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4.1 hrs on record

Two notable criteria for what makes an asset flip instead of legitimate use of stock assets are whether those assets comprise the majority of the game, and whether the "developer" properly credited the people who created most of the assets in the game. This game fails both of those tests. The "developers" here didn't credit any of the artists and real, actual game developers who created the assets here, so this is plagiarism, as well as cash grab shovelware. It's not hard to write a credits page... unless you don't want people to know this isn't actually your work and you're trying to get paid for putting your name on other people's assets.

In this case, the asset flipper took a bunch of Unity assets and tried to make some kind of first person horror adventure game with them (there's literally thousands of these infesting Steam, most are Russian shovelware), and just like all the rest of them at best this is an amateur dumpster fire that looks way better than it actually is because of all the stolen assets. It has no value or merit as a real game.

This kind of asset flipping isn't harmless. It makes it harder for gamers to find genuinely made games from ethical developers. It makes it harder for genuine indie developers, who put hard work into trying to make real games, to find an audience for their products. It gives indie developers a bad name.

Taking this shovelware seriously as if it was a genuine attempt to make a game, it doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.

Despite not being in Steam Early Access (where this arguably belongs), the game is missing features and is apparently incomplete. Due to the lack of meaningful progress from the developer, it's unlikely the game will be completed at all, yet the developers reprehensively have their hand out for money for an incomplete game. It's a bug ridden, unpolished mess. Wow, turns out when "developers" don't have the skill or talent to create their game assets and resort to stealing the work of others, turns out they also aren't usually capable of the rest of the job of a game developer. This is a good reason for gamers to avoid this.

There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision.

The mismatched game assets are fairly mediocre/low quality, it's a wonder why they couldn't be bothered "borrowing" higher quality assets for this asset flip. This is a lot like going on a shoplifting spree but only stealing the cut price store brand goods. Regardless, the poor quality assets alone should be enough to deter gamers from bothering with this.

The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers, left handed gamers or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts.

These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.

Don't take it from me, either, the poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it, and that's a verifiable fact. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 4 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.

So, should you buy this asset flip? Is this better than any of the 100,000+ genuinely made games on Steam? Of course not!

The Forgotten has the cash grab price of around $5 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam.

For comparison, the $5 asking price for this asset flip could get you games like "Dishonored", "Planet Coaster" or "Shadow Warrior". Quality, professionally made games from ethical developers like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this.

Posted 21 September.

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2.5 hrs on record

Warning: Asset Flip![en.wikipedia.org]

Matt's Project Zombies: Open World is an asset flip, what Valve calls a "fake game". The "developer", Matt Sowards/Ravesta Games, took the Easy Survival RPG[www.unrealengine.com] game assets from the real developers, Easy Systems, changed the name, and dumped the result onto Steam. They're attempting to scam people into buying this, so they can get your money for someone else's work.

It gets worse... "Easy Survival RPG" has also been shamelessly dumped on Steam by other asset flippers apart from Matt Sowards/Ravesta Games:

"Asset Flip", asset flipped by n00dbeaver Studios
"Zombie Hotel", asset flipped by NifftyGameworks
"SurvivalIsLand", asset flipped by Dust Studio
"Survival Isolation", asset flipped by Candy games studios/Tero Lunkka
"Survive The Island", asset flipped by XO GAMES
"BEACHED", asset flipped by Gradient Studios

Take a look for yourself... these are all exactly the same game!

So, the "developer" of this asset flip mucked around with it for a year or so then abandoned it when nobody was interested in giving him money for someone else's game (shocker). So it's abandoned, he won't finish whatever work he embarked on to fill out the survival template with stolen Unreal assets, or even bother to make much of an effort to disguise the fact this is a nasty asset flip. In fact it's worse than most of the other asset flips of the basic Unreal survival engine that are listed above, so I mean, if you want to get scammed into buying an asset flip, buy one of those other asset flips instead. See how bad the current state of "indie" game development is?

