[quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop][b]Warning: AI Slop[/b][/url]
This marketing material and voice "acting" for this game is partially or completely made with talentless, soulless AI generated slop.[/quote]
"CREAMARE - The Game" is a rather weak thematic ripoff of the game Beyond Blue, the key difference is the developers behind Beyond Blue were ethical and hired real voice actors (including Babylon 5's star, Mira Furlan). Here, it's disgusting AI slop used to replace the job of a voice actor. Cheap? Lazy? Or just wanted to offend everyone with AI slop? Maybe a combination of all three.
What do you do in the game? The story involves you exploring nine real Mediterranean underwater cultural sites. You must defeat a future monster by solving environmental challenges and puzzles related to the sites' history. This is implemented very badly.
And the problem is that this is less of a game and more of an effort to push a specific political agenda... and whether the cause is just or not, gaming is no place for politics.
Despite not being in Early Access this is rough and unpolished... it's unpleasant to play.
There's also the old adage that those who lack the budget and talent to make their own game assets usually lack the budget and talent to do the rest of the job of game development properly, too, and that's glaringly obvious here.
On pricing, this is "free" enough, at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good, and the cost of a game is more than just financial, your time is valuable too.
Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 5 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away.
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. There's no financial cost up-front, but you'd still be spending your time and a little hard drive space on a product that's far from the best. There's thousands of better alternatives on Steam.
If this is the kind of game you're really looking for, try Beyond Blue. That was made ethically, without the use of insulting AI slop.
