ALPEN GHOUL: Prologue

ALPEN GHOUL: Prologue — сбегайка от бабайки. Альпийской бабайки. Бабайка смешная. А вот лабиринты тутошние унылые. Единственное отличие от других представителей жанра, что у нас вроде как альпы, и ГГ вроде как лыжник. В остальном… да всё то же самое, ничего интересного. Как итог: я даже хз отчего рейтинг то такой синий, игра ни о чём. Полную не возьму, мне демки хватило. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1276831459 [i]P.s: если этот обзор был для Вас полезен ставьте лайк, а также добавляйтесь в друзья и подписывайтесь на меня как куратора - [url=store.steampowered.com/curator/28776273/] Обзоры онлайн [/url][/i]

"ALPEN GHOUL: Prologue" is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "Alpen Ghoul". Alpen Ghoul is unreleased and may never be (this advert for the product came out a year and a half ago, and the luke warm reception hasn't given the developers much incentive to bother finishing it). It's supposed to be some kind of die-and-retry horror jumpscare game, but it looks a lot more like yet another asset flip to me. But this isn't completely relevant because this is not Alpen Ghoul, it's just an advertisment for it, so it's not correct to try to review that completely distinct product. We must instead review this for what it is... an advertisement. If you enjoy advertisements, you can consume them for free on the web or on Youtube without needing to add them to your game library, download them, and then launch the advertising. It's impossible in a general sense to recommend people should do that over playing real, full games on Steam, and that applies here with "ALPEN GHOUL: Prologue" too. This is only free in the same way that adverts on Youtube and banner ads in your browser are. This is a game demo that's been dumped on Steam to advertise another Steam store page in the hopes of raking in some cash. Just because advertisements are free, doesn't mean they're worth your time. It's important to understand there's a formal process to create a demo/page for a game which hasn't been followed here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos While it might seem like an inocuous mistake, publishing demos and advertisements as if they are full games is misleading and in some ways harmful. This advertisement is taking up marketing space and visibility that would be better made available to a developer that's done the right thing and created a full game. Instead, that visibility is given over to a demo/advert that's been published incorrectly and is polluting the marketplace. It's unclear if this mistake was made through incompetence or a deliberate intent to mislead gamers. Often developers may choose to incorrectly publish demo/advertisements as separate games as a cheap way to bypass paying Valve for marketing presence on the Steam front page, which may seem clever to them, but it's harmful behaviour and it's not good for gamers. 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. Advertisements and incorrectly published demos don't add +1 to your game collector count, they aren't full games. It's impossible for me to recommend this incorrectly published advertising spam to gamers, you deserve better than adverts.