The products that result from asset flips aren't "real" games. They lack depth and content, because they're just simplistic copies of demos or tutorials. In this case, "Easy Survival RPG" is just an Unreal Marketplace complete game pack to teach people how to construct open world survival games, and doesn't have any merit as a proper, fully fledged PC game, so this copy+paste of it can't be recommended.

Asset flips don't involve any professional game development. Sure, sometimes they may change a few cosmetic things, swap out different assets etc, but at heart it's functionally identical to the asset they're ripping off.

Asset flips like this are harmful to the gaming industry and to Steam because they reduce the visibility that sincerely made indie games should have, and make it harder for gamers to find real games from genuine developers.

Don't reward this morally bankrupt, unethical behaviour from Matt Sowards/Ravesta Games.

Posted 21 September. Last edited 21 September.

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10.2 hrs on record

Gelly Break Deluxe is a handheld (Nintendo Switch)/console game that's also been put on Steam as a bit of an afterthought, as it's very much designed for the handheld/console gaming audience. It's a badly made co-op centric platformer where each of the two characters has a colour and can interact with special platforms of the same colour. The trick to finish each level is to have each player traverse the right obstacles.

There's a co-op focus to the game, so you need to co-ordinate with your friends to play this... I guess that's easier for the developer than making a compelling single player experience. Creating content is hard! Why bother?

Like I always say, if the only thing that makes a game fun is your friends, that just proves it's fun to spend time with your friends, and doesn't say much for the game at all.

At least there is a single player mode where you control both characters and can switch between them, this does a good job of fixing the co-op limitation to the game, but the concept of the game isn't the problem here, it's the godawfully bad Nintendo Switch port that this trashware has.

From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.

There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision.

The game features low-polygon "retro" assets with cartoony, mobile app style shader effects, making this look like a barely functional mobile app from 15 years ago. This visual style is a method that lazy devs often use when they have a lack of interest/capability to create highly detailed, high poly models and instead use shader effects to disguise that shortcoming under the name of "art", or "We made it look bad on purpose", which really isn't something gamers should have to put up with. It's unclear why the developers weren't willing to arrange high quality, high polygon count contemporary assets and high resolution textures for the game. It's far below the state of the art visuals gamers expect as a result of their decisions.

The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers, left handed gamers or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts.

In a sheer insult to PC gamers, the developer has locked out keyboard and mouse controls on this game. The developer demands, without compromise, that you must use a console peasant children's toy gamepad to play this garbage game. This is simply unacceptable, developers must never dictate to gamers how a game is to be consumed.

Another defect in the game caused by the console-peasant-centric design is the intolerably bad camera controls. There's no effective mouselook, and control of the viewing angles is deliberately outside of reasonable control from the user.

This defect springs from the limitations of inferior console peasant children's toy gamepads, but on PC we don't have this limitation due to KB+M controls... however, the developer deliberately chose to arrogantly foist this handicap onto PC gamers. Out of spite, or laziness, it's unclear, regardless, once more console peasants and console devs have made gaming worse for everyone.

Because this is designed for handheld/portable gaming appliances, it carries a number of deliberate design deficiencies. Compromises were made to cater to the low power handheld gaming appliances that the game was designed for. These are unfortunate compromises and limitations that PC gamers shouldn't be forced to accept, but it's evident that PC was a second thought for the mobile game developers. The game is deficient as a result of these choices, and would have been so much better without the handicaps that designing games for low power handhelds forces upon a game. While this might run well on a Steam Deck, we must remember the vast majority of gamers here are gaming on PC.

These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.

The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 11 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.

For comparison, the $20 asking price for this game could get you games like "Satisfactory", "Red Dead Redemption 2" or "Factorio". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this.

So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam?

Gelly Break Deluxe has the almost comically optimistic (if it wasn't so sad) price of $20 USD, for which you could easily get any number of older AAA games. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend.

For comparison, the $20 asking price for this game could get you games like "Satisfactory", "Red Dead Redemption 2" or "Factorio". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this.

TWENTY BUCKS FOR A GARBAGE NINTENDO SWITCH GAME. Are they delusional?

Posted 21 September.

