Saints Row IV: Re-Elected

Epic purposefully removed controller support upon their last update. Petty. Very Petty. Avoid this brand

This game is incredibly fun to play. Plus, no bugs, no glitches what so ever. Very happy playing this game.

Why does this game now automatically install Epic Online Services when it never used to do that? No thanks. Delete this.

Is it a good *Saints Row* game? FUCK no. Is it a good superhero game? Absolutely.

I originally played this game on the Xbox 360 years ago and really enjoyed the plot, dialogue, characters, gameplay style and mechanics so it's very difficult to not recommend this, but this version of the game is SO BUGGY. It makes enjoying the game virtually impossible and makes playing it incredibly frustrating.

The camera angles pan awkwardly, the game randomly crashes even on a gaming computer, and even when you try to exit the game, it freezes up so badly that I've had to log out of my computer and log back in just to fix it. A game being so bugged you can't even exit without it glitching out your entire computer would be laughable if it wasn't such a shame.

I would recommend a version of the game that isn't this buggy mess as it exists right now just because the actual game itself is pretty fun, but it's completely been ruined by bad updates. Most of the time achievements don't even register and as someone who enjoys achievement hunting, this really ticks me off.

I bought it on sale and still feel regret in buying it. I will most likely toil through just to try and finish the game, but the glitches really make playing it quite stressful and I already have enough stress in my life. GG

I played this game when it originally released on Xbox 360 and it worked wonderfully then and was enjoyable to play. However the current version of this game on Steam crashes constantly shortly after booting up with absolutely no warning, making it impossible to play let alone progress through. A shame - I remember it being a good game to goof off in.

Apologies but this game kinda sucks. It's fun for all of like MAYBE 10-15 hours, 20 if you're lucky, but trying to get the achievements and suffer through this game is a better torture method than what most countries have.

love the game but at one point it just crashes shortley after pulling the game up making it unplayable

The game contains a trojan now, you need to go to the files, delete "SaintsRowIV.exe" and rename "sr_hv.exe" to "SaintsRowIV" so that the game does not try to install the EGS launcher on your PC.

Very good saints row game. I think its fun and funny, the gameplay is good and so are the characters. The customization is also good for the time. All together a very good game

It aged surprisingly well to be honest. Maybe it's because Far Cry 6 left a bad taste in my mouth, but this is the kind of open-world fun which seems to have been discarded these days in exchanged for generic checklist-based open world slogs.

Give it another shot, I think it deserves it.

I tried giving this a chance but it's just too goofy and lame. It's like they looked at Crackdown (2007) and made a worse version of it then filled it with humor they found on facebook and called it Saints Row 4 for brand recognition. It also doesn't really play too well and somehow still has bugs nearly 12 years after it's release. This is just personal taste, but I also just find the activities you do in this game annoying rather than fun compared to the ones of the older games in the series. I also find that the soundtrack is kind of ass compared to the first 3 games. You also need to install files from Epic to play this game now which was apparently added when they upgraded to the reelected edition. Maybe this was a better game to play in 2013, but I doubt it. It doesn't seem like this game was made by the same people who made SR 1-3.

I love this game but damn it is unplayable as is. Game freezes constantly, certain events pull your joystick to the side making them unbeatable, character models float around randomly. After I decapitated an alien, his head and neck model was stuck to my character for hours.

Saints Row IV: Re-Elected is a remastered version of the 2013 action-adventure game that takes the series' trademark over-the-top gameplay to new heights of absurdity and fun. As the leader of the Saints street gang turned President of the United States, you find yourself battling an alien invasion with an array of superpowers at your disposal.

Gameplay
The game's standout feature is its superpowered gameplay. You can leap over buildings, run at incredible speeds, and wield elemental abilities like shooting fire and ice projectiles or using telekinesis. These powers fundamentally change how you interact with the open world, making traditional vehicles largely obsolete. As you progress, you can upgrade these abilities using collectible "data clusters" scattered throughout the city, allowing for further customization of your playstyle. The variety of activities is impressive, ranging from traditional shooting and racing to more outlandish scenarios like fighting zombies, piloting tanks, and even using a dubstep gun to disrupt 1950s Americana.1 This diversity keeps the gameplay fresh and entertaining throughout.

Story and Setting
The game is set in a simulation of Steelport, the fictional city from Saints Row: The Third, with a sci-fi twist. The story parodies various elements of pop culture, including science fiction games like Mass Effect 2, films such as The Matrix, and other aspects of "nerd culture". Some missions delve into the personal hells of your crew members, adding depth to the characters and variety to the gameplay. While the narrative is intentionally ridiculous, it serves its purpose of providing a framework for the game's outrageous scenarios and humor.

