Ready or Not
The top grade in the tactical shooter Ready or Not goes to the squad that kills no one. You lead a police SWAT team, and an S rating requires every suspect and civilian to leave alive and conscious.
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For that you carry tasers, pepper spray and beanbag shotguns, and an arrest scores more than a kill. Suspects play dead, fake a surrender and then draw a weapon, or hide behind bystanders.
In the main single-player mode your officers have a mental state. It wears down after every mission, faster when suspects are killed or a teammate dies. Worn-out officers go to therapy, and those it fails to help resign.
The game is often called a spiritual successor to the SWAT series. In 2025, to reach consoles, the studio toned down dismemberment and nudity, PC included, and players answered with a wave of negative Steam reviews.
You can play with AI teammates or online with up to five players. The themes are grim, from human trafficking to mass shootings, and one reviewer back in early access found the realism too shallow. Players leave 79% positive out of 268,487 reviews; critics give it 79 on Metacritic. By our Recommended Score it is #498 of 4,736 games.
Liked it? Try Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, where you get one life per round, and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2, with a Las Vegas campaign for two.
Major updates
RoN v1.5 Update: Mission Editor Changelog (v1.5.2) · Sep 2026All 5
System requirements
Minimum GTX 960 2 GB · 8 GB RAM · 60 GB✓Steam Deck VerifiedMin & recommended
| Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Windows 10, Windows 11 | 64-bit Windows 10, 64-bit Windows 11 |
| Processor | Intel Core i5-4430 / AMD FX-6300 | AMD Ryzen 5-1600 / Intel Core i5-7600K |
| Memory | 8 GB | 8 GB |
| Graphics | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2GB / AMD Radeon R7 370 2GB | Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB or better |
| DirectX | 11 | 11 |
| Storage | 60 GB | 60 GB |
From the game’s Steam store page.
