Balancelot

If you're the sort of person that finds joy in... well, anything, I suggest you play this to get a glimpse of the other side.

Balancelot is one of those awful mobile-esque games where the game content itself is irrelevant, because the game revolves completely around wrestling with a deliberately awkward control scheme. These games never go well and Balancelot is no exception to the rule here.. it's not fun to play, on purpose, and gamers generally shun this kind of game because of that. They certainly succeeded in making an un-fun game. The theme is medieval unicycles, which is also a terrible idea, so at least there's symmetry with the overall game concept. It doesn't actually model the physics of unicycles, though, you just move left or right and this of course makes you topple, so you use the arrow keys to adjust your balance, and that, right there, is 100% of the game. Wake up, I know it's boring, but I'm serious, because they actually want to get paid for dumping this on Steam. It's a Nintendo Switch game, of course, although I think this would have gone on better on the app stores... the gameplay itself is shallower than Angry Birds, so you can see why as a PC gamer this kind of thing just comes across as valueless. Heck, this could even be a browser/flash game... it has all the same low quality. On the upside, the game does feature customisable controls and resolution, so at least some of the basic, minimum requirements have been met. Unfortunately there's a number of other technical defects and shortcomings which contribute to the game being difficult to recommend to gamers. The game is comprised of somewhat mediocre hand drawn 2D illustrations instead of professional looking 3D game assets. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget to arrange someone who can create graphical assets properly, or lack of talent. Regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is very low, beneath what PC gamers have come to expect in this era of cutting edge photorealistic 3D graphics. At least it's not pixel "art", but if you're looking for contemporary, immersive visuals, this game is a fail. While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the lacklustre 2D visuals. Because this is designed for handheld/portable gaming appliances, it carries a number of deliberate design deficiencies. Compromises were made to cater to the low power handheld gaming appliances that the game was designed for. These are unfortunate compromises and limitations that PC gamers shouldn't be forced to accept, but it's evident that PC was a second thought for the mobile game developers. The game is deficient as a result of these choices, and would have been so much better without the handicaps that designing games for low power handhelds forces upon a game. While this might run well on a Steam Deck, we must remember the vast majority of gamers here are gaming on PC. This looks and feels like a mobile app, but I wasn't able to find it on the app stores. Maybe it was removed, maybe it was rejected by Apple and Google (they do have more rigorous quality standards than Valve does for Steam, after all). Regardless, for all intents and purposes Balancelot might as well be a mobile app, it has the same limitations and dumbed down qualities. It's impossible to recommend such a game to PC gamers. We don't spend all this money building gaming rigs so we can pretend they're iPhones and play games that might as well be mobile apps. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. Balancelot didn't appeal much to the people who own a copy of the game, either. It has achievements, and they show us a very clear picture that the game didn't really capture any interest from gamers. The most commonly and easily attained achievement is for reaching a new "Personal Best Time", trivial to get, but less than 17 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling the game. Hardly a success story, gamers just weren't all that interested in the game. The game never really caught on with the millions of gamers on Steam, with a very low peak player count close to launch, and then just a handful of players launching this game every couple of days. This is undoubtedly caused by factors such as those raised in this review. It's always helpful with buying decisions to consider how popular and successful the product is, and unfortunately while this did accumulate a few participation trophy reviews, overall, people just aren't using it. So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam? Balancelot has the far too high price of around $8 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam. Because this is the kind of game you can just play for free on mobile phones, it's impossible to recommend anyone should pay money for the same experience on Steam. For comparison, the $8 asking price for this game could get you games like "Dishonored", "Don't Starve Together" or "Euro Truck Simulator 2". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this. [quote][b][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/profile]Profile Features Limited![/url][/b] Valve have marked this game as "Profile Features Limited" at the time of this review. This is usually caused by poor sales figures and low community acceptance for the game (to date). Until this status changes, this game will not give you +1 to your Game Collector badge count, appear in profile achievements or any other Steam meta-accomplishments, nor can it be displayed in some profile showcases. If these factors are important to you, it may be worth holding off before buying this game.[/quote]

Pain Peko.

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Забавная игра, но терпения не хватило ее пройти=) Понравилась рисовка, и геймплей мне такой нравится, люблю игры типо трайлс и гравитидефайнд. Не понравилось расположение чекпойнтов слишком люто это все. Музыка тоже на мозги капает. Еще чисто личная придирка, это то что нет нормальной вертикальной обложке для библиотеки, я конечно сам ее сделал, но осадочек остался. Рекомендую всем любителям хардкора)

I prefer my pain with strategy games and not janky controls. This is an exercise in frustration.

Quick Score: 4/5 Notes: Pretty fun awkward control sim platformer. The mechanics aren't that difficult but the character control is just strange enough to make it a feel like a fresh experience. There is definitely some jank with the physics and that makes the game slightly more frustrating than it otherwise should be at times, but overall it's a fun playthrough. My biggest complaint is that the final level when going for the deathless achievement is pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Muy bueno. Divertido y colorido juego de físicas en monociclo, con una lanza que está más que nada para estorbar.

Really enjoyable awkward control sim. Controls feels great and the levels are varied and well made. My only real complaint is the difficulty curve is all over the place, but the game is a solid recommend regardless! Check out https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41559946 for more recommendations!

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