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FreeKillB
May 13, 2009
Trolling Steam releases for 'gems' is surprisingly fun. A lot of games look bad for fairly boring reasons, but some really stand out.

I present Reptilians Must Die!:

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"Reptilians Must Die" - an amazing adventure game with a gripping storyline, based on the right patriotic education and spiritual scrapie fixed!

2015. Mikhail Ivanovich carry out his duties of president of Russia, and suddenly at the height of work day aliens call. They say that they are ready to destroy the humanity and only MI can save the planet from destruction. Sure MI accepts the challenge. But not alone - true friends, women that are in love with him and of course people of Russia. Journey to the future, space flight, meeting with Stalin - that's what will wait for you in new original game "Reptilians Must Die"!




For the life of me, my brain just stops working when I try to interpret that last screenshot. :pwn:

FreeKillB fucked around with this message at 02:19 on Feb 1, 2017

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FreeKillB
May 13, 2009
Zombitatos the end of the Pc master race :pwn:

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About This Game
Welcome to the apocalyptic world of Zombitatos!

Are you ready for the most hilarious point and click adventure that you have ever seen?

You are going to play as 2 survivors in this comedy full motion video point and click adventure! There are puzzle elements to keep your brain entertain!, lots of easter eggs, a unique style of humor, and an interactive storyline, which means you can make choices that will influence your adventure!

Find out who did the zombie apocalypse! Trump? GabeN? Jesus? Who knows...

All of this in Zombitatos : the end of the pc master race!

Are you ready to survive?




This is a game you can pay money for on Steam.

FreeKillB
May 13, 2009
Save Jesus

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In this fantasy puzzle game you need to kill Romans, by redirecting traps and keeping Jesus and his friends alive.

Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps.

Your Mission:
- Redirect the traps
- Kill the Romans
- Protect Jesus & his friends from an onslaught of weapons

Features:
- Boulders, Spikes, Skulls, Fireballs, Holy Balls, Holy Cows
- 50 Levels of increasing difficulty
- A variety of physics-based challenges
- Steam Trading Cards
- Steam Achievements

Find the impostor & destroy his Time Machine, before his machine destroys Time!


Only YOU can Save Jesus!





FreeKillB
May 13, 2009
Yeah but unless Steam's algorithm is working very differently for you than it is for me, those hundreds of games are generally not promoted on the front page or recommendations. If you judge the problem with discoverability using the baseline of 'consumers look at the list of ALL recently released Steam games' then yes it appears that Steam is overwhelmed with terrible titles but this is not a reasonable measure.

e: it does look like the 'upcoming titles' section of the frontpage is filled with games that are low effort cashgrabs, but it does seem in this case the problem is 'some developers are optimizing their entries to game the algorithm'. One could interpret this as a 'too many bad games' problem, but it's a general issue with relying on the algorithm in cases where you don't have more concrete data to work off of (ie sales/reviews, not that these metrics don't have issues).

FreeKillB fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Jun 3, 2018

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