Visuals and Performance
Re-Elected offers a noticeable visual improvement over the original last-gen versions, with higher resolution, improved lighting, and slightly more detailed character models. However, it's not a dramatic overhaul and still falls short of the original PC version's graphics. Performance can be inconsistent, with an uncapped frame rate that often fluctuates between 30-45 fps under load. This can lead to an uneven experience, affecting aspects like car handling and aiming precision during combat.

Content and Value
Re-Elected includes all the DLC from the original release, including two short expansions: "Enter the Dominatrix" and "How the Saints Save Christmas". It also comes with "Gat Out of Hell", a standalone adventure that takes place in a hellish version of Steelport, adding 4-6 hours of additional gameplay.4 This package offers substantial content for both newcomers and returning players.

Conclusion
Saints Row IV: Re-Elected is a chaotic, superpowered playground that prioritizes fun over realism. Its greatest strengths lie in its ridiculous premise, varied gameplay, and the sheer joy of navigating the world with superpowers. While the superpowers offer some of the best world traversal in open-world gaming, other aspects of the game are merely competent.

The game's humor and story may not appeal to everyone, and technical issues can sometimes hamper the experience. However, for those seeking an over-the-top, action-packed adventure that doesn't take itself seriously, Saints Row IV: Re-Elected delivers an entertaining, if somewhat uneven, experience.

Great game, but sadly is riddled with bugs and whatnot. Infinite loading screens, sudden freezes, stop progression bugs, invisible vehicles, etc. I hope they get a bug fix in the future.
Edit: Turns out the issues with the legacy version were caused by Volition's horrible handling of the gamepad driver ( the same thing happens with Gat Out of Hell ). Sure, I have no issue playing with mouse and keyboard, but I really wanted to try to experience this game with the gamepad.

Dieses Spiel ist eine reinste Vollkatastrophe. Ich habe das Gefühl mit einem 11-jährigen im Ranked zu sein, der nichts anderes zu tun hat, als das Game zu trollen. Dieses Spiel ist der Amazon-Fahrer, der anklingelt und 2 Sekunden später wieder fährt. Ich danke Alice Weidel für die Programmierung dieses Spiels, aber die ganzen Bugs bringen mich auch nicht dazu, die AfD zu wählen. GTA in Besser? Eher Grand Theft Absturz. Ich kann dieses Spiel für alle empfehlen, die nie was zu Ende bringen und ein Gehirn in der Größe eines Trump-Wählers haben. Leute, wenn ich euch einen Tipp geben kann, geht lieber Fortnite oder Farmville spielen, denn alles ist besser als das Produkt von Satan höchstpersönlich.

love this game but hate that my cutscenes are a little square in the middle and all black around like wtf lmao..
so far on steam i think i only have this type of problem with saintsrow 4 and maxpayne 3.. hope they can fix this someday

Only played Saints row 3 4 and 5 but this one is still the best. Not much use for vehicles but the weapons and guns are over the top and overall the game doesn't feel like a grind. SR5 is gets a little boring .

Dumb fun.

It's not as good as SR 2 or 3, but it IS fun. Looking back at Saints Row 3, it toed the line of being almost too wacky (sometimes going over it). SR4 runs over that line without ever looking back, but it still somehow works. Your partners in crime are all zany and fun and completely over the top. Your super powers are insane. The story makes no sense, but that's okay.

Older Saints Row games were better, but this was a good way to wrap things up for a franchise that became increasingly over the top with each new game.

It gets flak, justifiably so, but it's a lot of fun when the tutorials shut up, and that's all you can ask for from a game,

Still one of the better character creators of all time.

It is such a creative game

to play any of the supposedly included dlc, you have to connect to epic. that is not in the description. you can't play any dlc in the legacy build, you only get half of the product you bought. either return the dlc to the store so everyone can play or be warned, it will end badly for you.

One of my favorite games and something with good play again value <3

GTA clone that's way more fun, but in a completely ridiculous, parody kind of way. Your character VERY quickly learns some pretty overpowering abilities that make combat pleasantly entertaining rather than particularly challenging (at normal difficulty). There are also lots of fun and creative weapons to experiment with. I first played this when it was relatively new, and found it just as enjoyable to come back to years later.

Some of the humor is definitely cringey and tiresome, and the main character can be rather annoying (such as shouting every time you pick up a data cluster). But if you enjoy open worlds, irreverent humor and seeing your character get stronger, it has quite a lot to offer. Just don't expect a remotely serious story. What you CAN expect is FUN.

Fun game and even more fun with friends but it continues to disconnect every 10-20mins

The game is Saint's Row, so you know it's fun.

But this game has issues.

First, why the hell do the waypoints I set on the map? If I set a waypoint, and I go to the location, and I complete that mission, and I load the map, and I set the waypoint to my next destination -- the game *THEN* decides to REMOVE THE WAYPOINT. and set the waypoint to be WHATEVER THE CURRENT STORY MISSION IS.

