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Back 4 Blood
Back 4 Blood pairs a customizable co-op campaign with PvP where players can also fight as the Ridden. For a group ready to tackle missions together, ≈ $0.20 at 
Kinguin is a timely opportunity; solo play with a team is also supported. The Steam PC version lists full controller support. Player ratings are 69% across 55,291 reviews. At $5.99 from Kinguin, Back 4 Blood is at this site's recorded low, making the co-op campaign a timely pick for a group ready to play.
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Past 36 months · Updated dailyHistorical Low~ $0.412026-07Current Low Across Stores~ $52.68Kinguinvs. Historical Low+12749%
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01About Back 4 Blood
Back 4 Blood is a first-person shooter where you fight the Ridden as a Cleaner. Its co-op campaign sends a team through increasingly challenging missions, with eight customizable characters, weapons, items and decks of cards to shape each run. The Game Director adapts encounters, while PvP lets players take the Ridden side. Steam player rating: 69% positive from 55,291 reviews. Released October 12, 2021. Supported interface languages: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese-Brazil, Russian, Spanish-Latin America, and Turkish.
Credits
Developer
Turtle Rock Studios
Publisher
Warner Bros. Games
Voice
Danielle Judovits
Lowest recorded in 36 months
$0.412026-07-30 · KinguinBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.Language support
| Language | Interface | Subtitles | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simplified Chinese | Yes | Yes | — |
| Traditional Chinese | Yes | Yes | — |
| English | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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| Language | Interface | Subtitles | Audio |
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| French | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Italian | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| German | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Spanish | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Arabic | Yes | Yes | — |
| Japanese | Yes | Yes | — |
| Korean | Yes | Yes | — |
| Polish | Yes | Yes | — |
| Portuguese-Brazil | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Russian | Yes | Yes | — |
| Spanish-Latin America | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Turkish | Yes | Yes | — |
Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-20
02Before you buy
Play modes
The Steam PC version lists single-player, online co-op and multiplayer. Its campaign supports up to four players and can also be played solo with a team.
Language and controls
Full controller support is listed. English interface, audio and subtitles are supported.
03Frequently asked questions
What is Back 4 Blood about?
You play as a Cleaner fighting the Ridden, former human hosts of a deadly parasite, in a cooperative first-person shooter.
Can I play the campaign solo?
Yes. You can lead a team solo or play online with up to three friends.
What is the multiplayer mode?
In PvP, players fight as Cleaners or Ridden, with distinct weapons and abilities for both sides.
How does the game vary between runs?
Build custom decks and try different builds; the Game Director adjusts encounters to player actions.
Popular Steam reviews
Native-language selection · 10 reviewsSelected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.
RecommendedSteam player
Back 4 Blood Wait 4 SaleShow moreShow less
27.1 hours at review2,489 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
I've never played a more fake game than Back 4 Blood. never buy a game before crowbcat reviews itShow moreShow less
1.1 hours at review8,626 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
It's really fun, but honestly it should be Wait 4 SaleShow moreShow less
8.6 hours at review2,427 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Developer was recently purchased by Tencent and they also record and store your voice chat and text chat.Show moreShow less
61.7 hours at review5,483 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdRLNUGmFC8Show moreShow less
93.6 hours at review2,071 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
UPDATE (January 18, 2022) A bit more than a month has passed since the December update came out and the "ghost bullets" hotfix went live 5 days ago and I've gotten a few requests from people to update my review, so I've finally decided to do it. It is January 18, 2022 and here's my go at B4B number two, I am going to look back at my previously mentioned points and give an update if anything has changed, become worse or better. Unfortunately, I had to delete some of my older text to not go past the maximum amount of characters allowed in a review. -"Ghost bullets" - This particular game breaking bug/glitch, whatever you want to call it, was "introduced" in the December update and it caused your bullets to not deal any damage to ridden at times. Apparently, the cause