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3.6 hrs on record

Knockout Party is a simplistic, shallow and abandoned 4 player PvP arena brawler/shooter with lulzy ragdoll physics. It was an abject failure, for many reasons, most of them obvious, so let's get into it.

The focus of the game is pure PvP, there's no single player content. The developer gambled that other players would be an acceptable substitute for adding storytelling, level design etc to the game. The vast majority of PvP-only games fail because they don't "go viral", and without players, or single player content to add a lasting value to the game, the game dies. Developers must learn that other players are not an acceptable substitute for adding content to a game.It failed. SteamDB shows the game hit all-time peak player numbers just after launch, with only a tiny 30 concurrent users, which is a pitiful number, and now the game has practically no players, with nobody playing at all, just one or two people logging on every week or so then quickly deleting the game when they see how bad it is. Why did it fail? It's video game autopsy time!

From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.

There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision.

The game features lazy low-polygon "retro" assets, making this look like a barely functional 3D game from the 1990s. It's unclear why the developers weren't able to arrange high quality, high polygon count contemporary assets for the game, and also irrelevant... what matters is that this looks bad as a result of their decisions, a compromise PC gamers shouldn't have to put up with.

The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers, left handed gamers or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts.

The developers made the fatal, lazy mistake of believing that PvP, other players, would be an acceptable substitute for doing the difficult job of adding single player level design, storytelling, NPCs and other rich aspects of designed game content to the game. As a result of this choice by the developers, the game has little to no actual interactive game content. It's a little considered fact that the vast majority of PvP only, multiplayer only games fail. Developers must learn that other players are not an acceptable substitute for doing the job of game developers and building a game filled with content. PvP only games must have a huge player base for them to "go viral" and succeed. But with no single player experience to add lasting value to a game, the developers instead chose to bet against all odds that their game would "go viral" without any actual reason for players to want to play the game. Predictably, they lost this bet.

Unethically, the developers have left this on the Steam store in an unplayable and broken state (because there's no players and no single player content). It's the responsibility of the developer to maintain their product, ensure it runs on all modern PCs, or if they determine there's defects and the game doesn't work, or the population dies, they should remove it from sale instead of misleadingly trying to scam gamers into buying knowingly abandoned/dead products.

This is harmful to Steam and to gamers, not just because it's a direct and intentional attempt to scam people, but because it takes a share of the marketing space and visibility away from other games. It's polluting Steam and making it harder for gamers to find genuine games and for genuine indie developers who put months or years into making proper games find an audience.

So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam?

For starters, this dead game is also massively overpriced. The $7 asking price for this game could get you playable, working games like "The Elder Scrolls Online", "Far Cry 5" or "Metro Exodus". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this.

The developer is deliberately and unethically trying to scam gamers into paying them the laughable price of $7 USD for a game they know is abandoned. Don't give it to them.

Posted 21 September.

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2.4 hrs on record

Two notable criteria for what makes an asset flip instead of legitimate use of stock assets are whether those assets comprise the majority of the game, and whether the "developer" properly credited the people who created most of the assets in the game. This game fails both of those tests. The "developers" here didn't credit any of the artists and real, actual game developers who created the assets here, so this is plagiarism, as well as cash grab shovelware.

In this case, the asset flipper took a basic Sirenhead asset (one of those SCP type mild horror things, a giant slenderman but with traffic lights/sirents instead of a head, whatever), a basic Unity 3D forest environment, a picture of an anime girl stolen off the internet and a couple of other assets and made a very simple scavenger hunt with jumpscares. Typical zero effort Russian asset flip shovelware. It has no value or merit as a real game.

Guilty Pleasure Games have a known history of trying to scam people into paying them money for someone else's work, through this account or through closely linked/alt accounts. One example of Guilty Pleasure Games doing this is Car Constructor, which is really the "Keeree Car Constructor[keereedev.wordpress.com]" asset, written by the actual developers, Keeree.

Taking this shovelware seriously as if it was a genuine attempt to make a game, it doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.

There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision.

