BioShock™ Remastered

It is great if you persist through countless crashes and losses of game saves.

Constant crashes. Tried every recommended solution, nothing fixed it. This game should not be offered for sale in its current state. Do not buy.

Avoid the remaster, I played it on Steam and it is incredibly buggy - as in "you cannot continue the game" buggy. If you can get hold of the original version, play that instead, it's incredible and a classic

As a fan of the "shock" games I was looking forward to playing this remaster. The remaster is enjoyable, well it would be but the constant crash to desktop renders the game unplayable. A huge disappointment. Brought on sale so I'll hang on for the original.

The game itself is fantastic, one of my top 5 games of all time, despite it showings his age in several key elements such as graphical options, game saving system or couple gameplay design choices. I played the original game (not the remastered version) for the first time on Steam in 2010, back when it was still bundled with the horrible Games For Windows : it ran fine, never had any technical issue. I played the game maybe 4 times all together (on Steam) : no issue I also played Bioshock Remastered, Steam version; and it ran ok. The Bioshock 2 Remastered (Steam) version was the one who gave me so much trouble that I quit playing. I just couldn't bear the huge amount of crashes. Well well. I've been trying to play the GOG version (not remastered) for over 10 hours now : it is a technical mess that keeps crashing randomly despite applying every tweak possible (running it in windowed mode, lowing the resolution, disabling autosave...). I lost about 3 hours gameplay today because of corrupted save files. I even had to brutally force my window session to restart, many times, because the game froze and it was impossible to ALT + TAB or launch task manager. Playing a game should be an enjoyable experience. It should not be having to worry whenever a crash would happen and having to manually save your progress every 2 minutes. The game was poorly optimized back then, the remastered version even less optimized, and I guess all the broken windows OS + GPU accumulated updates don't help either. Maybe the game is worth it if you can run it on a old Windows XP/7 PC (maybe via a virtual machine?) but as its current state, if you're planning to play it on a modern PC, I'm afraid I can't recommend it at all.