *Saints Row IV* and *Gat Out of Hell*. All three of them are incredibly *stupid* games (only the first two *Saints Row* games seriously tried to take on *GTA*), but they are also incredibly fun, and that's what keeps me coming back.
neutral · AI labelView post →Epic now downloads resources on to your computer (Without permissions) when you install this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Epic killed this game. Cant play it without getting a popup every 5 sec asking me to sign in with an epic account.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Back when Saints Row IV was a thing, I paused my game to use the bathroom. When I come back, my then 5yo. daughter had the controller. She made my character run up to every house & punch the front door, so she could say "TRICK OR TREAT". I grabbed a drink & watched for a while. Best SR4 experience.
positive · AI labelView post →played for five minutes got asked to link Epic games account 12 times i didnt even buy it on epic games so i dont want to link the account ffs thinking about getting a refund and just play the dayum thing on my xbox
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Epic idiocy strikes again. Good game IMO, but I have no idea why you want to spam me with online connections on a single player game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unplayable with epic game account popup every 30 seconds. ♥♥♥♥ epic games
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dear, Deep Silver Volition developers. Please, I beg you, fix online co-op. My friend and I were trying to play and enjoy this wonderful game, but it keeps crashing. We are very upset. I hope you notice this message, somehow.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Welp, guess it's time to get back into playing my favorite "bad" video game. Tis time to return to Saints Row IV y'all! ❤️🌲😌🌲❤️
positive · AI labelView post →i bought this game on steam, i i dont want to play this on a second game launhcer Epic games store. what is this crap? if i wanted to play it on epic i would bought it there. also the game crashes and it has a audio bug.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Saints Row IV is the best superhero game. Period.
positive · AI labelView post →When i launch the game, epic game store installs iteself without permission. And then it constantly asking me to make epic game store account. Too bad, was a fun game. Uninstalled this peace of garbage.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wanted to go back to playing this only to find out that Epic is mandatory install now. Gj ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So, sadly the only way to play this game is having legacy on. If you encounter Lag you gotta Click the Start menu and type Notepad. Right-click Notepad → Run as administrator. If you skip this, you won’t be able to save the file. In Notepad: File → Open. At the bottom of the Open window, change the file type from “Text Documents (.txt)” to **All Files (.*)**. Go to this folder:C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc Open the file named hosts (no extension). Scroll to the bottom and add these two…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played it through about ten years ago, didn't like it as much as Saints Row 3 but had some fun. Wanted to play it again, after a lot of troubleshooting and fixes I managed to get the random crashes reasonably under control, but the final mission is a crashfest and after two days of trying and retrying I finally gave up and uninstalled. Like a lot of games leaning on pop culture references it hasn't aged well, and the combination of repetitive puzzles and very grindy kill 100 enemies…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →They don't. They understand profit, which must increase year after year. Every business understands this. Every game company which started out small and passionate about art and gaming eventually got big and started putting profits ahead of the love of the game. Look at Valve, everyone likes to glaze them, but their company's story is that they stopped making games once they realised they could just sell those of other companies. It's not that *Half-Life 3* and *Portal 3* wouldn't sell…
neutral · AI labelView post →Many people say that the series died with 2/3 but I think this is over hated. Mindless dumb funny games are so hard to come across now
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[Song of the Day] Holding Out for a Hero by Bonnie Tyler. If you guessed today's song of the day would be *Total Eclipse of the Heart*, well, that would have been a great guess, especially after the BBC called it "the most dramatic pop song ever written." Could have sworn it said "the most epic" when I first saw the article. But either way, that's the song getting all the hype, and it's a great song, but this one... You can ask five different people where they know this song and you might get…
neutral · AI labelView post →Still think Tears of the Kingdom has some of the most satisfying world traversal in any open world game Only thing that might top it is Saints Row IV just because you're blasting around being hilarious sociopath Neo
positive · AI labelView post →Saints Row IV has aged worse than any game in the series and it’s extremely darkly funny that when they made it they were clearly like “we want to make this game’s themes more clearly just for fun. So we made it about an absurdly flagrant gangster somehow becoming President and dooming everyone”
negative · AI labelView post →Saints Row IV should have been a DLC for the third game rather than a standalone sequel. While I have a nostalgic soft spot for the soundtrack and the dubstep guns that I absolutely loved as a kid, the rest of the experience falls flat. The introduction of superhero powers completely ruins the game's balance, making vehicles and customization pointless, while the recycled map feels lazy and uninspired. It’s a repetitive, identity-clashing mess that lacks the charm of the earlier entries,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Liked this game, enjoyed it even with the crashing. Owned it on ps3, 360, and ps4. Somehow the PC port is the most unstable, it crashes way more often. What I really hate now though if I want to play this I have to download the ♥♥♥♥♥ ass epic launcher and get forced into the Re-Elected edition when I didn't ask for it. Game is fun and does have great moments but you'll never see them with the PC port. ♥♥♥♥ Epic and Steam for forcing the launcher followed by these pc port issues that shouldn't…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →#BreakingKindSongs #MusicChallenge July 16: song or score from a video game Opposites Attract by Paula Abdul This was featured in Saints Row IV, which is a chaotic, sweary and violent game. Although, it's more of a parody of say, the Grand Theft Auto type genre www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwei...
