The Evil Within 2
The Evil Within 2
Game
Game2014
The Evil Within
Developer Tango Gameworks
The Evil Within is a 2014 survival horror game developed by Tango Gameworks and published by Bethesda Softworks. It was directed by Resident Evil series creator Shinji Mikami. The game centers on protagonist Sebastian Castellanos as he is pulled through a distorted world full of nightmarish locations and horrid creatures. Played in a third-person perspective, players battle disfigured nightmare-like enemies,… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
430 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
78
LovedLoved
228 positive · 65 negative
95% range 73–82%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 228 | 65 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 39 | 3 | 72 |
| Mastodon * | 7 | 0 | 15 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
9,181 of 11,622 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
79% recommend · 199 yes, 54 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 253 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (28,848 of 33,845 positive).
Players praise the game's atmosphere, art style, and horror elements. [1][2][3] Some reviewers note technical issues, especially on modern PCs. [4][5][6] A few players find the game frustrating due to difficulty spikes and design choices. [7][8]
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Representative posts
- [7]
A truly obnoxious survival horror game that takes pleasure in torturing you. Don't get me wrong, the story is really cool, the atmosphere is top tier, and the horror is glorious. The combat is also fun and rewarding at times, however! Don't celebrate just yet. What ruined this game for me is the ultra annoying boss fights, and a few areas that have hideous difficultly spikes. I played this game back in 2014, I hated …
- [1]
The story is weird, the monsters are horrific, the ammo is always running out, and half the game feels like a fever dream. It's clunky in places, but the atmosphere is incredible and some of the creature designs still live rent-free in my head. I don't know what was happening half the time, but I was having a great time being terrified.
- [15]
After 160+ hours and unlocking every achievement, here’s my honest review : The Evil Within is the best horror game out there, and to this day, nothing has come close to its level. It should be the benchmark for horror game developers. It’s a shame the series stopped after the second game.
- [12]
Very underrated, ignore the "It doesn't make sense it's just random scenarios reviews," it'll make sense if you play the game for more than the first 3 chapters. This game isn't just a Resident Evil Clone, it is technically a hybrid of RE gameplay and Silent Hill Storytelling with a lot of heavy inspiration from them. Gameplay wise it's very simple and dated, but if you aren't a total Redditor Nerd who only cares …
- [2]
The Evil Within is a great game, but it's not for everyone. The Evil Within has so many disturbing visuals that it will make you feel sick, both mentally and physically. So, I will reccomend The Evil within only if you're a fan of horror games and lots of gore.
Summarised from 34 of the 364 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 10, 2026. How summaries are made
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Players who liked The Evil Within talk about incredible atmosphere and art direction; those who didn't talk about poor optimization and technical issues on PC. Which matters more to you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The Evil Within received "generally favorable" reviews from critics for the Xbox One and PS4 versions, while the PC version received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator website Metacritic. Computer and Video Games (CVG) described it as "the game Resident Evil 5 should have been", although they were critical of some technical issues. VideoGamer.com liked the gunplay and horror, but disliked the story and its pacing, stating: "The Evil Within has enough magic to make it a worthy investment." Destructoid said: "[The game] will definitely scratch the itch of someone who has been pining for a return to the older days of gaming, but everyone else who has come to expect that…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 430 · most liked first'I should finally play The Evil Within 2' I says to myself. 'I've never played it before.' Installs game. Boots game. Sees 'New Game Plus' option. Hmmm. Oh. I have a save file that shows I finished the game. In 2021. Yep, don't remember doing that at all I'm fine everything's fine. Just fine.
neutral · AI labelView post →A reminder that Post Trauma, a survival-horror game with a love of fixed camera angles, limited saves, inventory management, & The Evil Within, releases today (in less than 3 hours from the time of writing) on PC/Steam, PS5, & Xbox S/X for $14.99 USD.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tango Gameworks (Hi-Fi Rush, The Evil Within) has officially relaunched, with a new look, website, and hiring for an unannounced action game. The studio was closed by Microsoft a few years after its acquisition, but revived by Krafton. (Tango Gameworks site)
neutral · AI labelView post →how are the Evil Within games? Worth picking up without DLC with one other game for like $10 on Fanatical?
neutral · AI labelView post →3. The Evil Within 2 I've got a lot of love for the Evil Within games, the first game wasn't amazing, but it was one of the first modern Survival Horror games I really loved since the PS1 era. The second was a big improvement, and will always stick with me.
