The album has received positive reviews from critics who cite it's introspective and personal lyrics about pain and love as well as Strangers' relationship to New York and Hip Hop.

Online retailer Bandcamp chose this for Album of the Day, where critic Dylan Green praised the "greyscale approach" to Strangers' lyrics, where he "knows how to flex when he needs to—his love of money and faith come up often, and few rappers appreciate the value of a quality bottle of wine like him—but he mostly prefers to show the work it took to get there as plainly as possible" and stated that the "unfussed production" is to the listeners' benefit.

[4] At HipHopDX, Will Schube gave A Forsaken Lover's Plea a 3.8 out of 5, calling this concept album "a love letter to New York, a chronicle of the pain and ecstasy of a less-than-sturdy romance, and an ode to the wonders of Hip Hop itself", where Strangers "balances the personal with the cosmic, tracing his own relationships and how they reflect the wider world".

[5] In Mojo, Stevie Chick scored this album 4 out of 5 stars, characterizing the music: "having looted various quiet storm nuggets and Isaac Hayes soundtracks for strings, beats and vibes, Stranger's soliloquies on love, drugs and hip-hop deliver a most compelling, modernist strain of the blues".

Writing in Glide, Ryan Dillon stated "After spending years bubbling in the underground and honing his vast array of talents, producer/rapper Chuck Strangers emerged with a statement piece in 2024...