The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers, left handed gamers or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts.

These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.

The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 4 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.

This kind of asset flipping isn't harmless. It makes it harder for gamers to find genuinely made games from ethical developers. It makes it harder for genuine indie developers, who put hard work into trying to make real games, to find an audience for their products. It gives indie developers a bad name.

So, should you buy this asset flip? Is this better than any of the 100,000+ genuinely made games on Steam? Of course not!

Light Head Hentai Edition is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, and the questionable ethical nature of the developer and/or their associates (as outlined above), this is impossible to recommend. Remember that if you buy a game from an unethical developer, you're putting your money at risk.

Note: Due to the very poor quality of the game, all the comedians came out of the woodwork. The vast majority of the reviews for this game are joke reviews, such as "this game cured my cancer, saved my marriage, changed my life" etc. Because most of the reviews are as insincere/mocking the game, and if you removed the fake/joke reviews the game would have a markedly different review score, the positive review score for this game should be disregarded.

Posted 21 September.

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2.7 hrs on record

Another lazy asset flip from this guy. All he does is take existing Unreal Marketplace asset packs/3D environments, rearranges them a little (sometimes), and slaps on some basic walking simulator FPS code to make a minimum viable product. Never once has Tonguc admitted the work isn't his, he consistently tries to mislead and scam gamers into paying him money for someone else's work.

Obviously this asset flipped walking sim fails the two tests for whether a game is an asset flip or not. The game is 100% made of other people's assets, Tonguc didn't create anything in this game, it's all stolen from other, real asset creators and game developers. And of course, Tonguc didn't credit any of these people, he's trying to make gamers think this is all his own work, when it isn't. It's not hard to put up a credits page... unless you don't want people to know who really made the most of the game.

There's nothing to this shallow walking sim... it's not narrative driven like proper walking sims (Dear Elise etc), all you do is wander around the Unreal asset environment and collect some stuff. That's it. It's utterly valueless as far as "games" are concerned. And we're here on Steam, looking for real, genuinely made games, not this morally bankrupt plagiarism.

The poor quality of this asset flip is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 7 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.

This kind of asset flipping isn't harmless. It makes it harder for gamers to find genuinely made games from ethical developers. It makes it harder for genuine indie developers, who put hard work into trying to make real games, to find an audience for their products. It gives indie developers a bad name.

So, should you buy this asset flip? Is this better than any of the 100,000+ genuinely made games on Steam? Of course not!

Chionophile is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, and the questionable ethical nature of the developer and/or their associates (as outlined above), this is impossible to recommend. Remember that if you buy a game from an unethical developer, you're putting your money at risk.

This game features a small number of suspicious, probably fake Day 1 positive reviews. The reviews all appear at almost exactly the same time, within 24 hours of the asset flip launching on Steam, all have a direct Steam purchase of the game, and all have very similar wording and writing style. Immediately after this huge peak of reviews, reviews (and player counts) for the game dropped incredibly sharply. This is highly unusual given the very low quality of the game and poor player counts. The "Positive" review score on this game should be taken with a large grain of salt. This might have been done to deceive/mislead gamers into paying for a bad product. We already know the developer is trying to mislead gamers into giving him money for someone elses Unreal Marketplace assets.

Posted 21 September.

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3.0 hrs on record

"Field of Glory: Empires" is a "me too" entry in a somewhat well served niche of ancient Roman turn based strategy games, trying to sit somewhere between being a ripoff of Europa Universalis and being a Ripoff of Total War: Rome, but being significanlty worse than both, with some completely irritating business practices bolted on... well, it wouldn't be a Slitherine game unless they priced and marketed it to try screw gamers as much as possible.

When you try to first start a campaign, by default it launches the Steam overlay and takes you to the DLC store as they try scam you into buying somewhat empty DLC just so you can play a game you already just bought. Screw that. After a while you can find one of the two campaigns that's included in the game, and off you go. Yep, it's basically the strategic view for Total War: Rome, only not as good, and yet also needlessly convoluted.

