Cheftastic!: Buffet Blast

Legalzinho, mas joguinho de celular no pc não é pra mim hehe

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"Cheftastic!: Buffet Blast" is what looks like a console game in the wrong place. It's a top down console shooter that I thought was a student project until I saw this used to have a price tag. I'm guessing it didn't pan out because there's no price now, but that still doesn't mean there's value for money here. What do you do in the game? It's some middle-of-the-road console game top down shooting that doesn't do much that games like Contra did decades ago. You're a chef and you shoot a bunch of mutant vegetables or something. It's like all the good ideas for video games were taken and this is all that was left. This looks a lot like it was designed for consoles, but released on Steam instead by mistake. While this is on PC, it has all the hallmarks and deficiencies of a console game, from the clunkier than needed control scheme to the less than cutting edge graphics. There's 10's of thousands of PC games on Steam, and PC gamers deserve only the best. This might not appeal to many gamers due to the lack of PC-centric design. It's unclear why this never made it to the video game console appliances it seems to have been designed for. I'm not sure if this is an asset flip, but it's one of those cases where the assets just look much better than the rest of the quality of the game... a glaring inconsistency. There's no evidence, but as always, the biggest problem with asset flips besides the plagiarism is the deplorably low quality of the other aspects of the game, and even if the game assets are genuinely created for the game, the quality of the rest of the game is indistinguishable from that of asset flips. This is far from the worst game I've seen on Steam but the game is built on an obsolete format (we have 3D graphics now, top down shooting is over) for a platform that PC isn't, and the gameplay is repetitive after 5 minutes. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. There's no initial download price, but the developer was charging $11 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. In terms of public reception, this failed. There's over 130 million unique gamers visiting Steam every month. SteamDB showed the game peaked at [b]only 9 concurrent players[/b]... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. It's important to note that, despite this being such a low quality product, there's a number of positive reviews that all appeared immediately after the game launched, from suspiciously inactive Steam accounts that have reviewed almost no other games apart from this. Take the review score of this game with a grain of salt. 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? What's the verdict? This one scores a "nope". While it won't necessarily cost you money, the time and hard drive space it requires could be better invested in one of the many higher-quality alternatives on Steam.