Amazething

Fun and casual little maze runner.

"Amazething" has nothing to do with mazes, making me think the developer doesn't know what a maze is, although I'm pretty sure given the completely lazy mobile/Flash tier technical delivery the developer doesn't know what a PC game is either. I wonder why this failed so badly? What do you do in the game? Well, it's not a maze, it's obvious how to negotiate every puzzle level, just don't hit the obstacles and move your way through the minimalist 2D levels. Why would you want to do this? Well, you wouldn't. That's why nobody bothered with this. This game features very lacklustre minimalist "art" for graphics instead of anything remotely contemporary. I'm sure the "developer" thought this would come across as "artistic", but it doesn't, it comes across as "really lazy". Yes, contemporary 3D graphics take a lot of time and effort to create. That doesn't mean it's okay not to bother! Developers must try to understand that gaming is a visual medium, and gamers spend a lot of money on high end gaming rigs for a reason. And that reason is not so they can look at lazy, phoned-in half efforts like this. It's free... now, but it wasn't before. The developer was charging $2 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 4 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. Even though this is currently free, it's not worth the effort of downloading.