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Sir, You Are Being Hunted
Developer Big Robot Ltd
Sir, You Are Being Hunted (alternatively titled Madam, You Are Being Hunted) is an open world survival horror stealth video game developed by Big Robot for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux. An alpha version of the game was made available on 19 August 2013. After years without updates, in September 2021 the game was updated to version 1.5 by the external Dutch game development studio Den of Thieves Games.… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
241 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy) · newest Oct 23, 2026 · last updated Oct 23, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
68
Fresh
120 positive · 56 negative
95% range 61–75%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 120 | 56 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 24 | 1 | 38 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
2,333 of 3,016 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
68% recommend · 121 yes, 57 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 178 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (3,023 of 3,907 positive).
Players praise the game's unique atmosphere and concept, but many note it feels unfinished or abandoned. [1][2][3] Some reviewers find the gameplay repetitive and the stealth mechanics frustrating. [4][5] Others appreciate the tense, satisfying experience despite bugs and dated visuals. [6][7][8]
Liked
Representative posts
- [4]
While Sir, You Are Being Hunted has a unique atmosphere (it offers a British countryside ambiance with amusing and somewhat charming Victorian-style robots with very British humour; the game's the first tweedpunk survival FPS), the gameplay quickly becomes repetitive. Most of the time is spent walking, scavenging, and avoiding enemies, which starts to feel tedious after a few hours. The combat is clunky and …
- [18]
This game can be a lot of fun and is pretty unique, but on a playthrough I just had a fragment end up being stuck inside a rock with no way of getting it, so a game breaking bug, man, if you were almost done the game and your last fragment was like that? Could drive a man to insanity, thankfully in my case it was only my 2nd one. So that's why I'm giving it a negative review just as a warning for some people, if you …
- [2]
I do like the game, but I do not recommend purchasing it unless you're really into the game and it's on sale. There's some jank to it still, and with the studio effectively defunct (I think it exists in name only with like 2 executives left from what online documents I saw), there'll be no more development. It's a great concept, and I hope another company will one day buy the IP and further develop the concept with …
- [6]
Well, it's only taken me 9 years since buying this in the early access state to actually play it in earnest, and gosh... what can I say? It's a work of genius game design. Remarkable game design in fact. How all the elements of game play coalesce into a terrifyingly tight piece of horror, full of tension and demanding of a thoughtful mind, is a wonder to behold. Yes, there are bugs (I got stuck between a rock unable …
- [7]
This comes with a massive Caveat. If you are not into playing with stealth mechanics? Don't play this. If you are ok with some light stealth, looting, and several variants of murderous robot? This is a very entertaining and at times frustrating game. You will die and lose progress of like hours. You will die to hunger, bleeding with no bandage, and being chain bit by dogs. But when you learn this game? nothing is …
Summarised from 34 of the 244 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 12, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
68% of the 178 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Sir, You Are Being Hunted. The complaint that keeps coming up: game feels unfinished and abandoned by developers. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The game received "mixed" 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 241 · most liked firstThe BIG ROBOT classic, Sir, You Are Being Hunted, along with our other games, are all on sale this week! It would make a rubbish summer significantly nicer if you could pick one of these up and enjoy our weirdo worldbuilding. store.steampowered.com/app/242880/S...
positive · AI labelView post →In surprising computer game news: Sir, You Are Being Hunted finally made it to console, just fourteen years after release on PC. It's out now on Switch, PS5, and Xbox. (And Steam and GoG, of course.)
neutral · AI labelView post →I expect that if you are a videogameplaying person on here, following me, then you probably already own genre-bestriding British stealth ramshackle robot-avoider Sir, You Are Being Hunted. But in case you do not: it's -40% on Steam at the moment.
positive · AI labelView post →There is nothing more festive than being hunted by robots, I say! And it is with that sentiment in mind that I bring you Sir, You Are Being Hunted, beloved and seminal stealth and survival game from Big Robot, a gift of 40% off. Cheers!
positive · AI labelView post →Also! Sir, You Are Being Hunted is on sale in the Steam Autumn sale, and there is no more autumnal experience than fleeing between the hedgerows chased by tweedy British robots. And hey, it's a game you should probably own if you like anything I have ever done.
