 An article by GamesRadar staff of the "12 PAX East games we wish we were still playing" included "VA-11 HALL-A"; praise was directed at the game's complexity, and how "you can decide to give the customer the drink they ordered, flipping through the recipe book and dragging ingredients into the mixer in a simple minigame, or you can screw it up, and give them something totally different", as well as the "wildly different directions" the narrative takes as a result.Similarly, Twinfinite's Matthew Byrd ranked "VA-11 HALL-A" first on the "10 Anticipated Indie Games You Have to Check Out in 2016", writing that