Cult, Chapter One

[quote][b][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_flip]Warning: Asset Flip![/url][/b] "Cult, Chapter One" is one of literally thousands of creatively bankrupt asset flips infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere.[/quote] This is one of literally thousands of first person horror adventure games made out of stock Unity Asset Store assets and dumped quickly onto Steam, although I don't think this one is necessarily malicious, it's also not a complete game, just an advertisement for one. And a badly assembled collection of Unity assets it is, too. This buggy, janky collection of other people's assets has you running around asset flipped environments avoiding cultists/monsters/whatever assets the developer could afford, finding batteries for your flashlight... yeah, these games all seem the same because they're made of the same assets and the same basic Unity horror adventure game blueprints. So, "Cult, Chapter One" is partially or completely made up of stock assets, "borrowed" from asset stores and free asset websites. Little, if anything in this game is the creation of the "developer". While there's no up front price for this asset flip, the other problem with asset flips is that when developers aren't capable of doing their job and creating high quality assets, it's also true they can't do any of the rest of the job of a game developer either. That's definitely true for "Cult, Chapter One", and this kind of asset flipping never results in games that have quality or value for PC gamers. The game is quite short, and can be run through in just a few minutes or so. As the store page suggests this is just a prologue/advertisement for what was intended to be a full game that the developer couldn't work out how to make. Maybe they ran out of store credit on the Unity Asset Store? The lack of content here makes it hard to suggest it's worth spending the time to add to your library and download. 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 over 130 million unique gamers visiting Steam every month. SteamDB showed the game peaked at [b]only 7 concurrent players[/b]... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Given that this free title won't increase your game collector count, is it worth your time to add it to your library? This is a "nope". This is an asset flip and it's more like an advertisement for a full game than a full game itself. A waste of time.