Cognizer is a mobile app that's been dumped on Steam as a cash grab by lazy mobile devs, possibly by mistake. The game doesn't appear on the mobile app stores, possibly because it was rejected due to poor quality concerns.
This is a simple tile matching game where you tap on your phone screen to match tiles based on their criteria, colour and the shape of the symbol in each tile. Some tiles must be tapped on to complete the level, but others kill you if you tap on them, based on the index presented at the bottom of the screen.
While this is only available on PC and not app stores, it's obvious this was intended as a mobile app, the game tutorial even instructs you to "touch" your screen.
I didn't pay thousands of dollars on building my gaming rig so I could pretend it's an iPhone. If you really want to play this kind of game, you can do so for free in a web browser or on mobile phones. There's nothing of interest here for serious, enthusiast PC gamers.
This game isn't even free, the mobile devs here have their hands out for a ridiculous $25 USD in donations, this is basically digital pandhandling. The online equivalent of the homeless guys that splash dirty water on your windscreen at the traffic lights with their hand out for a tip.
[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 mobile developer admits this is a mobile app that's been dumped on Steam, which is not a mobile app store. This is somewhat self incriminating, but I've already pointed out this is a trash mobile app that doesn't belong on Steam, and only exists as a cash grab.
The developer then chooses to lie about the game being digital panhandling, but it absolutely is a cash grab, the developer wants [b]your money[/b]. Here's the link to where the developer expects you to throw money at him because he polluted Steam with valueless mobile app garbage:
https://store.steampowered.com/dlc/711690/Cognizer/
I guess rule #1 about breaching Valve guidelines to lie to gamers about your cash grabs is: Don't tell lies if they're so easily disproven with readily available evidence.
It's unclear why the developer chose to lie about his obvious, greedy panhandling. I wonder if that's what he writes on the dirty bit of cardboard he waves at gamers at street corners, trying to get their money. Sure, you don't [i]have[/i] to put money in the developers begging jar, but my point remains... this is not freeware, it's absolutely donationware, [b]because the developer expects to be paid for this, it's not free.[/b]
The developer then lies about being sorry for causing inconvenience... that's complete rubbish. If the developer didn't intend to pollute Steam and make gaming worse for everyone by dumping garbage mobile apps on Steam for the purpose of panhandling and begging for money, this mobile app wouldn't have an eyewatering $25 USD worth of empty donations attached to it so prominently.
In fact, if the developer didn't intend to inconvenience gamers, he wouldn't have dumped a trash mobile app on Steam at all.
This is a classic case of a pandhandling mobile dev putting his own desire for cash far above the needs of gamers and the gaming industry.
Nothing in the developers pointless breach of Valve guidelines changes any of the objective facts of my review. My review stands unaltered. I cannot recommend this mobile app to anyone.
