NoneMoreNegative posted:

lmao I got an Isthereanydeal notification for 'God of War' on sale for a fiver!? Never seen it so cheap!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1197180/Spider_Queen_cave/

ahah the fuckin' video man

NoneMoreNegative posted:

Crossposting this here for the terrible awful deceitfulness and for your man desperately wanting to ogle his sister in the bath?? Also titty-spider-women, natch.

MATURE CONTENT DESCRIPTION posted:

The developers describe the content like this:

There will be two scenes of bathing during the game

Valve Steamworks documentation posted:

Where your game's name is defined

Your game's name is defined in three main locations:

Store info - On the "Basic Info" tab under "Edit Store". This name is used within the Steam store, including search results.
Steamworks Info - On the "General Application Settings" tab under Steamworks Settings. This name is used within the Steam library and the Steam Community.
Package Info - Each store package that sells your game. This is used to present your purchase option shown on your store page and during the checkout process.

ultrafilter posted:

I've been seeing recommendations for a lot of games that cost exactly $1 and all have 10 positive reviews from accounts that only own 1 or 2 games. seel35games and didlstudio came up today, but there've probably been others. I guess the goal here is just to make money off people who are willing to buy something that looks questionable if it's cheap, but who knows?

ultrafilter posted:

I've been seeing recommendations for a lot of games that cost exactly $1 and all have 10 positive reviews from accounts that only own 1 or 2 games. seel35games and didlstudio came up today, but there've probably been others. I guess the goal here is just to make money off people who are willing to buy something that looks questionable if it's cheap, but who knows?

ultrafilter posted:

I've been seeing recommendations for a lot of games that cost exactly $1 and all have 10 positive reviews from accounts that only own 1 or 2 games. seel35games and didlstudio came up today, but there've probably been others. I guess the goal here is just to make money off people who are willing to buy something that looks questionable if it's cheap, but who knows?

The MSJ posted:

Guess why many people hate this game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vZzIQlTzVA

Anime Store Adventure posted:

I keep this thread bookmarked and everytime I read the title “you have to say pif paf out loud to shoot” I laugh like an idiot. It gets more absurd the more I think about it.

Glagha posted:

I saw the ManlyBadassHero video on that game is that like, the entire game? I know it's a subject that's been beat to death but what is it with horror games that are all like 45 minutes long and introduce a bunch of characters and lore and poo poo but then you have like one scripted running sequence and then it's over?

Glagha posted:

I saw the ManlyBadassHero video on that game is that like, the entire game? I know it's a subject that's been beat to death but what is it with horror games that are all like 45 minutes long and introduce a bunch of characters and lore and poo poo but then you have like one scripted running sequence and then it's over?

Glagha posted:

I saw the ManlyBadassHero video on that game is that like, the entire game? I know it's a subject that's been beat to death but what is it with horror games that are all like 45 minutes long and introduce a bunch of characters and lore and poo poo but then you have like one scripted running sequence and then it's over?

The Cheshire Cat posted:

Five Nights at Freddy's made a bazillion dollars doing this and everybody else thinks it will work again.

ErrEff posted:

The market for these games are YouTubers who cater to children and fan wiki editors that obsess over extensively categorizing all the “lore”.

Do you guys have any idea how many FNAF novels have been published? These guys want a piece of that pie.

bessantj posted:

Clarste posted:

I mean, it's not wrong, you will learn a lot about yourself if you pay thousands of dollars for a trash game simply out of curiosity. It's also true that the contents of the nonsense inside don't matter even slightly.

bessantj posted:

Alright sounds interesting, let's look at the pri...

Schwarzwald posted:

Wait, you're allowed to charge arbitrarily high for steam jank?

I think less of every awful game developer after learning this. They need to step up their game.

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It is impossible to state how poor this game is, and that's not counting the excellent "translation". (Maybe it reads better in French or one of the other languages, but I somehow doubt the story is saner.)

- As a visual novel, the game is a debacle. The story is an atrocious mess of jargon which is apparently a side-story to the creator's epic "Dragon and Weed" (This is not a joke, it explains this in a heavily abridged form in a submenu you can find) saga that you can bet your arse I'm never going to look up. There are maybe 4 "branch points" in the game. They do nothing. Save and click either option! Nothing changes at all. As a result, you're just here to watch whatever strange superpowered wankfest this is play out over a few hours, with the occasional break in the form of...
- Quick-Time Events. No, seriously. Keep your hand on the keyboard and make sure you're familiar with french keyboard layouts, because that's what the keys are bound around. Earlier in the game there are more of these and then they just stop, like even the developer realized how dumb they were and didn't care enough to remove them. At least one failed to register for me until I restarted the game, so don't go in expecting them to be tightly-coded, either.
- The game says it runs in some sort of custom 3D engine! Probably to allow for the QTEs. It's not very good and somehow it crashed twice on me in the process of playing. A visual novel with no branch points crashed on me. Just take in how much of a wreck it is that this is a thing I'm writing. It wasn't a hard thing to test, fella.
- I don't speak the other languages to compare, but the English script is a debacle. Characters will repeat the same line back at each other randomly, some phrases are just entirely garbage (my favorite line in the game: "It's seems that Menkens hathwart someone he shouldn't. Men of the Bad Santass are here and not to joke..."), and more than a few lines just stopped a word in and continued on like the script wasn't matching up with timing somehow. Others were just still in French for no reason. Unlike a lot of VNs, there's no rewind function, so I hope you like being left in the dark or restarting entire chapters to figure out what the hell is going on. It's not going to help.
- The art is terrible. Action scenes don't feel kinetic, they feel like someone on Deviantart just learned Photoshop has filters. One of the climactic moments of the story has a man take off his shirt and then suddenly the screen is a mess of glowing red chains, because "he used to tame the tigers". It then cuts to black and suddenly he's beat up a little.
- I hope you don't want a soundtrack, because the only accompaniment the game has are some three-note "baby's first music" compositions, a lot of generic stock sound effects like gunfire or explosions, and most of the game is silent. Entirely silent.
- I guess the obscene price on here is part of some kind of weird scam by the creator to get you to buy it from him elsewhere directly rather than give Steam a cut. (I got a review key.) It's not worth buying, so take neither route. This thing is a trainwreck, and in that sad "400 passengers dead" style rather than the "oh man it's so bad it's good" fashion.