of it was having a high/fluctuating ping. Seemingly, this issue as of January 13, 2022 has been fixed. Took the devs a month to fix it. Is that a good indicator? -Difficulty scaling. Difficulty has become a tad more balanced and less annoying now, although I can't comment on every difficulty level as I only play on Nightmare. You can read the full patch notes here: https://steamcommunity.com/games/924970/announcements/detail/3137318082755038235 Anyway, regarding Nightmare - you can finally play the game without speed decks and actually get somewhere. Sure, there are still some parts where decks built around speed always perform better (no Breaker maps, get from point A to point B + infinite horde scenarios), but, overall, Nightmare is a much more pleasant experience now. -The meta. No changes. Speed decks are still as powerful as they were before. Yes, speed decks got nerfed a little bit in the December patch, but the changes are practically unnoticeable. And this is coming from someone that has "spedran" all the acts multiple times. You can barely feel any difference since Nightmare mode itself has been balanced out (specials, normal ridden etc.). Of course you need to know proper routing and kiting spots to be a top quality runner, otherwise you will fail miserably, but this all can be practised. -RNG, Special ridden & Spawn rate - Improvements can be noticed here. Sure, this game is still very heavily RNG based, e.g. getting the wrong Corruption cards, specials spawning in your face, but it doesn't feel as unfair as it felt before since the total amount of special ridden that can spawn at once has been reduced and normal ridden damage has been nerfed. What is still an issue - spawn locations. Specials can still spawn in ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ locations, e.g. like in a bathroom behind you, when you are IN THE SAME ROOM, just 5m away from the toilet. -Tallboy and Crusher grab range. These guys can still hit/grab you when you are 10 miles away. At certain moments, they don't even seem to care about solid objects, a grab is a grab! This also applies to the Hag. -Lagging ridden/bad servers. Nothing has changed. Ridden still teleport and servers still lag. If you are the host of the lobby and play with people from around the world, there's a chance that the server you find won't be of appropriate location. -Friend invite and friend list system. Still no alphabetical order, oh well. -Stats do not properly display. Various stats still cannot be seen without using a certain website. -Ultimate edition. Still not worth it. -Glitches and exploits. Card duplication, infinite nades/copper exploits have now been fixed. There's still a card exploit that lets you get double the amount of cards on round one. Plus, other map related exploits still exist, but those are not too critical. -Still no "kick player" button for the lobby host. -Checkpoint/continue system. Not as frustrating now since "burn cards" have been added to the game which allow you to get extra continues. -Progression system - meh. If you are a completionist you will have a bit of stuff to do but other than that, nothing too interesting to strive for, except the Apocalypse/ZWAT skins. -Still not possible to play the game in true fullscreen mode without editing the game files. -Solo mode. It is now possible to go through all the acts solo with bots and get achievements. Final verdict: game is still hardly any good, but at least worth a try at this point. Try it out for $1 with Xbox Game Pass and see if you like it. Definitely not worth the Steam price tag. Thoughts for the future: it seems like the game is slowly starting to die out, player count is decreasing everyday, judging from the statistical evidence. There is no way that the game is going to come back from the big mess that it originally was so try it out while you can. You might actually like it, or not.Show moreShow less
155.2 hours at review4,770 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
Warning #1: Do not expect this to be Left 4 Dead 3. If you expect this, you are setting yourself up for some disappointment. It also restricts progression if you play it solo. Warning #2: You are paying $60 for the current version of the game. Turtle Rock has promised that microtransactions will be "cosmetic only" -- they neglect to clearly clarify that they don't consider DLC campaigns to be microtransactions. You will have to pay more for new campaigns in the future, unless you play with someone who has bought them -- in which case, you'll be forced to download and store GB's of data you cannot even use when playing solo. Warning #3: All your in-game voice chat is recorded for moderation. If this bothers you, please refrain from using it entirely. The game will provide an early warning. Warning #4: It is heresy for any self-proclaimed "Left 4 Dead spiritual successor" to be as anti-modding as Back 4 Blood is. I respect that Turtle Rock Studios just wanted to create a great game -- and they've succeeded -- but not without Phil Robb and Chris Ashton betraying