Crimson Light

RPG Maker strikes again! "Crimson Light" is one of hundreds of low effort retro-pixel RPG Maker asset/construction kit flips spamming the Steam catalog, made with the RPG Maker video game construction kit... in their own words, "Our easy to use tools are simple enough for a child." Like all RPG Maker "games", this is essentially a bunch of low quality/canned assets from RPG Maker coupled with a cringeworthy high school anime club fan fiction. Notably, the "developer" couldn't work out how to use RPG Maker to make a JRPG (the only thing it can do, and it's terrible at it). Instead, we have a very badly slapped together "stealth adventure" with a horror theme, and the horror is that this is yet another RPG Maker asset flip all about the developers imaginary anime girlfriend. As always, the high school anime club dropout fan-fiction writing that goes along with the asset flipped RPG Maker assets is pure cringe. As with all RPG Maker games, the poor quality engine displays badly in fullscreen and doesn't have full HD support or any graphics tweaking options, making this unacceptable for any dedicated modern PC gamer. The point can be made that the intention of RPG Maker is to make demos and small games to pass around friends, and shouldn't be used for "professional" game development. Like most RPG Maker shovelware and asset flips, the game features extremely low quality copy + pasted 2D retro pixel art, looks awful, and has even worse gameplay. RPG Maker is an absolutely terrible construction kit, and never results in games of any reasonable quality or value to gamers. This game is fairly dated at 7 years old... and even back then it looked old and busted compared to contemporary, professionally made 3D games of the same period. It looked bad then, it looks worse now. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. This is "free" enough (not every "free" game in the "free" section is truly free, there's usually some hidden price tag), 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. In terms of public reception, this failed. There's well over 130 million gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at less than 100 concurrent players, they couldn't even break three figures, 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? What's the verdict? This is a hard pass. There's no immediate financial commitment, but there are thousands of more compelling games on the platform that will give you a lot more enjoyment for your time.

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Crimson Light — атмосферная хоррор-приключенческая игра с глубоким сюжетом и напряженным геймплеем. Погружение в мрачный мир разрушенного будущего, где каждый шаг — шаг к выживанию. Графика впечатляет: детализированные локации и динамичное освещение усиливают напряжение. Система управления плавная, но требует внимания к деталям. Звуковая сцена — отдельный плюс: звуки шагов, шепота и тревожных сигналов создают ощущение постоянной угрозы. Сюжет заставляет задуматься о последствиях технологического прогресса. Однако сложности в управлении и иногда нечеткие механики могут оттолкнуть новичков. Для ценителей жанра — отличный выбор.

Damn, better than expected.

Güzel bir oyun değil. Oyunun çok eksiği var. Etkileşimler çok kısıtlı. Neyin ne olduğunu farkedene kadar "game over" ile karşılaşmaktan kaçınılmıyor. Oyunu devamlı olarak kaydetmezseniz öldükten veya yanlışıkla oyundan çıkarsanaz diyalogları uzun uzun tekrar geçmeniz gerekiyor.

is good