Agelast

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Agelast is a fairly basic first person adventure, one of many hundreds, if not thousands of these glutting Steam. The "developer" grabbed a few Unity asset store packs and other 3D models and assets, arranged them haphazardly in a first person adventure game template, and submitted it to Valve as if they're real game developers. This is supposed to be a horror game, it's incomplete feeling, you just wander around some school with a bunch of copy + pasted assets, unlock some doors... it doesn't make a lot of sense. I guess the true horror is that someone thought it would be okay to publish such a badly made game onto Steam at all. This game has been translated from some other language into English... badly. If this was done through Google Translate, Google Translate should feel ashamed of itself. Regardless, the language in this game is broken and will put off a lot of gamers. Controls are locked, and the flipped assets aren't even good ones, so the game looks pretty bad visually, too. At least they're giving this away rather than trying to profit from asset flipping, which is the only thing that makes this not an asset "flip"... the lack of profit. But the qualities of this game are indistinguishable from a for-profit asset flip, and that's what this is all about... the value that this product represents for gamers. Here? None. The poor quality of this game is 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 12 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 download this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam? The game is completely free. This is noble a gesture that shows dedication to both gamers, and the gaming industry. Nothing speaks more to a developers belief in themselves and their product than making their game available for everyone without remuneration. It's a shame in this case that the implementation is below the minimum standards a dedicated PC game should offer to enthusiasts. The quality here is simply too low for me to recommend, even for free.