{"id":583847,"date":"2025-11-21T03:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T03:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/583847\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T03:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T03:10:15","slug":"total-chaos-gets-its-first-official-review-following-surprise-xbox-game-pass-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/583847\/","title":{"rendered":"Total Chaos Gets Its First Official Review Following Surprise Xbox Game Pass Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>You may have heard by now that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2025\/11\/xbox-shadow-drops-two-game-pass-titles-at-the-november-2025-partner-preview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two games have been shadow dropped onto Xbox Game Pass<\/a> following today&#8217;s Xbox Partner Preview showcase, and one of those is the survival horror title <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/total_chaos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Total Chaos<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The surprise nature of this reveal means there are barely any impressions for the game thus far, but we have come across the first official review for Total Chaos that&#8217;s been submitted by <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/total-chaos-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ScreenRant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Their review mentions that they&#8217;ve played 20 hours of Total Chaos thanks to a PC code that was provided by the PR team, and overall they&#8217;re pretty impressed with the game, giving it a 8\/10 score altogether.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a bit of the conclusion:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;More than anything, I vibed with Total Chaos&#8217; creative dungeon-crawling routine, its secrets and scares, its weird developments and frantic encounters, and I even enjoyed tangling with my overweight inventory. There are settings to untick everything from hunger to weapon durability, but I played through the game on standard and found its systems generous and satisfyingly manageable. In the end, Total Chaos purely nails this sad survival horror sweet spot that I didn\u2019t even realize I was jonesing for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It sounds like it&#8217;s worth playing, then! The pros mention how it&#8217;s a &#8220;nightmarish survival horror FPS that hits that sweet spot between oppressive and accessible&#8221; complete with great weapon variety, sound and a lengthy adventure, while the cons talk about getting lost in its larger chapters, its narrative leveraging some &#8220;oft-used horror game tropes&#8221; and the lack of a New Game+ mode at release.<\/p>\n<p>Many more reviews will be following in the hours to come, but it&#8217;s nice to get an idea of how it&#8217;s shaping up in the meantime &#8211; and now we&#8217;re even more intrigued to go and check it out on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2025\/11\/xbox-announces-9-titles-coming-to-game-pass-at-novembers-partner-preview-showcase\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Xbox Game Pass<\/a> Ultimate \/ PC Game Pass!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Fort Oasis is no paradise\u2014it&#8217;s a decaying nightmare where reality crumbles. The creator of Turbo Overkill unleashes survival-horror stacked with mysteries and monstrosities. Scavenge to craft weapons, while a voice on your walkie-talkie guides you into the island&#8217;s depths.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Are you playing Total Chaos on Xbox Game Pass? What do you think of it? Tell us below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/screenrant.com\/total-chaos-review\/\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/total-chaos-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">screenrant.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Related Games<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1743477849_879_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Fraser Gilbert\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fraser is the News Editor at Pure Xbox, where he spends his time reporting on the biggest stories in the world of Xbox and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You may have heard by now that two games have been shadow dropped onto Xbox Game Pass following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[118175,53,184261,16,15,289,515],"class_list":{"0":"post-583847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-review-roundup","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-total-chaos","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-xbox","14":"tag-xbox-game-pass"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115585497993614866","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}