Warning: Microtransaction infested mobile app!

Auto Brawl Chess is one of thousands of nasty mobile apps infesting the "free" section of Steam, but it's not really free.

There's only a superficial "game" here.

You might be wondering why this is called "Chess" because it looks nothing like Chess, and you're correct. This has nothing to do with Chess, but it's a term mobile devs like to use to describe their cash grab scams because it makes them seem like they're smart. Really, this is a clicker/idler where you spend real world money to buy stuff which then fights stuff other people paid real money to build up, and whoever gave the most money to the mobile devs through the cancerous real world money cash shop wins. See why this kind of thing is seen as a scam? Because it is.

So really, the mobile app "game" is just a veneer, a thin skin wrapped around a nasty, predatory mobile app cash shop.

Thus, the true purpose of this mobile app is to get you to hand your credit card details to the greedy mobile devs so you can buy stuff in the nasty cash shop... it shouldn't be considered a real game because it's a mobile app cash harvester, and has no place in your game library.

Putting that toxic mobile app monetisation aside... this is a mobile app. I didn't spend thousands on a gaming PC so I could pretend it's an iPhone, and I don't think you did either... this kind of mobile app has no place in your Steam library.

Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at less than 100 concurrent players, they couldn't even break three figures, and now there's basically nobody playing it. Even though it's free. This is a dismal public reception, but it's easy to see why gamers rejected it.

Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it?

Nope. This isn't worth downloading. While this didn't cost me any money up front, I still feel ripped off.