AXIOM SOCCER

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My first impression is good. It's a unique and fun game. I guess there's no tutorial though, so it may be a good idea to check the controls first. Also, it works fine on a GTX 750 Ti, unlike what the minimum system requirements suggest, it doesn't need much space, and it doesn't cost anything.

"AXIOM SOCCER" is Rocket League from AliExpress... another failed experiment to throw something at the PvP wall on Steam and see if it'll go viral or not. Developers with dollar signs in their eyes and gambling problems in their hearts love PvP live service so much... Gamers pay YOU to be content for other gamers in your game! What's not to love? Oh yeah, the fail rate of these "PvP is content" games and the fact gamers hate this crap. What do you do in the game? Well, it's Rocket League like I said, but you get bizarre hovertank drone things with guns. Shoot the ball, get the score... At least Rocket League made a little sense before Epic bought it and murdered it with Sweeney and his lovers hands (everything he touches is screwed). Here, well, it's harder to sell the concept of flying drone tank gun soccer to people, you know. Couple that with poor visuals, an incomplete and abandoned game, and a toxic monetisation system waiting in the wings, and we can see why this never caught on. The developers abandoned this 5 years 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 aren't great, kinda low poly stuff you might see on mobile phones last decade. That's understandably a turn off for a lot of gamers, and it's a big contributor to the failure of the game to attract gamers despite having no up-front cost. Gaming is a primarily visual medium, and if developers want to succeed, they must understand that it's not an area for compromise. You deserve better than compromises. You're forced to sign a highly questionable yet legally unenforceable End User License Agreement... for such a relatively low effort, low quality product, this comes across more as a delusion of grandeur than anything else. This agreement includes questionable requirements that may attempt to revoke consumer law protections that gamers expect to have, which is also highly problematic. Developers must learn they are here to serve gamers, not control them. I had my cat walk over the keyboard while the EULA was displaying, which fixed that problem for me. This game is fairly dated at 6 years old... and even back then it looked old and busted compared to contemporary, professionally made 3D games of the same period. It looked bad then, it looks worse now. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. So this is "free", but it's abandoned. Worse, it was never intended to be free. The developer intended to charge for this if it ever left Early Access, through MTX and paywalled content (ugh)... but the developer just couldn't be bothered. Making this abandoned pollution that gamers need to filter through when searching for products made by more ethical developers who fulfill their promise to deliver on their Early Access commitment instead of breaking that promise. 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.