Dragon's Dogma 2 was released on March 22, 2024, to an predominantly negative response on Steam, as players are review bombing the game in protest of the game's major problems. Though the excitement for Dragon's Dogma 2 was high when it launched its character creator, first impressions of the full game spoke of performance issues across all three platforms, with frame rates dramatically dropping in cities due to the large number of NPCs putting a strain on CPUs.