Code Violet Is 2026's First Certified Stinker

"Code Violet mixes the claustrophobic corridors and over-the-shoulder shooting of games like Resident Evil 4 and with the dinosaur-infested setting of Dino Crisis . Or it tries to, at least. From the sound of it, the game doesn't pull any of this off anywhere near as well as the games it's clearly trying to emulate, and its simplistic shooting never quite manages to make its dinosaur foes feel terrifying enough to overpower you."

"There's limited space before you hit a wall or a door that might have automatically closed behind you, though, so you can only backdash so much before making yourself a much easier snack to catch. The camera will collide with these barriers far sooner than [protagonist] Violet will, rendering any encounter that doesn't take place in the dead center of the room a completely unintelligible mess for as long as it takes you to get the camera refocused."

"Code Violet is a survival horror game from TeamKill Media, the team who made the apparently also awful Quantum Error from 2023. Both games are currently sitting at a 40 on review aggregate site Metacritic, and given that Code Violet only has a handful of reviews thus far, there's still time for the dinosaur-shooting Resident Evil knockoff to tumble down farther in the ranks."

Code Violet is a survival horror title from TeamKill Media that heavily borrows from Resident Evil 4 and Dino Crisis. The game currently shares a low 40 Metacritic score with the studio's previous release, Quantum Error. Early reviews criticize combat as simplistic, with shooting described as limp and guns feeling weightless. Tight environments and automatic doors limit evasion, and the camera often collides with barriers, creating unintelligible encounters outside room centers. Audio and visual feedback for combat are undercooked, reducing tension and making dinosaur encounters feel both unthreatening and confusing.

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