positive · AI labelView post →Sir, You Are Being Hunted. Great idea... not optimized AT ALL.
neutral · AI labelView post →Sir, You Are Being Hunted is missing out on the Halloween sale for some baffling Steam reason, so pick up the greatest survival game ever made or even imagined for FIFTY PERCENT OFF this weekend! Do it now! Go! Please! I love you! store.steampowered.com/app/242880/S...
positive · AI labelView post →Sir, You Are Being Hunted finally made it to console, just fourteen years after release on PC. It's out now on Switch, PS5, and Xbox. To my fellow game dev fans: don't miss this post-mortem! It's the story of a series of lucky breaks—being in the right place at the right time.
neutral · AI labelView post →The point of Sir, You Are Being Hunted was that we had no idea how to make games, and didn't have a lot of money to do it. What we did have, though, was incredible, unrepeatable fortune. We happened to be making this game at a point where this new phenomenon had come along. It was called Kickstarter
neutral · AI labelView post →In long-overdue Big Robot Ltd news: the reboot, 'Sir, You Are Being Hunted Reinvented Edition', is now not happening, for certain. This means I can and will try once again to port Sir to consoles via other means. Perhaps it will even happen one day!
neutral · AI labelView post →Random Screenshots of my Games #30 - Sir, You Are Being Hunted. *Sir, You Are Being Hunted* is a comedic survival game, where you are stuck on a collection of small islands. You need to gather up fragments of an artifact and bring it back to a circle of runestones to create an escape portal.  You are being hunted by British robot gentlemen, though. So you need to be aware of your surroundings and keep quiet.…
neutral · AI labelView post →The Signal From Tolva, The Light Keeps Us Safe and Sir You Are Being Hunted are all very interesting games that draw inspiration from the STALKER series, but in different ways. Pretty good time for games like that, what with Project Silverfish dropping the other day and The Explorator recently.
neutral · AI labelView post →And find Sir, You Are Being Hunted on all the Switch, Xbox, and PS5 storefronts, today!
neutral · AI labelView post →Was hunted once, will not get hunted again!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It feels as if this game was never truly finished. Regardless, I enjoyed it thoroughly. It's terrifying and gratifying.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought it when it came out and it was so much fun in co-op and trying to sneak around and not get found out by the robothunters. + Very good atmosphere and scary + You can generate new islands easily with the seed system - Devs broke the multiplay system with a strange "Update" that was more of a "Downdate", me and a friends struggled so much to get it to work. At one point I think we tried to use Radmin or Hamachi, not 100% sure. Just remember we uninstalled it and feelt angry about that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A survival game where you are supposed to find a bunch of fragments around 5 islands and stay away from the enemies. It is very simplistic, not very fun and the graphic definitely show its age too. The Linux version of the game works without any issues.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sir, You Are Being Hunted (2014)
neutral · AI labelView post →I do like the game, but I do not recommend purchasing it unless you're really into the game and it's on sale. There's some jank to it still, and with the studio effectively defunct (I think it exists in name only with like 2 executives left from what online documents I saw), there'll be no more development. It's a great concept, and I hope another company will one day buy the IP and further develop the concept with modern technology, new features, and to current standards (not predatory…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A charming little trip through the British countryside, complete with courteous robot gentlemen who would very much like to murder me. It turns out "pastoral" can be surprisingly menacing.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sir, You Are Being Hunted is like someone made a game based on a forgotten Alan Moore Future Shock story from 2000AD. It has a unique, distinctive mix of darkly hilarious satirical whimsy and genuinely terrifying peril. Definitely worth picking up.
positive · AI labelView post →(I still think this is their best game, but I completely understand if you prefer Sir You Are Being Hunted)
positive · AI labelView post →I always think about the Sir, You Are Being Hunted review where the reviewer mistakenly cited something in the game that was hand-built as a reason why procedural generation techniques were destroying games (and that i was, consequently, a personal disappointment to him).