neutral · AI labelView post →Epic game keeps popping up I'm not allowing access to that ♥♥♥♥ plus doing speed race trying to atleast get silver and it ♥♥♥♥♥ up and forces me to be stuck in the wall for a good solid 5 seconds or more changed it to controller and still happens ♥♥♥♥ you EPIC GAMES
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Saints Row IV is a game about the joy of playing Pipe Mania for the Amiga.
positive · AI labelView post →16. Saints Row IV I debated the 3rd game or the 4th because both are excellent and very, very, very, very different. I love the writing on these two games. I love Laura Bailey voicing my gang boss, and they're so much fun. But I'm picking SR4 because it is best video game adaptation of The Matrix.
positive · AI labelView post →Hell yeah. I know there is a strict divide between people who think everything after Saints Row 2 was an abonimation, but I enjoyed the even-more-over-the-top style and the clownish behaviour of the boss. Not taking things seriously, that's me. On the other hand, I understand why some people prefer Saints Row 2. But if you can get behind a game based on the premise "Aliens put you into the Matrix after you, a gang boss, became president of the United States by manually destroying a nuclear…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →We downloaded SAINTS ROW IV when we got our PS5 and I swear that between that game, SKYRIM, and KATAMARI I don’t really need any other games. SR IV is pure OP nonsense. They just hand the player a short and easy path to godhood and say “Have fun.”
positive · AI labelView post →I mean, *Saints Row IV* had a female protagonist (though you could optionally play a guy) and there's a stripper scene where YOU(R CHARACTER) strips to *Simply Irresistible* and you do QTEs (since those were all the rage back then) to dance more effectively. I looked on YouTube and only one person made a video of it and everyone else is just reposting that one... and it's the guy. So that's a bit weird. YouTube is funny like that. Anyway, it happened, saw it on my own Xbox anyway.
neutral · AI labelView post →1. This is just empty NFT promises all over again. 2. I would only be interested if I could bring the Dubstep Gun from SAINTS ROW IV into every game I play from this point forward.
neutral · AI labelView post →Saints Row IV oscillates rapidly between the most fun I've ever had in a video game and the most tedious shit imaginable
neutral · AI labelView post →My eternal video game grudge against volition for not getting back like three fourths of the female boss voice cast for Saints Row IV But hey Nolan North, memez
negative · AI labelView post →This game is like gamer fast food. You know it isn't good for you but it is pretty easy to get down and into it. In this Saints Row the world is destroyed by aliens and the whole game plays out in a deep dive simulation. The gameplay is kinda fun and there is some nice little throw back missions to missions in Saints Row 2. I'm not going to recommend it above Saints Row 2 but weirdly enough I do think it is a slightly better game than Saints Row 3.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is alright but they're now added a requirement quite far after launch for 3rd party software to be installed for the game to played.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🄵🅁🄾🄼 🅃🄷🄴 🄵🄰🄻🄲🄾🄽 🅅🄰🅄🄻🅃🅂 #365xFalconGames25 A game a day keeps the doctor away! Game 2️⃣0️⃣3️⃣ This is Saints Row First Edition: Saints Row IV & Gat out of Hell! A very cool collection! What are you sharing today? #gaming #GamersUnite
neutral · AI labelView post →Game 35 of 2025: Saints Row: The Third So this is my first Saints Row game and frankly, this was fun. It's flawed but still a fun game and now I'm looking forward to Saints Row IV and that reboot 7.5/10
positive · AI labelView post →I think it's fine to enjoy the world of *Harry Potter* even though JK Rowling is TERF trash. I knew something was up with that series long before Rowling was outed as a TERF. The whole "Americans are too dumb to know what a Philosopher's Stone is" never sat right with me. Then like a year later *Fullmetal Alchemist* became one of the biggest anime series, with a story based around the philosopher's stone, so the *Potter* franchise looked really dumb, but they kept the US-only title. I also…
