Beautycopter

An unusual but pleasant game.

"Beautycopter" is a garbage surreal "more art than game" experience where you fly a little helicopter around a "spa resort" that's very cold, collecting hats and cake... I appreciate sometimes artists need to be artists but they should present their garbage in at least a partially professional way. This just lookes like someone had a stroke while browsing an asset store. So, it's hard to describe this as a game, the focus of the product is more like that of a mildly interactive "art" experience, there's only minor, shallow and uninteresting gameplay elements. The crux of this is to push a mediocre "experience" at gamers of the kind you would normally see in a public art gallery on amateur week. It's true that games can be art, of course... art is where the pinnacle of creativity, craftsmanship and expertise come together to form something greater than the sum of its parts. This product does a poor job of all of those three. The Mona Lisa would not be hanging in the Louvre if she was drawn as a stick figure in crayon on a napkin. The graphics here are particularly awful, a mismatched mess of different bespoke and stock assets assembled badly, so bad that it actually stands out as one of the worst looking games on Steam. Quite an accomplishment. 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. 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 onto pricing and value. There's no initial download price, but the developer was charging $2 USD for this. Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It seems like a nice gesture for the game to have no up-front cost anymore, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product. This is also a bit of a slap in the face to anyone who showed enough questionable judgement to pay money for this... nobody got refunded. A peak of [b]5 concurrent players[/b] (according to SteamDB) for a "free" game is a disastrous public reception. Out of 130 million potential players here on Steam, almost nobody was interested. Even though this is "free". That level of rejection speaks a lot for the quality of the game. Given that this free game won't increase your game collector count, is it worth your time to add it to your library? Nope. This isn't worth downloading. I didn't pay money, but I still feel ripped off.

WTF?? XD

Cheaper than drugs for the same experience.

Good game, liked it

this is a great, short, chill, hilarious experience. I love how it has the aesthetics of a CD-ROM game of the early 00s while being a 3D exploration game. I love it's writing and surreal atmosphere and humor. It's the kind of nonsense that clicks and makes you feel all fuzzy and creative after playing. It's a riot. just play it, it's gonna make your day better. Can't wait to play more Graceless Games :<>

game good

Interesting short game. Pretty clear goals and ways to achieve them, in a strange icy resort. Most of the artwork was just black on my Bazzite desktop when playing via Steam - Heroic launcher w/ Itch version was much better. I didn't look at trailers and such (prefer no spoilers), so it took me a while to realise. Don't do that!