[quote][b]Warning: Microtransaction Infested Game[/b]
This mobile app is infested with a mobile app like cash shop for unlocking in-game currency and features. Whether these are purely cosmetic or they alter your gaming experience significantly, this gamer gouging practice is unethical and insulting to gamers, especially when applied to such a low quality shovelware mobile app. Gamers should be cautious and consider avoiding this mobile app for that reason alone.[/quote]
Bichito Clicker is a "free" mobile app that's been dumped on Steam as a paid product, as if it was a real PC game (it's not)... it's a cash grab from greedy mobile devs. This mobile app is a cash shop with an extremely lazy smartphone tapping "minigame" wrapped around it... and it's bad in pretty much every way a video game could be bad. It's like they had a bingo card of things never to do, and they won every round.
Bichito Clicker isn't really a proper game, it's just a lazy 2D browser/Flash-tier "number incrementer" game where the object of the game is to increase the in-game currency by tapping on your phone screen to kill "bosses", and sometimes buying things that increase the rate at which your currency/score goes up. It's an incredibly shallow game loop, to the point you might as well just run a program that does "i=i+1; print i" and watch the numbers go up automatically, and just watch it. You'd get the exact same outcome. If this sounds completely mindless, you're not wrong.
From a technical perspective, as a mobile app, this doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.
The artwork here is terrible, it's all just amateurish "My First Wacom Tablet" style drawings. 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 extremely low, enough on its own to deter gamers.
There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision.
The mobile app only displays in mobile phone style ultra-pillarboxed aspect ratio. This is just one of many indications this was developed to be a mobile app and not a serious PC game. It's not acceptable for developers to dump garbage like this on Steam when it's not even formatted or designed to run properly on modern PC gaming displays, to the point that this could be considered insulting.
Bichito Clicker didn't appeal much to the people who own a copy of the mobile app. Achievements show us the mobile app didn't capture any interest from gamers. The most commonly and easily attained achievement is "Lucky Mimic Eliminated", for, uh, defeating the enemy called the "Lucky Mimic" obviously, trivial to get, but less than 12 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling the mobile app. Hardly a success story, even the people who own this mobile app weren't interested in it.
The poor quality of this mobile app is also reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 3 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality mobile app is to be expected.
You're forced to sign a highly questionable yet legally unenforceable End User License Agreement... for such a garbage mobile app this is a delusion of grandeur. 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.
So, should you buy thius garbage this mobile app? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam?
Once more we see greedy mobile devs trying to scam PC gamers. On Steam, this is $5 USD, on app stores, it's free. Mobile devs must learn PC gamers are not here to be gouged, and can't be expected to pay a premium for a free mobile app just because it's been lazily dumped on Steam. This is unacceptable disrespect for PC gamers. Because this can be played free elsewhere, and because of the other defects, it's impossible to recommend.
FIVE BUCKS for this garbage "free" mobile app. Just who do they think we are?
[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]
[quote][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/reviews]Developer Response![/url][/quote]The developer has weighed in to inform everyone they didn't read the [url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/reviews]Developer Usage Rules[/url] for Steam "partners", or they deliberately ignored the part where Valve says:
[quote]Though it may be tempting, not every review needs to be responded to. A developer response will frequently draw more attention than the original statement, potentially turning a small issue into a much larger community discussion. It's also not a good idea to use this feature to refute customer opinions. Your direct attention can be seen as validation or a defensive attempt to silence your customers.[/quote]
The developer acknowledges that this is a mobile app, but seems upset about me pointing that out to gamers, while also having no conscience about what they've done wrong. This is useful for gamers to know, which is why I include this important information in my reviews whenever I catch a developer dumping mobile trash on Steam. But we must ask why the developer is so upset about being confronted with facts they themselves confirm. Steam is not a garbage dump for failed mobile app scams.
Here's a confronting admission... the developer admits to predatory pricing for gamers with bloated, pointless MTX and clickbait marketing... now, I'm an advocate for PC gamers and I've already explained why the developers disgusting and insulting pricing isn't acceptable on PC. But the admission they also try to screw over mobile gamers just cements the position here, you can see who we're dealing with. When confronted with this gamer hostile attitude from mobile app developers like this, it's absolutely clear why nobody should waste their money on their shoddy mobile apps on PC.
And shoddy this is... the developer's excuse for the godawfully bad "art" in this disaster of a mobile app is "We made it look bad on purpose". This has got to be one of the flimiest and most intellectually dishonest and bankrupt excuses known to man.
We know that this was a massive failure... Steam achievements don't lie, only 12% of gamers who own this played it for any length of time, the rest quickly discarded it. Instead of owning his failure and the harm he's doing to gamers with his toxic mobile app monetisation, he's doubled down on it. This explains the disgusting, toxic and anti-gamer aspects of this garbage mobile app, but it does not excuse them.
Nothing in the developers pointless breach of Valve guidelines changes any of the objective facts of my review. I cannot recommend this game to anyone.