neutral · AI labelView post →TLDR: Superpowers make traversal an absolute blast, but clunky combat, a sea of bugs, and wild inconsistency ensure every high point comes bundled with an equally frustrating low. PROS: ➕Humor and pop culture references ➕superpowers are fun ➕Main missions offer some creative alternative gameplay elements, i.e side-scrolling beat’em ups CONS: ➖Less character creation options than SR3 ➖Animations are clunky, especially with all the agility that super powers give you ➖So many bugs ➖Story is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Saints Row IV is probably the best open-world superhero game we’ve ever gotten. You may not have a massive list of superpowers, but the ones you do have are more than enough. From super speed to telekinesis, everything makes you feel completely overpowered — and that’s the point. The game doesn’t try to balance you. It lets you break it, and that’s where the fun is. As expected from a Saints Row title, the humor is completely over-the-top. The missions are ridiculous, the dialogue is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →16. Saints Row IV I just love so much about this game - the gameplay loop, the running up walls and flying around the city, making the president of the United States French as fuck, aliens, Jane Austen...
positive · AI labelView post →Jane Austen @edenriegel.bsky.social Video Game: Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell Year: 2015 Previously, Eden Riegel did voice Jane Austen (yes, THAT Jane Austen) in Saints Row IV. Also in Gat Out of Hell, Riegel voiced several demons in the game. #SaintsRow #SaintsRowIV
neutral · AI labelView post →I really love this game but the crashes are so annoying, if you have a console it's better to get it on it rather than on PC. Edit: and if you are playing this in coop, this game is filled with desync that causes disconnections and replaying the mission again everytime that happens. Edit 2: I just finished the game and the DLC missions yesterday and it seems like if you are playing in coop as well there will be progression bug in map where despite you have collected all collectibles and done…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Epic ruined the stability of multiplayer altogether and even on a completely wired LAN connection (over Online mode, even on wired you will NEVER get any games showing under LAN) and so I can't recommend this to anyone who would remotely want a fun multiplayer experience. That being said the game is fun but has been crippled by third party slopware forced on every player.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a 10/10 experience. I recommend it to players who like open world sandbox games as it is fun and as hilarious moments in it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The only reason for the negative review is how often the game crashes due to old online services they have not removed from the PC version. I think there's a work around but honestly couldn't be bothered with the faff.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Before the epic update, there really was no issues, but now sadly i have to give a negative. The game decides to have a stroke one or one and a half hour of play time, it will either crash and then hard crash my pc, or the audio will die. No matter how many fixes, it remains the same. I am dissapointed EDIT: so after trying to play the legacy version, i can confirm that the game is more playable now, so i will stick to that version, however i am not changing my review, because the re-elected…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Without saying "Fallout: New Vegas," name the video game that transed your gender First one for me was Saints Row IV
positive · AI labelView post →I REALLY love the Saints Row Reboot, I keep playing it. It was clearly not "the same" as the former games, but after Saints Row IV, if they weren't going to do another Johnny Gatt game, this was a good option. I always just slow walk it to enjoy the characters, which were good enough to care about
positive · AI labelView post →epic launcher and is not even better than 3 not really a good game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you see this, QS with 10 Games to get to know you! #gamesky #promosky #gaming 1. Terraria 2. Starbound 3. Dragon Quest Builders (esp 2) 4. Zelda (most) 5. Xenoblade Chronicles X 6. Ys (esp 8) 7. Rune Factory (esp 3) 8. Burnout Paradise 9. Saints Row IV 10. Untitled Goose Game 🎮🦉✨
neutral · AI labelView post →You want to play as the president of the USA, but instead of an orange dipshit fighting "illegal aliens", you'd rather be a charismatic character with superpowers fighting actual aliens? Play Saints Row IV! I know the game was a bit divisive, but personally, I absolutely loved it. It was pure fun!
positive · AI labelView post →After playing Saints Row 3 I was ready for an updated experience so i downloaded the fourth only to find out its jst a clone of the third one. Literally uses all the previous games animations and feels exactly like Saints Row 3 with a vey, very slight graphics update. This feels like a DLC for saints row 3.
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