Absolutely counter-productive to the whole concept of what a way point is.

To add further frustration and insult to the injury caused by this baffling and ridiculous bug, if I then hit the map button to go back into the map, and I hover the cursor on the map to set a waypoint -- I must set the waypoint TWICE. The first time, NOTHING HAPPENS -- and the game leaves it on the storyline mission entrance that already overwrote my waypoint. The second time, it'll restore the waypoint. This is, naturally, a short-lived fixed -- because the moment I finish the next mission, even if I set the waypoint as soon as possible after the mission ends, the game goes ahead and THROWS MY DECISION AWAY!

Fallout 3, New Vegas, 4, 76 -- DO NOT do this.

GTA 4, 5 -- DO NOT do this.

Bully doesn't do this.

NO other game which has an open-world and 3d-map and waypoint capability -- goes ahead and spits in my face like Saint's Row 4 does.

Also. if you want to do anything online, good luck. The company that made these is gone. There's a 3rd-party 'MySteelport' server you have to run and integrate with DNS before you can achieve the achievements related to sharing customers. You can find it at -- https://www.saintsrowmods.com/forum/threads/my-steelport-emulator.17361/ ... the documentation fails to mention that the 'MySteelport' application listens on TCP :443, so ensure that port is open before you attempt to use it (in my case, Visual Studio had already claimed it because of HTTPS reasons, and the 'MySteelPort' unhelpfully barfs a .NET stack trace and dies instead of going, "I can't listen on port 443" like a decently written piece of software would; so even the mod community is rough around the edges).

I played this on the 360 not too long after release and remember liking it.
It sure does hold up over the years, and now that I am a bit older and have played more games, I am understanding a lot more of the jokes than I think I did in the past.
+1

DONT BOTHER BUYING ON STEAM ever since the last update forcing to connect an Epic games account you are much better off getting the game on Epic nothing i did for the steam port made it run more than 15fps but as soon as i installed it from the Epic game store it runs perfectly fine

It was ruined by the latest update that nobody asked for, some cool mods can't unable to play and crashed the game. even without a mods, it's also a random crash anytime. Devs can't fix it since 2023

I get the whole discourse about the purity of Saints Row and how this title kinda changed it forever or buried the series...but I can't say I didn't have fun with this one!

There are things many don't like, me included...like the fact that the map remained the exact same as in 3rd game, with some modifications here & there because of the alien subplot...It is kinda lazy but after playing the 3rd & 4th game back to back, I did not mind it much, because of familiarity.

The game itself has crazy superpowers and feels like Saints Row 3 with mods but...once again, it was a blast, for a lack of a better term! I loved running around and killi g every single alien or gangs and to mess around, getting stronger and stronger. It is worth to grind and upgrade yourself as you become stupidly powerful and I dig that shit.

Sure, I can say that the rest of the games are better in so many ways but I didn't mind the shift for this one as I enjoyed my time and for me, that mattered more to me than the purity of the series.

This is my second time playing through this series of Saints Row. I love this installment! The music is great and gameplay is fun as well. My only complaint is that the game will sometimes crash on me, and bring me back to my desktop screen as well as the graphics not being smooth all the time but it doesn't bother me enough to keep me from enjoying the playthrough.

It was really good game...once...and then the last "upgrade" or should I say Epic made this unplayable.
I really hope that it will be fixed in future.
Congratulations Epic, you fucked it up :(

Thanks to some brilliant update to include Epic Launcher to this Steam game, this 12 year old game is now borderline unplayable because dips below 20 fps on the main menu on a fairly beefy machine that can run any modern game without any issues.
Perhaps Epic is mining crypto in the background to bounce back from paying for all these exclusives and freebies.

Oh, the controller support is also gone as well.

F*ck Epic, f*ck Volition.

This game was good and everything worked fine but Steam destroyed my save (entire progress) by upgrading it to Reelected version and connecting it to Epic Games. Thanks..

I've only ever dabbled in Saints Row but this one is by far my favorite. I know the powers made everyone upset when this game released but honestly it just reminds me of Prototype & Crackdown and that's all I need: fun movement and a reason to use it.

I like this game and would love to recommend it, but I can't because it is a complete and utter bug-fest. Most of the achievements don't work, a bunch of the activities are buggy and worst of all, I am 96% into the story and I can't finish the Grand Finale because of a bug that has existed for at least 6 years.
This Re-Elected patch has broken 99% of mods and has fixed absolutely nothing.

