"Aerial Guardian" is yet another of those games where the developers really didn't think before slapping $100 USD down into Steam Direct. This is... yep, you guessed it, a dead PvP arena shooter. From developers who genuinely thought that putting down yet another PvP arena shooter, but with slightly worse graphics than the others, and no single player content or redeeming features, would result in their product "going viral" and them making a lot of money somehow.
This is a game where you can't do anything because there's no players. The graphics aren't that good either. When are developers going to learn that other players are not a substitute for doing the job of a game developer and creating content? Not today, apparently. Anyway it's pretty obvious why this died... there's no compelling reason to play this "slightly worse than all the others" PvP arena shooter.
The developers abandoned this 6 years and 5 months ago. It will never be completed. This unfinished game is just polluting Steam and making it harder for gamers to find genuinely, completely made games.
The graphics in this game are passable, but could be better. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here.
Not every "free" game really is. There's often MTX, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of things that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game.
Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming industry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable.
Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at just a dozen or so concurrent players, and now there's basically nobody playing it. Even though it's free. This is a dismal public reception, but it's easy to see why gamers rejected it.
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?
Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.
