Replaced Dev Issues Warning

Long-awaited cyberpunk cinematic platformer Replaced is out today on PC and Xbox, but comes packed with an unfortunate game-breaking bug at launch on Series S. A patch has been promised for this week to fix the issue.

Fear not, those playing on Steam or Xbox Series X, this save-destroying issue is only found on the Series S console, and occurs during Chapter 5 of the campaign. Developer Sad Cat Studios told IGN that “on Series S, the game may suffer a memory-related hang in the transition between Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 if the game has been played in a single session up to this point.”

To reduce the risk of this happening, it is recommended that players quit and restart the game during Chapter 4 to clear out the console’s RAM. If you’d rather not risk losing all of your hard-earned progress, though, the developer plans to have a patch aimed to fix the issue through certification on Wednesday, April 15, and live shortly thereafter.

It doesn’t appear to be the only thing worth waiting for this upcoming update for, either, as the action platformer’s endgame cinematics are also listed as being incomplete on Xbox Series S, despite being finished on other platforms.

I, for one, can’t wait to play through the whole of Replaced, having checked out the first three hours of the game earlier this year and coming away highly impressed. You might think you know what this game is, but I promise you don’t.

Will you be playing Replaced? If you were planning on checking it out on Series S, will you now be waiting a couple of days? Let us know in the comments!

Simon Cardy is a Senior Editor at IGN who can mainly be found skulking around open world games, indulging in Korean cinema, or despairing at the state of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Follow him on Bluesky at @cardy.bsky.social.