Madden 25 has launched to mixed reviews on PC as players slam the game for alleged poor performance and bugs.
Yet another installment of EA’s Madden came out on August 16, however, it has arrived with quite a few bugs and performance issues. Be it exploits thatlet players build super teamsor the temporaryshutdown of the auction house at launch.
Players are making their issues with the game known and have lambasted EA for the state of its release. Even with the backlash, however, Madden 25 is still the franchise’s best-reviewed game on the PC at the time of writing.
Ever since its release on August 16, Madden 25 has seen a nearly equal amount of negative and positive player reviews on Steam.
“I want to love this game. It looks amazing. But it is a buggy nightmare. I cannot run a consistent 60 FPS with an overclocked RX 6600 on low graphics… This is probably going to be a great game in about three months once they actually finish it,” a playerwroteabout the game’s poor performance.
Others lamented the game’s critical issues,callingit “unplayable” due to the amount of lag they were experiencing.
Even severalpositive reviewsfeatured numerous complaints, with one putting a disclaimer that “this is still EA though” as they argue Madden 25 is just the same old with “more polish and a fresh coat of paint”.
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Despite mixed feelings by fans, Madden 25 is by far the best-performing game of the franchise on Steamreview-wise.
Sitting at a 55.40% positive reviews percentage, it’s better than its predecessors by far, whereas the last iterationsits at 45.27%, and the second-best one, Madden 23,sits at 51.35%.
Jeremy Gan was a Games Writer on Dexerto’s Australia team. He is a journalism graduate and expertly covers CS:GO, Valorant, Overwatch, League of Legends, and Dota 2, as well as trending stories in Twitch and Kick streaming.
