Mr. Prepper

Critic reviews

• Pure Nintendo

  Kirstie Summers · Jul 04, 2022

  7.0

  It is all too easy to get drawn into Mr. Prepper, to take on his anxieties and paranoia, to want to keep him safe as global threats loom. The world is interesting to explore, the natural resources make sense and the connections you build are engaging. The game takes a lot of attention, particularly when balanced against the amount of grinding built into it. But if you lean into its structure, it becomes provocative in its depiction of survival.

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• Way Too Many Games

  Oliver Shellding · Jun 14, 2022

  4.5

  Mr. Prepper has decent graphics, a fun throughline for a story, and really opens up in terms of actions the further on you go. Yet it’s the needing to do it in such a limited window, both for the auto-save countdown and the lack of mouse, that keep it from being something that I’d come back to time and again.

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• Finger Guns

  Joshua Thompson · Aug 14, 2022

  5.0

  Mr. Prepper fulfils the bunker survival simulator competently. The personal Cold War I was having with the way it controls and the treaties I wanted to break for it being so pedantic – even on the Switch – left a lot to be desired however. If this genre is of interest and you own a Switch you may be able to enjoy what it has to offer, warts and all.

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• Game Grin

  SAMIEE "GUTTERPUNK" TEE · Feb 04, 2022

  5.0

  With a storyline that is clearly angry at western values, Mr. Prepper can do nothing but try and stand out with a story that comes at the sacrifice of compelling gameplay. The attempts to challenge with a forced playstyle may turn off potential window shoppers.

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• TheXboxHub

  Alister Kennedy · Feb 03, 2022

  6.0

  A great idea sadly lessened as an experience by dodgy controls and game breaking issues held within. Perhaps a future patch to optimise things for a controller might increase playability but with Mr. Prepper we sadly didn’t escape Murricaville… we got trapped in our own bunker.

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• Finger Guns

  Miles Thompson · Jan 29, 2022

  5.0

  Mr. Prepper doesn’t turn out to be the nuclear catastrophe it initially convinces you it will be. It survives the radioactive onslaught by the skin of it’s dank, burrowed out teeth. There’s something strange in this that can be recommended, but only to those who have a penchant for the suvivalist, resource-management genre. For everyone else, the threat of impending destruction on the surface is likely more preferable to the solitude and depression of the bunker.

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