their roots. Left 4 Dead and Valve cultivated a vibrant community of modders many of whom now work in the industry -- whereas Back 4 Blood stifles cultivation. Warner Bros' aggressive anti-modding terms are a regression, not a progression. That being said, on its own it's a solid game with countless great qualities: + Beautiful art direction, from environments to characters, and lighting + The user interface design is alarmingly smooth and clean, extensive color blind options + Map clipping seems unobtrusive and parkour, you will have fun running around + The guns are great, and being able to use them all in Fort Hope right away is also cool + Fort Hope's boxing area and jukebox are great details, but would benefit from more places of utility in future updates There's clearly a lot of well-meaning love that went into this game, even if questionable decisions were made. It's now just a matter of the community keeping future decisions in check -- since we won't be able to do any of that ourselves with mods. For mods, look up Chet Faliszek's "Anacrusis" Discord server -- those are the other ex-L4D devs who actually care.Show moreShow less
4.3 hours at review1,675 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
FOR SOLO/LONE WOLF PLAYERS Solo mode disables progression you can only earn things if you have atleast 1 other player i dont think this needs to be said why this was a bad game design choiceShow moreShow less
0.5 hours at review2,919 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
Its fun, for now, Im only like a few hours in.. but it takes forever to load the game - Gunplay is fun, smooth. - I refunded it just because on my system, it takes so long to load into the game but once its loaded, it is fun, and quick to find matches, but seems kinda repetitive. - You do get customisation for your weapon and character and each character has their own pssive Only worth getting when its on sale though, IMO. Anyway.. Nobody will read my review so I will eat 1 Tablespoon of Tabasco For Every Like this gets.. Video will be posted on Youtube! UPDATE: Im being sent to the Moon for an anu* replacement now, I'll get back with the videos in 2035 ok guys? Please wait! UPDATE 2: SKIBIDI TOILET!! Skibidi fortnite!Show moreShow less
2.2 hours at review1,565 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
If I could, I'd give this a middle thumb but due to the lack of variety and actual fun I will give this game a thumbs down. I feel like the game could be way better in nearly every aspect, but they decided to roll with whatever they had because they knew this would sell cause it’s the “spiritual successor” to the iconic Left 4 Dead franchise. Promoting the game like it was pretty much L4D3 was one of the biggest mistakes they possibly could have done. You go into the game with the expectation that this would be like left 4 dead and on the surface, it is. 4 player co-op shooter with zombies. They didn’t try to improve upon the now generic and boring formula, they decided to make another forgettable boring game. Oh, and before I forget to mention; They are recording the ingame chat. Just letting you know incase you didn't know. The entire community gave them plenty of critique and as far as I am aware they listened to no one. They didn’t balance the infected, didn’t change the maps, didn’t add weapons or fix hitboxes. They pretty much changed NOTHING from the alpha or the beta as far as I remember except the horrendous performance. They didn’t even change the goofy stun animation when a reeker dies next to you. You fly away like a cartoon character and they haven’t changed it since the alpha. The performance in the beta and the full game is way better than in the alpha, but there are still quite a few hiccups with the performance, especially during Act 2’s and 4’s finale. The game is also a buggy mess. I cannot stress enough how many times we had to kill ourselves on purpose cause the final boss was glitched and wouldn’t let us hurt him. The hitboxes are also incredibly broken especially when it comes to the bruisers. It also really bothers me that you cannot play alone with your friends. I know you can, but the game is buggy and it just doesn't work so we always get randoms that got their mic volume at 500% and destroy my ears. The game has been out for 4 days by the time I publish this review and they still have not fixed it. The gunplay is fun, but kinda feels hollow sometimes. You sadly cannot remove attachments on your guns which is also really annoying especially when you pick up a 4x zoom scope for an AK by accident lmao. Stamina is also a pain in the ass in the game. You can level it up if you pick cards that give you +10% stamina but stamina is still a problem. Speaking of the cards system. It’s unique and sort of cool. At first I was against it, but now that I’ve seen it with my own eyes I kinda like it. It adds to the replay value but most of the time you get some annoying cards that add a fog that is so thick you can’t see a metre in front of you. The map design for the most part is