Nice, but there's only one problem on Linux you can play only in offline mode :/ So I don't have time on account but I have achievements xD

Played this game on Xbox in the past. i would reconmend the game if you love shot-em up and collection based games. definaly snag the game if you like the series or gun games in a whole. some outdated jokes but over all a good addition to a whole

Playing co-op is impossible. Every 10 minutes you'll have random disconnects for no reason at all.

Its like trying passion fruit for the first time.
You either like it, or you just go out and get some mango juice.

Really funny, and a well made game to this day. Very fun.

As in my previous review I referred to SR4 as non-canon or part of the series, I've recently come back to play How the Saints saved Christmas during the holidays and was pleasantly surprised by the missions, I also came back to play the story mode to realize its actually not a very bad game at all, quite an enjoyable experience full of lots of laughs and good moments, and the super powers are just kickass, the only downsides to the game I'd say is that it can be quite buggy at times. 7/10

IF YOU PLAY WITH A CONTROLLER YOU ARE SOL AS CONTROLLER SUPPORT HAS BEEN COMPLETELY REMOVED FROM THE GAME. WITH VOLITION GAME THERES NO CHANCE OF THIS BEING CHANGED.

Because of the crossplay update.
There are still a lot of crashing, endless load loops.
You are forced to select the legacy beta if you want to play this game as it was meant to be played.
Crossplay works only if you are on Epic. Both Steam and GOG versions of the game tend to not work in multiplayer.

Tried to log in and play after a couple of years. For some random, reason on my STEAM game, I keep getting an unskippable request for my birth date and my e-mail.

When I payed for this game, it wouldn't force pause and ask for my personal information. I can't refund it now, but I can and will give you a negative review for this violation of privacy and a decade old game.

Saints Row IV is - essentially - a game that shipped in a half-finished state and never received the base level of polish ANY game should have before daring to ask for money, despite also receiving DLCs since the original release.
The premise is fun, and something that works really well for the tone and writing of Saints Row, especially since the surreal SRIII. It purposely jumps the shark and sets up a scifi story that allows the game to reference important moments from all of the previous Saints Row games. It parodies mass effect, it parodies They Live at one point, but most importantly it's (theoretically) a loving parody of Saints Row itself, meant to send off the pre-reboot franchise with a final bang. However, due to the constant jank, bad animations, weird sound design, "novel" gameplay moments that are either barebones, too long, or too short, and a whole plethora of other things, it actually ends up spitting on the grave of Saints Row and epitomizing absolutely every criticism people had of III. If you write out all the special sequences and story beats, it reads like a creative genre-bending love letter, in practice, it feels like playing a lazy C-grade school game coding project. Honestly what drags SRIV even lower is just how good it would be if Volition tried, even a little bit.

Still better than the Saints Row reboot, and that's saying something. Also when you buy it, make sure to revert to the OG version of SRIV, because the Epic Games version is total poopoo.


R.I.P. Volition, you didn't have to be held at gunpoint like that by the other companies that you were working with. Fuck Deep Silver and Embracer Group

This game is amazing, one of my favorites if you want to play this game for any reason just buy it on console.

Epic games ruined this port by adding a bunch of third party stuff that completely breaks the game. I've played this game on ps4/ps5 works perfect there. If you want to get it running on steam you need to switch to legacy. F**K these companies that keep adding third party stuff to games so old that they can't even use any parts of it. Good job breaking another game epic.

I feel like with the release of the reboot this game garnered more of a liking and less hatred. Personally I loved this game when it first released back in 2013 but I understand why the hatred was warranted. I am in the huge majority that SR2 was peak but after that Volition became very obsessed with the question, "How more crazy can we go?" Of course this same question was a death sentence for the franchise.

Is it a good SR game? No but yes. Volition put a lot of love into making this game especially doing so many call backs to the old games. At least they didn't forget where they came from back then. Volition also pulled a 'Conker's Bad Fur Day' in terms of how many pop culture references can they squeeze into one game. Is it a fun game? Absolutely.

I know this feels very like a huge expansion considering its the same map and reused assets. This is because it originally was a DLC for Saint Row 3. Volition however started putting too much time and budget into the project that it eventually morphed into a standalone title. I do wonder how different things would of went if it did turn into a DLC and not Saints Row IV.

If they did intent for the main character to become the president they at least could of created a new map. That being Washington D.C. In the beginning we only see a small glimpse with the Washington Monument. I think they could of did some really fun things with that setting. If they were going absurd to the max they should of just went the full drive and showed us a saintified D.C.

If you plan on playing the game for the love of everything holy please do not play the version Volition left with us that hooks up and automatically launches to Epic Games Store. The game runs like absolute crap. Go to the properties and opt yourself into the beta under sriv_legacy. It'll revert back to the original playable build that negates Epic Games Store and plays from Steam.

Requires some stupid Epic Store app to play. Screw that, buddy.
It's a fun game otherwise (didn't always require anything 3rd party)