positive · AI labelView post →Some games leave you with memories of the journey. Others leave you wondering whether you ever truly made it out. The Evil Within is one of those experiences that makes it difficult to trust anything you see, hear, or think you understand. From the moment Sebastian Castellanos arrives at Beacon Mental Hospital, the world begins to fall apart in ways that never quite make sense. Places change, reality slips away, and every answer seems to lead somewhere even darker. What makes this game…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Evil Within ended up being a game I sorta managed to get through, with some serious effort, I still kept getting anxiety spikes with it, but I played with an extremely detailed walkthrough and could only manage it for short 20 minute or so sessions at a time before it got so bad I had to stop.
neutral · AI labelView post →How is it possible that The Evil Within has aged so flawlessly. Unbelievably excellent art direction in this game. Maybe some of horror’s best?
positive · AI labelView post →I sketched this during a VC a couple nights ago. I was playing The Evil Within and I felt compelled to draw both Wile E and Sylvester as Sebastian and Joseph from the first game hehe #LooneyTunes
neutral · AI labelView post →The story is weird, the monsters are horrific, the ammo is always running out, and half the game feels like a fever dream. It's clunky in places, but the atmosphere is incredible and some of the creature designs still live rent-free in my head. I don't know what was happening half the time, but I was having a great time being terrified.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tonight at 8:30PM EST is The Evil Within, a game about hanging out with your coworkers inside of a crazy machine. It's also a game about watching Shinji Mikami try to resist making a normal videogame as he's slowly fed into the 2014 AAA meatgrinder.
neutral · AI labelView post →You will like my indie game if you played these games: - Resident Evil 2☂️ - Silent Hill 2👩⚕️ - Signalis📻 - The Evil Within⛓️
neutral · AI labelView post →I was a guest (alongside @proxidist.bsky.social) at the new episode of Quad Damage Podcast. This was so fun and I'm so grateful for the invitation. We talked about F.E.A.R., Lost in Vivo, The Evil Within, how horrorvisuals came to be, and why Doom 3 is the perfect survival horror game. 😈
neutral · AI labelView post →39th game beat of 2025: The Evil Within (PC)
neutral · AI labelView post →Choose 20 games that greatly influence you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. Day 18: The Evil Within #games #gameschallenge
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight at 8:30PM EST we continue The Evil Within. A game that landed in the worst possible era for anything weird or ambitious. Time’s been surprisingly kind to it. See you then.
positive · AI labelView post →After 160+ hours and unlocking every achievement, here’s my honest review : The Evil Within is the best horror game out there, and to this day, nothing has come close to its level. It should be the benchmark for horror game developers. It’s a shame the series stopped after the second game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This has to be one of the funniest game overs ive ever saw in video games. Game: The Evil Within. Platform: PC.
neutral · AI labelView post →Here’s a throwback picture I took of an outfit inspired by Kidman from the Evil Within! ✨ Those games were incredible and I felt a big connection to them, I’m so sad we won’t be getting a third game 😤
positive · AI labelView post →I’ve played Outlast, I’ve played Amnesia, mostly every Silent Hill, The Evil Within, Resident Evil, but THIS SHIT Is the scariest thing I’ve ever encountered in a video game.
neutral · AI labelView post →First of all, this game has issues on modern hardware. It has a broken frame limiter which reduces the framerate regardless of hardware. To fix it you have to add this "+r_swapinterval 0" command to the games's launch options. To do that, open you steam library right click the game and click on the Properties tab, and paste the command (without "") in the Launch Options box. This fixes the frame limiter however the game still has stutter and bad framepacing even if you limit it at 60. To fix…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A truly obnoxious survival horror game that takes pleasure in torturing you. Don't get me wrong, the story is really cool, the atmosphere is top tier, and the horror is glorious. The combat is also fun and rewarding at times, however! Don't celebrate just yet. What ruined this game for me is the ultra annoying boss fights, and a few areas that have hideous difficultly spikes. I played this game back in 2014, I hated it then, and I hate it now. When your brain starts sending you messages like…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →THE PIE CANNON HAS GONE SILENT I AM INDEED A LAVALAMP CAN I GRILL MEAT ON KARLACH'S ABS ASKING FOR A FRIEND BATTERIES MEET THE CRITERIA TO BE CONSIDERED HOT DOGS THE EVIL WITHIN IS THE BEST GAME OF ALL TIME I TASTE LIKE GRAPE [REDACTED] THE CALLISTO PROTOCOL DESERVES A SEQUEL ASK ME FOR THE WIFI PW
positive · AI labelView post →Something The Sinking City 2 reminded me of a little, was The Evil Within 2. That game had a sort of mini open-world, a town location you traversed and visited more linear sections, and this does something similar; We have a little boat with which we explore and travel to and from set locations.
