No skip input has been found. A benchmarker who went through the opening twice tried every button on both a controller and a keyboard on camera and got nothing. What that does and does not establish.
No button has been found that skips one. The only person to test it systematically pressed every input on a controller and a keyboard during the opening cutscenes on PC and found no skip — which is strong evidence about those cutscenes and no evidence at all about the rest of the game.
Where this is being asked · Not in a thread anyone has opened — in a benchmark video, where the tester stopped measuring frame rates to hunt for the button and titled a chapter "You can't skip cutscenes...".
A grade describes sourcing, not truth. Inferred means we concluded it and the reasoning is shown; unverified means someone asserted it and nobody stands behind it.
UnverifiedNo input skips the opening cutscenes on PC.
Daniel Owen, 4 August 2026, testing every controller button and several keyboard keys on camera across two passes. One tester, and he allows he may have missed something.
InferredNothing is known about later cutscenes, consoles or new game plus.
Our reading of the scope of that test. All of it is in the opening hour on PC, so the finding cannot be extended without someone extending the test.
UnverifiedThe cutscenes are long enough for this to matter on a replay.
Skill Up, 6 August 2026, on a completed playthrough — a verdict about pacing rather than a measurement, and published here as one.
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What was actually tried
This is worth stating precisely, because "you cannot skip cutscenes" is the kind of claim that gets repeated from one article to the next without anyone saying what they pressed. Daniel Owen ran the game's opening twice on two different PCs while benchmarking it, and on the second pass went looking for a skip. He also, later in the same video, abandoned a test pass rather than sit through the opening again — a tester breaking his own methodology over it is worth as much as the button test.
Every button on the controller, including the face buttons, tried during a cutscene.
Escape and space bar on the keyboard, plus what he describes as "all sorts of buttons".
Start, which opens a menu rather than skipping — the machine captions garble which menu, so we do not name it here.
A second pass through the same cutscenes later in the video, reaching the same result.
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Why this is not filed as settled
One tester, one platform, one part of the game. He was benchmarking rather than auditing the input map, he says himself that he may be missing it, and every cutscene he tested is in the opening hour. A skip that unlocks after a first completion, or on new game plus, or on a console build, would be entirely consistent with what he found. Nothing here rules any of that out — it only establishes that a competent player pressing everything during the opening on PC could not skip one.
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What it means for a replay
Take it seriously if you were planning to run the game more than once. Unskippable cutscenes cost little on a first playthrough and a great deal on a second, and this game has drawn separate criticism for the length and pacing of its story scenes — Skill Up's review describes the fade-to-black before them as padding. If a second run matters to you, that is the risk to weigh, and no source currently tells you whether new game plus changes it.
Expiry condition
What would have to change for this answer to be wrong
An answer about a live-service game without this is an answer with a hidden expiry date.
Anyone shows a cutscene being skipped — later in the game, on a console build, or on a second playthrough. A single clip settles this in the other direction, which is why the answer is stated as "no button has been found" rather than as "there is no button".
Citations
Every source, with its date
A complaint posted before 30 July 2026 describes the playtest, not the game you bought, and a source whose publication date nobody captured cannot show that it postdates launch either. Both are flagged rather than quietly mixed in.
That every controller button and several keyboard keys were pressed during the opening cutscenes on PC without skipping one, across two separate passes on two different systems, and that the creator typed the chapter marker "You can't skip cutscenes..." himself. It does not establish anything about later cutscenes, console builds or new game plus, none of which were tested.
That a reviewer who finished the game found the cutscene pacing padded and resented the fade-to-black preceding them. It does not establish whether they can be skipped — he never says he tried.
Related questions
None has been found. The only systematic test on record covered the opening cutscenes on PC, on both a controller and a keyboard, and turned up nothing.
