雛ちゃんブレイカー2ndBreak

Hours played at review time, across 40 reviews with recorded playtime.

It's obvious "雛ちゃんブレイカー2ndBreak" is a blatant, low-effort clone of Angry Birds (Copyright Rovio, 2009). It seems some "amateur" developers think copyright laws are optional, choosing to ripoff games from real developers without conscience. But worse than that, the developer also blatantly ripped off Zun's copyrighted Touhou intellectual properly. Now, Zun does permit non-commercial use of his copyrighted work most of the time, so it's unlikely anyone will take legal action here, however, we have to acknowledge just how morally and creatively bankrupt it is to steal someone else's IP and someone else's entire game concept and try to get famous from other people's ideas and creativity. Beyond the obvious ethical and creative bankruptcy involved stealing other people's game ideas, they failed the basic rule of game design: if you are going to rip off someone else's game, you have to at least try to improve on it. Instead, "雛ちゃんブレイカー2ndBreak" is much worse than the original . This lack of an English translation for the game doesn't really matter. The language of shovelware games is universal. I couldn't find this on the app stores, but for all intents and purposes this could have been a mobile app. We're here for best of breed PC gaming experiences, and this is about as far from that as you can get. That alone is enough to disqualify this from any recommendation. We don't spend thousands building gaming rigs so that we can pretend they're iPhones and play iPhone games and mobile apps. The game features really lacklustre 2D visuals (does the developer not know 3D graphics became mainstream in the mid-1990s?). Gamers don't spend thousands of dollars on gaming rigs and the latest 3D graphics cards to play 2D games. Even mobile phones and game consoles can do 3D graphics now. There's no excuse. Let's talk about price and the value this represents for us gamers. This is "free" enough (not every "free" game in the "free" section is truly free, there's usually some hidden price tag), at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good, and the cost of a game is more than just financial, your time is valuable too. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 130 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB shows this peaked at less than 100 concurrent players... they couldn't even break three figures! Even though it's free, it's a dismal reception, but it's easy to see why gamers rejected it. Since free games don't contribute to your game collector badge and other profile stuff, is this a worthwhile addition to your Steam library? Nope. This is just impossible to recommend to serious gamers. There's no up front price, but I still feel like I got ripped off.