Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath

Problems players report

We read the 179 most recent negative Steam reviews of Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath on 30 August 2026 and counted what they mention. These are complaints, not confirmed defects: we have not reproduced any of them, and a review describes one person's machine. What the counts tell you is which problems more than one person ran into.

1. Crashes and freezes38 of 179 (21%)

   Here's a selection: At first, the game would launch as expected, but freeze during the opening cutscene (by which I mean the movie simply stopped bothering to continue playing, but without the game actually crashing).

   Steam review, 10 May 2018 · 1 hours played · 60 readers marked it helpful

   Keep that in mind for the review below.== Beware users of Intel drivers, this game will immediately crash under many circumstances.

   Steam review, 3 March 2014 · 9 hours played · 59 readers marked it helpful

2. Performance and stutter16 of 179 (9%)

   What I can't look past is the constant crashes and poor optimization.

   Steam review, 27 February 2016 · 0 hours played · 8 readers marked it helpful

   It has random fps drops and is unplayable due to random black screens.

   Steam review, 26 October 2014 · 2 hours played · 8 readers marked it helpful

3. Will not launch or install12 of 179 (7%)

   Other frequent issues I've seen thoughout my research include: -Crashes occuring in the tutorial level -Game succeeding in loading main menu to only show a black screen.

   Steam review, 3 March 2014 · 9 hours played · 59 readers marked it helpful

   Can't even launch the game, Just keeps crashing.

   Steam review, 22 December 2014 · 0 hours played · 6 readers marked it helpful

A further 22 reviews call the game buggy or broken without saying how, which is why they are counted separately rather than assigned to a theme. Counted by keyword across review text, so a review discussing two problems is counted under both. Read the reviews yourself.