neutral · AI labelView post →Please check out my friend @forcesofgood.bsky.social's new album! If you have played any of the Big Robot games, like Sir, You Are Being Hunted, Tolva, or Light, you will have heard his sound before, and this is some of his best work: forcesofgood.bandcamp.com/album/flare
neutral · AI labelView post →They say it's brutally funny. I say it's incredibly boring after 1st walkthrough.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Such a shame the remaster has been abandoned. This game is such a good classic. I hope they come back at some point and continue on with the remaster.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hidden gems of Steam. Sad to see it's future state with developers, as the concept and art style were really unique
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well, it's only taken me 9 years since buying this in the early access state to actually play it in earnest, and gosh... what can I say? It's a work of genius game design. Remarkable game design in fact. How all the elements of game play coalesce into a terrifyingly tight piece of horror, full of tension and demanding of a thoughtful mind, is a wonder to behold. Yes, there are bugs (I got stuck between a rock unable to move so had to reload at one point) and some of the interface elements are…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In many ways, this game feels like an indie precursor to both immersive stealth games and extraction shooters. I'm not saying it directly inspired games like Dishonored or Arc Raiders, but you can clearly see the ambition of this small project, even more than ten years later. When I was younger and played it for the first time, I found it genuinely intimidating. Not because it was a horror game, but because of what I assumed the experience would be. You're stranded on an island full of enemies,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sir, You Are Being Refunded
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This comes with a massive Caveat. If you are not into playing with stealth mechanics? Don't play this. If you are ok with some light stealth, looting, and several variants of murderous robot? This is a very entertaining and at times frustrating game. You will die and lose progress of like hours. You will die to hunger, bleeding with no bandage, and being chain bit by dogs. But when you learn this game? nothing is more satisfying then runinning away and outsmarting these robots. 8/10 I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While Sir, You Are Being Hunted has a unique atmosphere (it offers a British countryside ambiance with amusing and somewhat charming Victorian-style robots with very British humour; the game's the first tweedpunk survival FPS), the gameplay quickly becomes repetitive. Most of the time is spent walking, scavenging, and avoiding enemies, which starts to feel tedious after a few hours. The combat is clunky and unsatisfying, and the AI can behave unpredictably. Combined with the game's slow pace…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's certainly interesting to compare with the vastly more successful Sir, You Are Being Hunted (which is admittedly a clearer, punchier pitch) arriving before Steam was open for all to publish, and catching waves of Kickstarter, Early Access, procedural generation, and the survival genre emerging.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is one of the best Games I played In a decade The vibe is Perfect I bought A pair of tweed pants Because of It !
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game can be a lot of fun and is pretty unique, but on a playthrough I just had a fragment end up being stuck inside a rock with no way of getting it, so a game breaking bug, man, if you were almost done the game and your last fragment was like that? Could drive a man to insanity, thankfully in my case it was only my 2nd one. So that's why I'm giving it a negative review just as a warning for some people, if you can forgive that and would start over after an "Aww shucks" then go for it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It was interesting to go through it with friends, run and kill robots.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game came out when concepts spoke louder than words. The idea of being hunted while AI mercilessly follows in your wake, hounds hunting in your footprints wake was a huge selling point even though there was not enough resources in the world to make a game that intricate and advanced. Given the eleven year gap from when I played this first and how it plays now, it's nothing you haven't seen a thousand times by now. Ai shows up in towns when you're nearby, they patrol, you search generic…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →good game but the fact that they're still charging 20$ for it is crazy
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pros: Robots Cons: British
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Playing some more Gloomwood and it really makes me miss the way games like Sir You Are Being Hunted handled allowing you to change the gender of the game's protagonist. You just clicked to swap and it changed the game's title, and how the narrator addressed you. Really simple but meaningful!
positive · AI labelView post →Despite the reinvented edition having seeminly been canned, the original game Sir you are being hunted is still a really fun & quaint little indie game. While it can be beaten relatively fast and is thus a tad expensive for what it is, especially with the rough visuals, i'd say gameplay more than makes up for that. Replayability aside the game is a blast to play because of a great core gameplay loop. You run around a very nicely procedurally generated English countryside looking for a handfull…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An extremely novel and intriguing concept for a game that feels like it was never thought of enough before or during development I remember the amount of hype surrounding this game when I first learned about it, I guess about a decade if not more ago. A weird, cool idea in a setting that - at the time anyway - was unusual. Sir, You Are Being Hunted can get genuinely scary at times and the atmosphere generated by the music, the visuals and the in-game sounds can feel weighty. Unfortunately…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Stream Schedule! My streaming friends do these and I keep meaning to, so here we are! Friday I'm gonna play a game my community chooses: Scorn Thief: Gold Limbo Control Mechanicus Alan Wake Darkwood Sir, You Are Being Hunted Little Nightmares Which game should I play?! Lemme know!
