Saints Row IV is the most delirious saga entry with the President as superhero against aliens. Superpowers, Matrix-like computer simulation, irresistible meta humour. A sandbox of pure madness.
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Category
Open-World4 players18+
Co-op
Description
Volition open-world action of Saints Row with caricatural gangsta and offbeat humor. Published by THQ or Deep Silver, released in Europe in August 2013. Président saints contre invasion alien, GTA-like gameplay with outrageous humor, extensive character customization, online co-op mode, and unlimited urban chaos. IV variant of Saints Row. European version.
Saints Row IV review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
4/5
Music
★★★★★
"Excellent"
4/5
Story
★★★★★
"Captivating"
Gameplay
"Excellent"
Fun
"From the very first seconds"
This time, you play the superpowered president of the United States, in a virtual simulation where you run faster than a car and where the absurd has no limit left. The blend of superhero and unbridled parody delivers a constant, hilarious release. Snappy, generous and completely insane, an open-world that pushes the madness to its peak, ideal for laughing in co-op.
Addictiveness
"Captivating"
Difficulty
"Balanced"
Lifespan
"Massive"
Becoming president of the Saints against an alien invasion tips the series into total excess: super-powers, a hijacked simulation and deranged weapons multiply the ways to play. The story comes with a city to liberate cluster by cluster, oversized challenges and online co-op. That embraced madness, rather than a long narrative, explains the entry's gleeful replayability.
Saints Row IV, the entry that pushes the series' excess into science fiction and superpowers, abandoning all realism for an unabashed romp. Still common, its collector interest is modest; the European and Asian run remains harder to find. An accessible piece for an action set of the generation, whose desirability rests on its eccentricity rather than established value, the Game of the Century edition being preferred.
Better with friends
A deranged urban sandbox whose two-player co-op multiplies the sheer nonsense, between absurd missions and chaotic joyrides across town. Mutual aid takes on goofy humor: improvising stunts, daring each other into silly challenges and causing chaos together generate guaranteed fits of laughter. The online leans on uncertain servers, but the free-roaming duo stays a generator of memorable, unhinged anecdotes.
A questionable morality
Running a gang that becomes a commercial brand and then frankly presidential lets you get away with just about anything: heists, deranged urban destruction and weapons each more absurd than the last. The tongue-in-cheek tone is so heavy that you quickly forget the lengthening rap sheet, savoring this grand criminal playground as an avowed parody rather than a thug's handbook.
Is Saints Row IV still worth playing in 2026?
Saints Row IV pushes the saga's excess to the most gleeful absurdity, making the Saints' boss the President of the United States, endowed with superpowers, fighting an alien invasion in a Matrix-like computer simulation. The leap, the superhuman running and the wild abilities turn city exploration into an exhilarating playground, sweeping aside all logic in favour of pure fun. The meta humour, omnipresent and irresistible, fully embraces its madness. The structure recycles the previous entry's setting. But for anyone seeking a totally unbridled and hilarious sandbox, this delirium remains a singular success.