But don't worry... there's a tutorial! Oh no wait, it's just a playlist of Youtube videos. Yeah, the developer couldn't even work out how to make an interactive tutorial! Go watch a streamer instead! Is this a joke? Wait until you see the price!

Wading into the game you'll discover you can't do any of the Total War: Rome combat because that's in a completely different game you also have to buy. See, this is why it's almost imposssible to recommend Slitherine games to anyone. They're B-grade ripoffs of far better strategy games, and they sell for twice the price, if you're lucky. It's a weird business model, and I don't like it.

On the technical implementation side, while this is far from brilliant, the basic checks are passed... customisable resolution, a few tweaks, it's not insulting to the eyes... no, the problem here is more with the pricing, marketing, and what you get for your money... and what you get is less than you could get if you shop the competition.

You're forced to sign a highly questionable yet legally unenforceable End User License Agreement... for such a relatively low effort, low quality game this comes across more as a delusion of grandeur than anything else. This agreement includes questionable requirements that may attempt to revoke consumer law protections that gamers expect to have, which is also highly problematic. Developers must learn they are here to serve gamers, not control them. I had my cat walk over the keyboard while the EULA was displaying, which fixed that problem for me.

So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam?

"Field of Glory: Empires" has the almost scam-like price of $40 USD (insane, right), for which you could easily get any number of older AAA games. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. This is over TWICE THE PRICE of the latest Total War: Rome game!!!

Unfortunately Steam reviewers aren't presented with a "Maybe" option... if they did, that's what I'd choose. This isn't a completely bad game, but it's also not one of the best. As always, if you read my review and you can overlook the negatives I've called out, or they just aren't important to you, then by all means go ahead and buy this, if you've already played the competitors games to death, and yet still want more (and don't care if it's not as good).

Posted 21 September. Last edited 21 September.

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3.8 hrs on record

I'm not really sure if Shark Attack Deathmatch 2 is an asset flip. Some elements of this game certainly make it seem like the developer put some effort into assembling some kind of original here. On the other hand, a lot of the game assets don't seem like they were created by the developer, but they haven't credited any asset creators for supplying assets, which might be a case of plagiarism. There's no evidence, so we need to give the benefit of the doubt... regardless, asset flip or not, the quality here is indistinguishable from many asset flip/cash grab scams, and that's a problem in itself.

This is an unusual FPS arena game where instead of the usual tacticool special forces soldier dudes blasting each other over and over again, you get to play as a diver or shark and fight other divers and sharks in an underwater arena. Fine. So there's a few game modes, but ultimately the focus of the game is PVP and there's no players, so all you really can get up to in this is fight sharks in the "Survival" single player arena... which is just wave survival stuff. It's pretty shallow and uninteresting as a game, so it's no surprise players abandoned it very quickly after picking it up.

On the upside, the game does feature customisable controls and resolution, so at least some of the basic, minimum requirements have been met. Unfortunately there's a number of other technical defects and shortcomings which contribute to the game being difficult to recommend to gamers.

These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.

Shark Attack Deathmatch 2 didn't appeal much to the people who own a copy of the game, either. It has achievements, and they show us a very clear picture that the game didn't really capture any interest from gamers. The most commonly and easily attained achievement is "Rank 1", playing a deathmatch, trivial to get, but less than 32 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling the game. Hardly a success story, even the people who own this game weren't interested in it.

Reviewing SteamDB to check how popular this game was with players reveals a surprise... there's a modest spike in player counts for the game. But this only happened once, around the same time that trading cards were applied to the game... so this is just card idlers getting their cards and moving on. A closer look at the numbers shows the game just has a couple of players every week running up the game and idling it for cards, then deleting it. We must ask how it benefits gamers for there to be so many games like this, with no merit as a serious game, that only generate sales from people idling and selling the trading cards.

Shark Attack Deathmatch 2 has the far too high price of around $5 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam.

For comparison, the $5 asking price for this game could get you games like "Mass Effect", "Just Cause 2" or "Far Cry 3". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this.

Posted 21 September.