neutral · AI labelView post →I love this game and am one of its biggest knob slobbers. It used to run pretty fine on PC. I don't know when it happened but now it's often nigh unplayable to the extent of it flickering and crashing before the main menu. Ch. 8 end hallway. Additionally, locking poison and incendiary behind pre-order without any way of getting it is pretty lame.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do Not Buy The Steam Version Of This Game!!! The game was not made to work on certain PCs at least that's what I've been experiencing with it. For some odd reason this game doesn't run well at all on modern hardware and the developers never initiated a patch for it. The black screen of death is very common in this game and user's have reported a whole list of issues in it. Should have been called "The Broken Variant"
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The city: (In the midst of earthquake chaos) The merry go round: 🎶🎠🎶 Game: The Evil Within. Platform: PC.
neutral · AI labelView post →Doesn't run on modern PC's. After the first start, the screen begins flickering every time I try to start up the game and it gets stuck trying to load. While it's in that state, it's impossible to ALT + TAB out of the game and my monitor's resolution turns to 800x600. Only way to fix things is via the old reliable Task Manager. Apparently there's fixes online like downloading third party software and such and while I'm not opposed to fixing up older games, I shouldn't have to try and fix a game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Evil Within is a great game, but it's not for everyone. The Evil Within has so many disturbing visuals that it will make you feel sick, both mentally and physically. So, I will reccomend The Evil within only if you're a fan of horror games and lots of gore.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Oh, The Evil Within turned ten. Real game, that. Broadly misunderstood and unappreciated. Criticised for the very things that made it interesting. I love you, The Evil Within. I understood you.
positive · AI labelView post →silent hills aesthetics and resident evils gunplay and mechanics = evil within very good game would recommend dont listen to youtube reviews let yourself decide.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Stealth in horror games be like. Game: The Evil Within. Platform: PC.
neutral · AI labelView post →I replayed the evll within 1 and 2 so many times on Xbox 360 to PS3/4 and now on pc I cannot describe my love for this game 10 out of 10 even in 2026 still holds better than most games now they don't make games like this anymore sadly
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Way to insult me for picking easy mode Bethesda. Game: The Evil Within Platform: PC
neutral · AI labelView post →unplayable on amd gpus unless you want to play it windowed which ruins the experience
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →⚡️ NEW: Help design a brand new game from The Evil Within artist Ikumi Nakamura! 🎮 💼 Game Designer 🏢 UNSEEN Inc. 🇯🇵 Tokyo 📃 Full Time 🎚 Intermediate 🏷 #GameDesign, #TheEvilWithin, #GameDev hitmarker.net/jobs/unseen...
neutral · AI labelView post →Introduction: Definitely install the 4K cutscenes mod + you can also unlock the FPS and play at 144 FPS. At first, I thought this would break the game, but nope - I completed the entire game without any issues. I’d also recommend upgrading sprint to at least level 4; personally, I consider it a must-have. As for everything else, you’ll figure out along the way what feels more important and useful to you. Pros: + Visual style. The enemies, locations, and overall vibe are presented in a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Allow me to preface this with saying that should you beat this game on any difficulty, I will personally consider you a top tier horror game player. Half of the horror from this game comes from the jank, and not in a bad way. It can actually feel like a challenge, and the more you learn about the game, the better off you are in the end. The game of course has plenty of ways it can be exploited, though even with the exploits, you’re never too far away from getting sent to last checkpoint. The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game! I was a bit worried with how scarce the resources are but the game really provides everything necessery. The effort to make this game rich in new areas is also something to be commended. Lore is uniquely disturbing and the whole setting is a grotesque nightmare. That being said, the only thing that I can find lacking is some sauce to the characters, but that's okidoki.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I haven’t been humbled by a Horror game this badly since The Evil Within (I love it)
positive · AI labelView post →I REALLY wanted to like this game. I went in invested in the story, atmosphere, and gameplay loop, and for a while I was genuinely having a great time. But once I hit chapter 10, this game started testing the absolute hell out of my patience. The jank was already there, but the INSANELY QUESTIONABLE DESIGN CHOICES started piling up to the point where I was dying over and over again on Standard difficulty, just sitting there thinking, what the ♥♥♥♥ does this game actually want from me? And…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A bad game and control design, and VERY badly optimised for PC... first game I've played that has stealth where the button to crouch is the same button for going into a space to hide, so you have to leave stealth for a second in order to hide, truly dumb design as it screws you over at times where time is often of the essence. Despite it being third person don't expect the the camera view to do much for you, it may as well be first person. Bad game design example: Laying under a bed to hide…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Imma be honest I had this game since 2022 and never finished it because it terrified me so much that I was unable to keep playing it... Recently decided to beat my fears and finish it and... IT WAS THE BEST DECISION EVER! I LOVE THIS GAME SO MUCH, LOWKEY FRUSTRATING AT SOME POINTS BUT STILL HAD SO MUCH FUN!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Bear Talks Games: The Evil Within I & II." It's funny how our feelings and relationship towards art can be... so mercurial, how the wrong mood at the wrong time can sour an impression but time and perspective can soften it into something kinder. We talk about art like...
