A Visit to Friends

Neat game with lots interesting ideas. There are multiple levels with very different stories and varied gameplay styles, so even if you didn't like one level there's still 3 more to try out. This game is very narrative focused and the stories it tells range from abstract to straightforward, with pleasant handmade music to make the journey enjoyable to listen to as well as to play. I recommend giving it a shot!

Мужики, спасайте, если наберём 10 лайков и 5 наград, то жена подарит ящик пива

"A Visit to Friends" is a badly made 2D retro collection of four really poor minigames with some of the laziest technical execution ever made. Sure, it's free, but so is stubbing your toe. All you do is wander around in each minigame and do some stuff... it's shallower than many Russian asset flips and game dev student projects. This features really godawful, lazy pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks bad because of that decision, and that's a major deterrent to gamers. Games like Terraria and Stardew Valley succeeded [i]despite[/i] the bad graphics, not because of them. It's free... now, but it wasn't before. The developer was charging $3 USD for this. Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It's a nice gesture for the game to be given away for free, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 3 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? Nope. This isn't worth downloading. While this didn't cost me any money up front, I still feel ripped off.