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3.1 hrs on record

Awe is a fairly basic Unity asset flipped first person horror adventure, one of many hundreds, if not thousands of these glutting Steam. The "developer" paid for/pirated a few Unity asset store packs, arranged them haphazardly in a first person adventure game template, and submitted it to Valve as if they're real game developers.

Two notable criteria for what makes an asset flip instead of legitimate use of stock assets are whether those assets comprise the majority of the game, and whether the "developer" properly credited the people who created most of the assets in the game. This game fails both of those tests. The "developers" here didn't credit any of the artists and real, actual game developers who created the assets here, so this is plagiarism, as well as cash grab shovelware.

Of course I don't make these accusations lightly but the sheer number of "borrowed" assets here is remarkable. An example, the first thing you see is a helicopter asset which was stolen from this asset pack: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/vehicles/land/police-car-helicopter-52496

Likewise the nature scenery is all ripped from NatureManufacture's asset packs.

All you do in this lazy asset flip is wander around an asset flipped town, solve a few asset flipped puzzles, and avoid the asset flipped monster that chases you around to try jumpscare you.

The same is true for everything else in the game. It's shameless. These assets are just intended to be used as placeholders, not make up the entirety of a game so the developer can just slap out garbage in half a day and expect to be paid for the work of others.

Taking this shovelware seriously as if it was a genuine attempt to make a game, it doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.

These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.

The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 2 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.

For comparison, the $5 asking price for this game could get you games like "DOOM", "Batman: Arkham Asylumn" or "Left 4 Dead 2". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this.

This kind of asset flipping isn't harmless. It makes it harder for gamers to find genuinely made games from ethical developers. It makes it harder for genuine indie developers, who put hard work into trying to make real games, to find an audience for their products. It gives indie developers a bad name.

So, should you buy this asset flip? Is this better than any of the 100,000+ genuinely made games on Steam? Of course not!

Awe has the greedy, cash grab price of around $5 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam.

For comparison, the $5 asking price for this game could get you games like "DOOM", "Batman: Arkham Asylumn" or "Left 4 Dead 2". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this.

Posted 21 September. Last edited 21 September.

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3.4 hrs on record

Warning: Asset Flip![en.wikipedia.org]

The Visitors is a Unity Asset flip, what Valve calls a "fake game". The "developer", Immersive-Games/MadManGames, took the Third Person Controller - Basic Locomotion Free[assetstore.unity.com] Unity Store game assets from the real developers, Invector, changed the name, and dumped the result onto Steam. They're attempting to scam people into buying this, so they can get your money for someone else's work.

It gets worse... "Third Person Controller - Basic Locomotion Free" has also been shamelessly dumped on Steam by other asset flippers apart from Immersive-Games/MadManGames:

"Parkour Game", asset flipped by Ready To Play

Take a look for yourself... it's exactly the same game!

Because this is an almost exact 1:1 copy + paste of the original Unity asset, it's in violation of the Unity Asset Store Terms of Service and EULA[unity.com]. Specifically, Section 2, Subsection 2.2.1a:

Because the developer misused the asset pack such that it comprises the vast majority of this "game", the developer has unethically and deliberately breached the license agreement. Worse, this intellectual property violation was done in an attempt to profit from their illicit actions. Why is this permitted on Steam?

The products that result from asset flips aren't "real" games. They lack depth and content, because they're just simplistic copies of demos or tutorials. In this case, "Third Person Controller - Basic Locomotion Free" is just a basic tutorial pack with placeholder assets to teach people how to make a 3D platformer with Unity, and doesn't have any merit as a proper, fully fledged PC game, so this copy+paste of it can't be recommended.

Asset flips don't involve any professional game development. Sure, sometimes they may change a few cosmetic things, swap out different assets etc, but at heart it's functionally identical to the asset they're ripping off.

Asset flips like this are harmful to the gaming industry and to Steam because they reduce the visibility that sincerely made indie games should have, and make it harder for gamers to find real games from genuine developers.

Don't reward this morally bankrupt, unethical behaviour from Immersive-Games/MadManGames.

Posted 21 September.

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