- Rise of the Ronin launched on PC today.
- Early players quickly found that the performance is untenable.
- This is the latest in a long line of bad PC ports.
The latest game from Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja – Rise of the Ronin – finally launched on PC today after first releasing on PlayStation 5 a year ago. Unfortunately for those who waited all that time, this is yet another bad port for the PC.
Despite the launch being just a few hours old at this point, reviews from the public and other publications have already painted a grim picture about what PC players can expect in the game.
Almost all of the reviews from critics mention PC technical issues as a main detractor from the experience and a reason not to pick it up right now. Even outlets with high-end machines struggled to extract any decent performance out of the title.
Looking at Steam for user reviews and, at the time of writing, just 49 percent of the reviews are positive. That means the majority of users who left reviews, at 51 percent, are negative right now.
Reading some of these reviews and the reason for their thumbs down ratings all seem to be around performance. From the reader reviews we see a greater mix of hardware but problems like low framerates, stutter, poor visuals and more persist no matter what.
Right now there has been no official word about these problems or any imminent fixes. Team Ninja is busy tweeting about a Screenshot Competition and Koei Tecmo hasn’t said anything either.
This has become the norm in modern gaming as we just saw the release of Monster Hunter Wilds with its own laundry list of problems. As we mentioned in our article on that game, this has become just about accepted by many with the only hope that the developer fixes things some time in the future.
It’s a poor state of affairs and, between Rise of the Ronin and Monster Hunter Wilds, this is doing nothing for the reputation of Japanese studios treating PC as a lesser platform for their games.
When we reviewed Rise of the Ronin on PlayStation 5 at its launch in March 2024, performance wasn’t an issue at all. Check out that review below.
