The Last of Us Part 1 was in rough shape when it finally made its long-awaited debut on PC earlier this year. It gave us the blessings of Eyebrows Joel, which was pretty great, but not quite great enough to make up for the fact that performance was brutal and crashes were far too common: Nearly 9,700 user reviews on Steam currently have it sitting at a "mostly negative" overall rating, a very unexpected response to such a highly anticipated game.
A hotfix went live on March 29, the day after The Last of Us Part 1 appeared on Steam, which focused primarily on "stability and performance improvements and other smaller improvements." and Sony and Naughty Dog also said they were "closely watching player reports and actively working on a patch with more bugfixes, to be released soon."
