I do not recommend this game in the current state. I realize that this game has been out and popular for a while, but hear me out.

The game's core concept is exceptional and has a STUPID amount of potential for one of the most entertaining and thrilling asymmetrical multiplayer games in recent years. The character models, sound design, and overall plan for this game is utterly incredible and the public draw that the game has is evidence enough of that. In early games, players will find themselves having an incredible time against fellow players where skills are truly tested and there is the usual mutual respect between teams to ensure that players have fun. Even though there are occasionally players that abuse some overpowered or imbalanced perks or addons, the general experience ends up being very fulfilling.

And then. You hit higher ranks.

As soon as you hit the top 5 ranks, either through skill or sheer gametime alone, this game takes an immediate turn for the worse. You can go hours, days and possibly even weeks, getting nothing but killers that abuse OP features, push the game to its unreasonable limit of poor sportsmanship for the purpose of denying players victory, even at their own detriment. It immediately becomes a game about tormenting people and stoking their own egos in this wild power trip of a game, and it has been like this since damn near the beginning.
This wouldn't be anywhere near as much of an issue if Behavior actually knew how to manage a community, but they don't. As I understand it, low ranks are heavily killer favored while high ranks are heavily survivor favored. While the logical course of action with this issue and such a robust community would be to split it between casual low ranking players and overly competitive players and then balancing them separately, Behavior has instead chosen to try to universally balance their game by repeatedly rolling out update after update that adds more and more broken and overpowered Killer perks, addons, and abilities to try to mitigate the in game favoring of survivors in high ranks. What this does, however, is absolutely ruin mid rank gameplay, and ward off new joiners to the game. Mid rank gameplay is almost exclusively filled with toxic killers who verbally abuse survivors in post game chat for being "bad" and how "they're just so good at the game" after running the most OP addons with the most OP perks on the most OP killer.

In the end, the idea of the game is great, but because of the Devs' inability or lack of desire to properly manage their community and balance their game, it pulls you in like a drug and then you just get locked into a toxic, awful community that does nothing but verbally abuse and mock players who aren't actively in the top skill and toxicity percentile.

Do not buy this game. You'll have fun, and then you'll feel locked in because maybe you'll have one more fun game eventually, and then you'll just end up raging at this game every time you play it wondering when it stopped being fun.

I do not recommend this game in the current state. I realize that this game has been out and popular for a while, but hear me out. The game's core concept is exceptional and has a STUPID amount of potential for one of the most entertaining and thrilling asymmetrical multiplayer games in recent years. The character models, sound design, and overall plan for this game is utterly incredible and the public draw that the game has is evidence enough of that. In early games, players will find themselves having an incredible time against fellow players where skills are truly tested and there is the usual mutual respect between teams to ensure that players have fun. Even though there are occasionally players that abuse some overpowered or imbalanced perks or addons, the general experience ends up being very fulfilling. And then. You hit higher ranks. As soon as you hit the top 5 ranks, either through skill or sheer gametime alone, this game takes an immediate turn for the worse. You can go hours, days and possibly even weeks, getting nothing but killers that abuse OP features, push the game to its unreasonable limit of poor sportsmanship for the purpose of denying players victory, even at their own detriment. It immediately becomes a game about tormenting people and stoking their own egos in this wild power trip of a game, and it has been like this since damn near the beginning. This wouldn't be anywhere near as much of an issue if Behavior actually knew how to manage a community, but they don't. As I understand it, low ranks are heavily killer favored while high ranks are heavily survivor favored. While the logical course of action with this issue and such a robust community would be to split it between casual low ranking players and overly competitive players and then balancing them separately, Behavior has instead chosen to try to universally balance their game by repeatedly rolling out update after update that adds more and more broken and overpowered Killer perks, addons, and abilities to try to mitigate the in game favoring of survivors in high ranks. What this does, however, is absolutely ruin mid rank gameplay, and ward off new joiners to the game. Mid rank gameplay is almost exclusively filled with toxic killers who verbally abuse survivors in post game chat for being "bad" and how "they're just so good at the game" after running the most OP addons with the most OP perks on the most OP killer. In the end, the idea of the game is great, but because of the Devs' inability or lack of desire to properly manage their community and balance their game, it pulls you in like a drug and then you just get locked into a toxic, awful community that does nothing but verbally abuse and mock players who aren't actively in the top skill and toxicity percentile. Do not buy this game. You'll have fun, and then you'll feel locked in because maybe you'll have one more fun game eventually, and then you'll just end up raging at this game every time you play it wondering when it stopped being fun.