Dab on 'em Haterz

I often wonder if I'm a bit out of touch with the "younger generation", now that I'm in my forties. This game has confirmed not one but two things for me: yes, I am out of touch with millennials; and no, this probably isn't a bad thing at all. Let me sum up the gameplay of this "game" for you. At the beginning of each level/"week", you choose three topics out of a possible five. It doesn't matter which, far as I can tell, but it's Game Over if you don't pick 'em quick enough (this game is certainly fast-paced, if nothing else)! Should you be fortunate enough to play on, you have to quickly read and respond to a bunch of "chat"-style statements in a rapidly scrolling column on the left-hand side of the screen, "liking" the positive comments and "dabbing" the negative ones. If you don't make enough correct choices, it's also Game Over. Now, I'm a fairly fast reader, and even I couldn't get past Week 3. Either I was slow on the uptake of the topic choosing, f*cked up the liking and dabbing process, or lost one of the infrequent "dabbing" contests against rival "dabbers" (a suddenly-appearing quick-time button-mashing competition, which I never came even remotely close to winning). Is this game fun? No. Is it at least fun-NY? Um...it's maybe worthy of a brief chuckle, and some of the chat comments at least come close to being keenly-observed "satire". But even these comments quickly become repetitive and overfamiliar, and a book is never good just because its cover is. Aesthetically, I appreciate what this game was trying to do, but when style wins this much over substance, I'm afraid that I just can't recommend it to anybody. Even people who think the word "dab" is cool or funny will be lucky to get more than fifteen minutes of entertainment out of this vacuous excuse for a "game". Verdict: 4.5/10. (PS If you enjoyed this review, feel free to check out my two Curator pages: http://store.steampowered.com/curator/9284586-ReviewsJustfortheHELLofit/ http://store.steampowered.com/curator/10868048-Truly-Horrible-Horror-Games/?appid=398210 Cheers!)

This game is a revolutionary piece of art. it helps you keep up with all the current culture and trends, and best of all you get to let all your stress out by dabbing on em' haterz as the game title says. I would strongly reccomend playing this game if you feel like you are falling behind on all the current memes or just if you want to have a great time

