A heroine trapped in a buggy MMO, and reality corrupting itself with every hour spent inside.

The profile is rough, and it has to be said plainly. Controller in hand, Death End Re;Quest drags at the very bottom, ahead of barely 7% of games. The soundtrack hits rock bottom, ahead of just 3%. Attachment and rediscovery also stay low on the board. One clearing only, the art style, which climbs back above average, ahead of nearly 60% of titles. All of this on few votes, so to confirm, but the trend is clear, a game that wins the eye far more than the hand.

Against turn-based Japanese RPGs, its game-within-a-game concept intrigues, but its mechanics and music struggle to convince a community spoiled by the genre.

So, for who? For you if you latch onto a singular visual world and a plot that blurs the line with the real. Much less if you want feel-good play or a soundtrack that sticks in your head first.