The Quiet Man is a 2018 action-adventure beat 'em up video game developed by Human Head Studios and published by Square Enix for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 4.
The Quiet Man was critically panned upon its release, with the complaints stemming from issues with the story, the underdeveloped gameplay sequences, and the lack of commitment displayed towards the deafness gimmick.
Most of the game consists of full motion videos and extended cutscenes, but players participate most intensely during combat scenarios.
Dane, traumatized by these events, makes up a character in his drawings named "The Quiet Man", who resembles a plague doctor.
Years later, Dane serves as an enforcer for Taye, who runs a nightclub and leads an American Mafia-styled mob.
Taye expresses concern about his girlfriend, a singer named Lala (who appears identical to Lorraine), who has been receiving mysterious letters addressed to her by a stalker.
When Dane escorts Lala to the nightclub, her performance is interrupted by an ambush from SOL 33, a rival gang led by Isaac.
Robert appears wearing the Quiet Man mask and reveals he was the stalker, and helped Lala fake her own kidnapping in order to manipulate Dane into killing Isaac and Taye to get revenge for Lorraine.
A post-credits scene has Dane being released from prison as a result of his actions, and meeting up with Robert, ready to make amends for the events that have unfolded.
"[16] IGN gave it a 5.5 out of 10, praising the live action cutscenes game for being comparable to a well-made episode of a TV show, though he highly criticized the gameplay for being a lackluster button-masher.
[33] They later placed The Quiet Man at the top of their worst games of the 2018 list, calling it "an abject, stupid failure" in both gameplay and story, and further lambasting the story by opining that the mere existence of the Answered update proved its execution to be fundamentally flawed and that, in its incomprehensibility, it inadvertently portrayed deaf people as incapable of understanding the world around them.