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: The central twist—that the majority of the episode takes place within a video game—was seen as a "bait and switch" that made character deaths and the dramatic burning of the Murder House feel insignificant.

: Many reviewers on IMDb and TV Fanatic expressed exhaustion with the setting, noting that the franchise needs to move on from its origins to allow new stories to flourish. Watch American Horror Stories S01E07 Game Over ...

“I initially lamented at the start of this season ... that an episode that's set within an existing American Horror Story season would be a better way to end the anthology series than to begin it. Well, it turns out that American Horror Stories decided to...” Bloody Disgusting · 4 years ago : The central twist—that the majority of the

“This is easily the worst episode of American Horror Stories and is amongst the worst episodes of the entire franchise. Why? ... It teases us with the destruction of Murder House [but] it does not deliver on this and instead gives us one of the worst bait...” Another Millennial Reviewer · 4 years ago that an episode that's set within an existing

Reviewers on forums and YouTube often highlighted the episode's lack of emotional closure.

Reviewers and fans found " Game Over ," the first season finale of American Horror Stories , to be a highly polarizing and often frustrating "meta" experiment. Critics and viewers generally agreed that while the concept of a self-aware episode about an American Horror Story video game was ambitious, the execution felt disjointed and rendered much of the emotional stakes meaningless through multiple layers of "fake-out" realities. Key Review Points