A Dream For Aaron

Verrrry good fun game i like !

A Dream For Aaron is a very badly made amateur story/level based FPS, where you run around and shoot various nightmare creatures/blobs/whatever. The game assets are really, really bad, so at least this isn't an asset flip. No self respecting asset creator would ever publish or sell such assets. One important note is that even though this is an amateur project, it does seem to be sincerely and genuinely made. I couldn't find any flipped assets, plagiarism or any other kind of insincere actions from the developer, but unfortunately genuine intentions alone are not enough to produce a brilliant PC gaming experience. The developer produced this game on their own, failing to hire professional staff, allocate sufficient budget, and other resources to the development of this game. This is a lot like trying to drive a car using only your feet. It can be done, perhaps, but it's almost certain to end in disaster. Trying to to the job wrong, without professional resources, on purpose, will not result in a product that has high value for gamers. Game development is a serious endeavour and can only succeed when professionally managed, and the right time, money and resources are allocated to the teams that are needed to produce a high quality game. 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 assets are fairly mediocre/low quality, in some places they appear mismatched... Ultimately the quality of these assets, and thus the overall visual quality is lower than average, and low quality always makes for a less than optimal gaming experience. Remember, we're looking for the best of the best of 100,000+ games on Steam. The game features lazy low-polygon "retro" assets, making this look like a barely functional 3D game from the mid 2000s. 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. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. A Dream For Aaron 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 for killing 100 enemies, trivial to get, but less than 37 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling the game. Hardly a success story, gamers just weren't all that interested in the game. The poor quality of this game is also 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 3 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 game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam? A Dream For Aaron has the almost unethical price of around $9 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 $9 asking price for this game could get you games like "Shadow Warrior", "Batman: Arkham City" or "Batman: Arkham Origins". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this.

you should pick up this game to play c; i highly recommend it . its got alot of replay value indeed c; i loved playing this game c; i let's play this game on my youtube channel and enjoyed it every bit of it c; Keep it vidas i love your games and especially loved this game c; 10/10

Je n'aime pas les *FPS* normalement, mais ce jeux, wow! tellement artistique, à essayer :3

It's not that bad of a game but I do have several issues with it. -All the ennemies don't make footstep sounds. -No recoil on the gun so you have laser aim. -Inconsistant use of invisible walls. -The ending is lackluster. [spoiler]Aaron just give the dream back and that's it. [/spoiler] -The medals are hard to see, that wouldn't be a problem if some of the levels wouldn't be that fu***** huge for no reason. -The attempt at comedy is pretty meh. -The maps are randomly choosen, but once you played all of them it cripple the replay value a lot, it's the kind of game that would take advantage a lot of a procedural generation system. -The music is atrocious but you can turn it off. -Ennemies can cross and shoot trough walls.

Muy caro su jugabilidad es pesima.

JUST BAD

A.D.F.A. is a unique looking, albeit strange game. In all fairness, one of the strangest I've ever played. It can be categorised as a dream infused Rogue-lite FPS, and despite it's originality, the game remains in EA as of today. A new version was released not long ago, but the game still remains unfinished. It runs perfectly well on Steam Deck as you can see by pressing the link below: https://youtu.be/2eC03q1y33M