[b][i]Review copy provided by developer via Curator Connect[/i][/b] Memes are not a new concept in human culture, but the internet has turned them into a veritable force of nature. Where once an activity or a catchphrase took time to circulate through social groups and regions, now fidget spinners and dabbing can spread in moments across the globe. This also means that even the most banal, insignificant notions can become memes, and that’s essentially what Dab on ’em Haterz is built around. It’s a simulated war between you and online commenters to see who can dismiss the other harder, based solely on pithy replies. As a casual time-waster it’s certainly topical, but some unfortunate design decisions keep it from holding your attention for long. In your infinite Millennial wisdom you have decided to become a YouTube superstar. Every week you choose three topics from a list of five to upload videos on, sundry disciplines ranging from relationships and social networks to vaping and diss tracks. Once your videos are out in the wild the YouTube commenters will take the bait, and it’s up to you to respond. From a vast and swiftly-scrolling list you must pick comments to either like or dab, and the “correct” response will earn you some cash somehow. Liking or dabbing the wrong comments will lose you money, though, and dabbing too many will put you in a button-mashing dab war that can lose you a big chunk of change. Assuming you make enough scratch to pay for food and rent and whatever dumb thing happens during the week, you survive to upload again the following week. There’s not much more going on here than clicking comments but there are hints of strategy and depth. You can like as many good comments as you want without repercussion but dabbing too many bad ones hits you with a tough button-mashing sequence. You’ll want to avoid this at all costs, so seeking out good comments to like is a safer strategy. Some comments are shown in blue, and responding to those gets you a nice cash bonus if you like or dab appropriately. Beyond that, you really need to be reading and understanding comments to respond because some nice ones start with a friendly insult, and some bad ones are that annoying internet sarcastic where you can’t really tell how sincere it is. All of this is spoiled, however, by how the game is balanced. Time is your greatest enemy here, because you are on an absurdly short timer for everything. You have only three seconds to choose your three topics for the week, and your choices are rated on a percentage scale. If you don’t break 40% you lose a ton of money and skip the week. Assuming you do pick good ones, you get 35 seconds to like and dab as many comments as possible. It’s pretty hectic but from what I can tell, dabbing gets you $2, liking gets you $3, and blue comments get you $10. Food and rent together come to $110, so if you can’t get 30-40 comments right in 35 seconds you’re going to be losing money. It’s pretty unreasonable starting out, and the furthest I’ve gotten in about 20 minutes of attempts is week 4. That’s not terribly gratifying for a casual time-waster. Games without much depth need to offer a more entertaining experience, but Dab on ’em Haterz expects you to work far too hard for virtually no payoff. Unless you are absolutely flying through comments with keen insight you’re going to be hemorrhaging money right from the start. Nobody wants to die a slow death in any game, least of all one that’s supposed to be a fun little time-waster. Frustrating too are the harsh penalties for flubbing the upload topics or the dab war button-mashing, as they can straight-up end your run. And even if you soldier on, your reward is more of the same vicious memes and frantic clicking, with no upgrades or unlocks or anything to look forward to at all. I appreciate the charming pixel graphics and the surprisingly good chiptune soundtrack, just not the core gameplay and the balance decisions surrounding it. I suppose you could put in the time to get good at Dab on ’em Haterz to have longer runs, but I’ll never do it. Skill in this game is a matter of identifying good and bad comments on the spot, understanding the memes that comprise them, and reflexively crushing through the list. I’m willing to learn just about any skill for a game but meme scholarship is not one I really care to develop, considering how much I despise reading actual YouTube comments. In real life I don’t dab on haters, I avoid them, and I would suggest you do the same with this title. Did you enjoy this review? I certainly hope so, and I certainly hope you'll check out more of them at https://goldplatedgames.com/ or on my [url=http://store.steampowered.com/curator/11322459/]curation page[/url]!

While at first glance this might appear to be a Jake or Logan Paul simulator, "Dab on 'em Haterz is essentially a test of your reflexes and how quickly you process information. You need to make the right choices and make them quickly or the game is more or less over in a minute or two. In the short time I've played I already feel I've seen everything I'm going to see. Its only a couple of bucks though so I wasn't expecting much more. Only real criticisms would be to maybe slow it down a bit, though without the short times between decisions I see this being beaten very easily. The speed at which the game goes guarantees you wont be able to take everything in. Hell, if you take the time to read all the text on the first screen you already fail. In the second phase you have to have your eyes glued solely to the text on the left hand side and quickly identify what is a good comment and what is a bad comment (which you "DAB" on). Successfully allocating the comments as good or bad allows you to pay rent for one more week. I myself last 4 weeks before getting "Dabbed" on and having to "Bite it" I'd give it a 5 out of 10 for what it is. Mildly amusing for the (very) short time it lasts.

Summary for this game: No. The entire game is just cringe memes stacked on more cringe memes. The gameplay is also very barebones and pretty inconsistent when rewarding you for dabbing on hater comments or liking good comments.

No just NO!

Dab

Well you definitely get to dab on the haters. No complaints.

Забавно :)

Почуствуй себя автором, творцом... С легкостью отвечай всем "я художник - я так вижу" и иди по своей проторенной дорожке. Выбери 3 актуальные, по-твоему, мнению темы и наслаждайся активностью под твоим постом))) Не забывай лайкать понравившиеся комменты и дабать раздражающие... Сделаешь все правильно: + в карму и денег в карман, нет- потихоньку останешься без купюр, а игра закончится. Все просто и ясно как и сам геймплей. Отличная убивалка времени. Но стоит приготовиться к реалиям жизни и не думать, что негативный отзывы будут про плюшевых мишек и серебристых единорогов.... в них бывают очень жесткие моменты... в смысле - нецензурщина. Хороший симулятор работы блоггера. Кто-то может поиграть и передумать им становится, а кто-то наоборот с головой захочет окунуться во все это веселье))) Приятной игры.