Apex Legends™
What Apex Legends™ is
Apex Legends is the award-winning, free-to-play Hero Shooter from Respawn Entertainment.
The sentence of its Steam description that best says what it is, picked by Jev. The developer's own words.Apex Legends is the award-winning, free-to-play Hero Shooter from Respawn Entertainment. Master an ever-growing roster of legendary characters with powerful abilities, and experience strategic squad play and innovative gameplay in the next evolution of Hero Shooter and Battle Royale.
What people say
Players say the anti-cheat is failing and known cheaters stay in matches, with aimbots and toxic chat also named inside the cheaters and toxicity complaints in Apex Legends.
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Recent reviews run 16 points below the lifetime score.
Steam's score counts every review over the game's life; this report reads the reviews in its window, so a recent update or event moves it first.
Reviewers who find the gameplay fun praise it, 18% of written reviews, and reviewers who play with friends praise something at 76%. Skip it if cheaters and toxicity bother you: 7% of written reviews raise them, and 6% raise matchmaking and balance.
Of the people who wrote a review
Watch out for
- Cheaters and toxicity7%Most often anti-cheat not working
“Getting wallhacked on and aimbotted, exploitations every other game is literal torture.”
- Matchmaking and balance6%
- Difficulty5%
- Locked out of their account1%
Share of written reviews that raise each one.
Who it suits
- Competitive play117 reviewers; most raised: matchmaking and balanceComplain65%Praise67%
- Playing with friends90 reviewers; most raised: cheaters and toxicityComplain42%Praise76%
- Collecting and completing19 reviewers; most raised: grindComplain58%Praise52%
Steam reviews over its whole life
1,076,511 reviews in every language, counted per month by Steam itself. Dots mark months far above the median. How to read a review bomb.
What Apex Legends™ reviewers say
One public report on Apex Legends™ reads 2,014 Steam reviews from the last year. The report “What people complain about and love in 2026” was last updated Oct 29, 2026. Of its 2,014 judged reviewers, 51% complain, 53% praise something, 3% make a request and 2% say they're quitting. The top complaint is cheaters and toxicity at 12% of complaints, then matchmaking and balance (11%) and bugs and crashes (8%). Top praise: gameplay is fun, at 29% of praise. Top requests: new feature or option (27%) and bring something back (25%). Two audience differences stand out. Recommended: mention difficulty 1.8x as often as everyone (19% vs 10%). Long-time user: mention developer and updates 2.6x as often as everyone (21% vs 8%).
One public report on Apex Legends™. Each title is written by the person who shared it; the line under it says how the reviews were picked.
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