bad. They look nice, but they are really bad when it comes to gameplay not to mention do they constantly reuse maps and the only thing they change Is the time of day. At least Hard Rain in L4D2 added some heavy rain to the backtracking but Back 4 Blood doesn’t. The atmosphere in general in the game is just average. Left 4 Dead somehow managed to be creepy and incredibly fun all at once when you played it, but Back 4 Blood instantly gives off a cheap and unfinished vibes. You open the game and the second you load into Fort Hope you can just feel how cheap the game is. The characters are all right I guess. Nothing really outstanding outside of maybe Holly, Doc and Jim. They definitely do not have the charm and chemistry that Bill, Zoey, Francis or Louis had. The melee still feels weightless and it seems like they only have one animation for it. Left 4 Dead 2, a game that released in 2009 unironically got better melee animations than Back 4 Blood that released in 2021. That ♥♥♥♥ blows my mind. It is not fun to use melee weapons at all so I avoid them at all costs. The Infected are incredibly underwhelming when it comes to design and variety. Overall there are only 3 different categories of infected. Stingers, Tallboys and Reekers. Tallboys are pretty much a mix of Chargers and Tanks, Stingers a mix of Hunter and Spitter, Reekers pretty much only (suicide) boomers. In each of those categories you got 3 new infected and they look pretty much alike so you can never see the difference in-game. Some infected are still ridiculously overpowered or underpowered. There is no actual balance. Stalkers are basically hunters which you cannot prevent from pouncing you except when you somehow dodge them, but that is not proper counterplay because they are faster than you can react. Brousers are incredibly overpowered and frustrating to play as / against. They can rush ahead with their power several metres catching up to the survivor so they make barely any distance and then hit 5m infront of them LITERALLY taking 1/4 of the cleaners health. They can take down an entire team if you're not careful and overrun by ridden or stuck in a small space. They take more than 2-3 mags to take down which is just bad and unfun. But on the other hand, cleaners can throw stun grenades which stun you for 10 seconds and then just throw molotovs and kill you without you having a chance to react. Hockers are alright but annoying to go against aswell ESPECIALLY when they hide on a roof or behind a wall cause there is realistically nothing you can really do against them. The entire tallboy category is just a huge problem. They do too much damage and got too much health. Then there is the Ogre, which is pretty much a huge tank but he is overall ironically the weakest enemy in the game. If you hide in a house and shoot from inside there is nothing he can do about it. However, if you are close to him he is quite strong duh. He sounds quite cool right? Well I thought so too until I realised that every time he appears it is always scripted. He can’t appear randomly and that just ruins it at times because you can just run past him if you know what is about to happen. The swarm mode is also incredibly stupid. Maps are horribly designed and 9/10 times open where all the infected struggle to do anything and cleaners can just camp in the corner of the map where they can oversee 50% of the map and shoot anything that moves. But on the other hand, sometimes infected can take the high ground by camping on a roof, behind a wall or some other spot where you physically cannot reach them or react fast enough to counter their attack. I've also noticed that there is no system like in L4D2. Back in L4D2 you couldn't get 4 hunters or 1 jockey, 1 hunter, 1 charger and 1 smoker that could kill you all in one move because that is quite unfair but here? If there's a horde you get run over by dozens of zombies countless of hockers, stingers, walmart boomers and brousers all at once which is just frustrating. Also allow us more customization. I wanna change my crosshair to my liking and not either some dot or some ugly cross. They are also way too big which looks really off. The servers are also quite laggy currently which is a bummer. I bought the 100€ version and hope they improve upon everything but due to them not really changing anything from the Beta or Alpha I won't expect too much. You also HARDLY get anything from the 90 or 100€ version lmao. Like all you get is a few sprays, 3 ugly and 1 good skin and a useless title and emblem alongside one of the worst pre-order weapon skins I have ever seen in my entire life. The only good thing about these versions is that you get to play 4 days earlier but that is still a ridiculous price for that pitiful content. Overall I’d give this game a 6/10. It is fun but NOT a worthy successor to the Left 4 Dead franchise and it is NOT worth 70-100€. Edit: 40 hours later and everything still remains true.Show moreShow less
13.6 hours at review2,853 people found this helpful
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