CALAMITY CREATURES

[h1]荒削り[/h1] コンセプトは面白いが、細部が欠けてる まだ賛否が分かれるクオリティ（v1.06e） 今後の発展に期待したい [h2]チュートリアルが説明不足[/h2] チャプター１のクリア条件が分からなかった 見当たる全てのオブジェクトにインタラクトしたが、何も起きなかった [h2]慣性の付き方が変[/h2] 自キャラの移動による慣性が横方向のみで、斜め方向に対応していない 横移動時の感覚で高い所へジャンプしようとすると落ちやすい [h2]一部の説明に誤り[/h2] ＲＢボタンがロープ掴まりに設定されていると説明されたが、ＲＡ＋ＲＢでないと反応しなかった コントローラーによる差の可能性もある

"CALAMITY CREATURES" is one of literally thousands of retro 2D platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere... and I'm not kidding. Searching for "platformers" on the Steam store page yields over 17,000 results! Is this one of the best of those? Absolutely not. This platformer-esque game has you control a little anime girl with Inspector Gadget prosthetic hands. You're under attack by AT-AT's from Star Wars (Disney is gonna sue someone) and you have to climb up the legs and dismantle parts of the AT-AT as you climb. It's a weak premise implemented badly, so the developer abandoned it after gamers showed no interest. In the modern era of high quality bleeding edge PC gaming, these kinds of flat, lazy, lackluster platformers just don't cut it. Platforming is a dead genre for a reason. Even though this is "free", it failed to attract any interest for gamers here on Steam Direct for obvious reasons. The developers gave up on this 2 years and 3 months ago. It's destined to remain unfinished. This junkware is just polluting Steam and making it difficult for gamers to fully finished, completed games. That's not good for gamers. On the topic of visuals, the weak looking 2D retro assets seem like they'd be more at home in a browser game or a mobile app. 3D graphics accelerators hit the mainstream of PC gaming in the mid 1990's with cards like the ATI Rage and Voodoo3D, there's no excuse for such poor 2D graphics in 2026. That alone is enough to disqualify this for recommendation. Insultingly, the developer insists that you should play this with a console peasant children's toy gamepad instead of KB+M. Developers should try to be aware which platform they're designing games for. It's the responsibility of the developer to ensure the game runs well on the platform they're selling it on, with the primary peripherals that PC gamers use. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. Most "free" games on Steam aren't really free. There's usually some kind of monetisation, from nasty mobile app cash shops, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, to any other number of shady pricing schemes that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming industry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable, or something you might want to spend your time on. Even as a free game, this couldn't find an audience. With a peak of [b]only 13 players[/b], it's clear the Steam community took one look and walked away. They literally couldn't pay people to spend time playing this. 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.