Alpha Zylon is an ancient game from 2007. It's a whopping 17 years old at the time of this review. The game surprisingly does support customisable controls, widescreen resolution and even 4K support, but everything else about this is a train wreck, and not just because of the age. Despite these problems, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an ancient game. This seems to have been put on Steam as a nostalgia gouge, or just a cash grab to try profit from abandonware.
On the upside, the game does feature customisable controls and resolution, so at least some of the basic, minimum requirements have been met. Unfortunately, even in 2007 this was shovelware, and it's more so today.
The character models and animations are laughably bad, the controls and handling are a clunky mess. If this was made today it would have been a mobile app, and a bad one. Remember that in 2007 we were playing Crysis, Bioshock and Portal. And not this.
So, should you buy this abandonware? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam?
Alpha Zylon is relatively expensive for an abandonware nostalgia gouge, at $4 USD, and it's not worth it. The game is just too old, hasn't been modernised. And as the old saying goes, you can't go home again. Even when it was new, this was never a triple-A game. This is the kind of game that went almost directly from the warehouse into the cheap bargain bins at the front of the shop. Now, on Steam, without any modernisation? This is impossible to recommend. This is also competing with over 11,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.
[b]Note:[/b] Due to the very poor quality of the game, all the comedians came out of the woodwork. The vast majority of the reviews for this game are joke reviews, such as "this game cured my cancer, saved my marriage, changed my life" etc. Because most of the reviews are as insincere/mocking the game, and if you removed the fake/joke reviews the game would have a markedly different review score, the positive review score for this game should be disregarded.