neutral · AI labelView post →Conceptually, I should love this game and it doesn't necessarily do anything wrong but it also doesn't do anything right. Great atmosphere, dull and predictable random generated world. Cool enemies, boring and breakable game play. Loot random generated buildings, run past everything. Stealth? line of sight the loud robots in large empty fields. I would love for this concept to be revisited: A stealth game centered around constantly being hunted and survival. But this one aint it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ah, what a gem this game was in its time! I originally got it in a humble bundle or something and immensely enjoyed the premise. The gameplay was pretty simple, but at the time it was unique. Still is in my opinion. It just doesn't hold up over time, so I am hoping for a sequel or some remake of some sort. Could absolutely use multiplayer. It's like if Generation Zero met The Ship haha.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →technically this is a correct answer - I WAS looking for the video game 'Sir You Are Being Hunted' - but why is google roleplaying with me about it. (the linked page is not written in first-person.) bizarre
neutral · AI labelView post →I went into this game genuinely excited, but it didn’t take long for that enthusiasm to evaporate. The enemy AI is, without exaggeration, one of the weakest aspects of the entire experience. Enemies either stand still waiting to be shot, run in straight lines like they’re following a script from 2005, or get stuck on the environment in ways that completely break immersion. There’s no sense of strategy, no adaptation, no tension — just predictable patterns that make every encounter feel like a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I should love this game the concept is great, but the execution isn’t. The atmosphere is strong, yet the world feels dull. Enemies look cool, but the gameplay is repetitive, overly difficult, and you can run out of resources fast. You just loot, run past everything, and “stealth” means dodging loud robots in empty fields.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got this game way back when it was in early access. Finaly got around to finishing it, and damn it's still so good. I've lost hours of my life in this game, it's tense and exciting, you always feel in danger but still like a badass once you've got your hands on some weapons. I hope others buy it and enjoy it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Based purely on a single-player experience, I was going to give this game a thumbs down before I discovered something that bumped it up to a soft recommend. The gloomy environments give this game a nice atmosphere that is enhanced by the dark humor inherent to the premise, subtly woven into the narration and mechanics. The stealth mechanics are competent enough to produce some exciting, heart-pounding moments, and my experience finding my footing with the game left the kind impression not…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Remember that Futurama robot planet episode? It's literally that.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I only played for a couple hours so maybe I'm missing why this game has generally positive reviews. In my opinion hiding in long grass and the use of noise devises to lure enemies away wasn't enough to keep me entertained. I did like the different types of robot enemies and the scenery had a creepy vibe, but in the end the world felt empty for its size, on top of only being able to save in limited spots, after dyeing a few times I didn't want redo the progress I lost.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you've never played Sir, You Are Being Hunted then I recommend taking this as your sign to give it a whirl I never knew that I needed a devastatingly British, survival horror-comedy that invented tweedpunk until it turned up but now I love it
positive · AI labelView post →My favorite indie games: - I'm on Observation Duty - Botanicula - Dream Machine - Supermarket Simulator - Shotgun King - Unpacking - Bugsnax - Hidden Folks - Tormentum - Sir, You Are Being Hunted - Papers Please - To the Moon - Smushi come home - Bug Fables - Vampire Survivors - Carrion
positive · AI labelView post →Definitely overpriced but had countless fun runs with friends.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →game is dull, repetitive, and the multiplayer doesn't work, locahhost is the only way to get a server up and it doesn't allow for others to join
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Besides the spelling issue that's another cool and good name, and so is Sir You Are Being Hunted, also Haunting at Highrook You have a great ear for names, we should start a naming agency
neutral · AI labelView post →I have such fond memories with this game, the first early access game I ever supported. I love the unique concept.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was hunted in this game be warned you will be hunted in this game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Such a wasted potential. They never implemented entering buildings, because their NPC AI couldn't handle it. When you are overloaded you can't simply drop something on the ground to re-organise your inventory. Dropping an item deletes it. Ridiculous
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →
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