Catch Me If You Can

"Catch Me If You Can" is a badly made, non-free PvP arena "tag" game with some weird, mismatched assets, rather poor gameplay, and a weird but actually existing server population (makes no sense, but some people have no taste in games I guess). What do you do in the game? Grind so you can make Steam Marketplace items and sell them so the developer gets a cut... yeah, this is some nasty grift monetisation. It's not okay. In terms of visuals, this features fairly low quality low poly 3D visuals which will deter a lot of gamers, understandably. Gaming is a visual medium, and while some developers struggle with creating high quality visuals, failing to do so is a disservice to gamers. It's very difficult to recommend bad looking games. This is only superficially free. The real purpose for this game is for the developer to farm and exploit Steam Inventory items that drop through the game. They can then sell these items in bulk on the Steam Community Marketplace. This kind of Steam abuse, combined with a minimum-viable-product non-game, does no service to gamers whatsoever. This is pollution... it's harmful to everyone. It hurts genuine indie devs, who have to compete with this pollution to get visibility for their sincerely made games. It makes indie devs look bad. It makes it harder for gamers to find those genuinely made games. The developer didn't stop there with monetisation, they also tried charging $5 for this and there was also a rather insulting $10 panhandling donation DLC... you know, like the homeless guys at the traffic lights that splash dirty water on your windshield. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at just a dozen or so concurrent players, and now there's basically nobody playing it. Even though it's free. This is a dismal public reception, but it's easy to see why gamers rejected it. 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? Nope. This isn't worth downloading. While this didn't cost me any money up front, I still feel ripped off.