neutral · AI labelView post →The way i BOLTED out the room when Ruvik made himself known. Game: The Evil Within. Platform: PC.
neutral · AI labelView post →Very underrated, ignore the "It doesn't make sense it's just random scenarios reviews," it'll make sense if you play the game for more than the first 3 chapters. This game isn't just a Resident Evil Clone, it is technically a hybrid of RE gameplay and Silent Hill Storytelling with a lot of heavy inspiration from them. Gameplay wise it's very simple and dated, but if you aren't a total Redditor Nerd who only cares about modern gaming without realizing games don't need to be perfect to be fun,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Evil Within is a horror survival game that is about an investigation of what seems to be mass homocide at Beacon Mental Hospital in Krimson City, but things turn out to be much more deep and sinister than what all of this comes across at the beginning. First off, the protagonist of this game, Detective Sebastian Castellanos is a very emotionless, stale and boring person who doesn't seem to get affected by anything, even though he had endure things that would drive a normal person to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While I work towards the Silent Hill 2 platinum, do I hate myself enough to try for the Evil Within one, too? 🤔 (I love the game, but that means doing AKUMU mode, so... dying in one-hit 💀)
positive · AI labelView post →First playthrough review time. The Evil Within is an old school survival horror game with slow and somewhat heavy controls. The game has a dark atmosphere, with ruined buildings, old medical areas, rusty places and damaged surroundings. The locations have a style that can remind you of older survival horror games. The pacing is mostly medium, so there is usually something happening and puzzles are present but quite rare and mostly simple. The visuals still look good in many areas. The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What game should I play next? - Resident Evil Village - Cronos - Alan Wake 2 - The Evil Within
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is so special to my heart - it's one of my first "serious" solo speedruns. I've speedran this game for 6+ years on and off, and it's one of the games I genuinely enjoy speedrunning at any point. And after 5+ years of submitting this, The Evil Within 2 will be at SGDQ26 <3
positive · AI labelView post →ts dont even load, just gives me a black screen i cant exit out of until i alt+f4
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Incredible atmosphere, incredible art style, pretty hard in some sections, overall an incredible game, a masterpiece, 10/10.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you're experiencing a flickering black screen from the game to desktop, here's a fix; Ultrawide fix: https://www.flawlesswidescreen.org/ Select The Evil Within Plugin in the program. If your monitor's scaling is different from the native scaling (100%) and it is causing the game to scale incorrectly. 1. Go into the game's installation folder 2. Right click EvilWithin.exe and select properties 3. Go to the "compatibility" tab 4. Click "Change high DPI settings" 5. Tick "override high dpi…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →OFC the relationship between Sebastian and Joseph in The Evil Within game inspired me to make a parody with my two dorks 😆 #oc #ocsky #jun #juto #bl
neutral · AI labelView post →30 Days of Video Games Challenge. Day 23: First Pre-Order Ghostwire Tokyo Another underrated great game created by Tango Gameworks. The same company that made The Evil Within games and Hi-Fi Rush. Love every single moment while playing this one. 🔥
neutral · AI labelView post →Now do Dishonored, Hi-fi Rush, The Evil Within, and Ghostwire: Tokyo. Not every game succeeds. Every studio fails sometimes. Spencer and the other neckties (and you, I guess) think they can thin the deck to only bangers and that's just not how art works.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'M LIVE Y'ALL with more of The Evil Within! I can't wait to get back to this game. Twitch.tv/azhure_kylar
positive · AI labelView post →I'M LIVE Y'ALL. We're playing The Evil Within tonight, and I'm really excited about it. I love this game and it's been a few years since I've played it Twitch.tv/azhure_kylar
positive · AI labelView post →so, I just finished this game on casual mode. 71 deaths, took me 13 hours ( for my first ever playthrough ). when I first got the game, I honestly had low expectations. I had seen so many bad reviews. "bad voice acting", "sebastian is stupid/slow", "story makes no sense", "instakill enemies", "graphics are dingy". blah blah blah. -- SPOILERS BELOW FOR STORYLINE -- firstly, I do think the voice acting could've had some more power behind it. Sebastian has some good sound effects, but overall…
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