Doodle Harmony Ghosts

Doodle Harmony Ghosts is, well, best described as your usual overly optimistic cash grab shovelware... you know the type, a minimum viable "game", made with as little effort as possible, with one single goal... to look enough like it really is a game so it can get a price tag on Steam, and thus, keys sold off in bulk to cheap bundle pushers. Even the name was designed specifically to try make this look like it's part of the Doodle God series of garbage mobile apps (themselves ripoffs of earlier games). There's not really any kind of game here worth mentioning. You're presented with a screen of blobs, a monochrome blob and a coloured silhouette of the same shape. Put your finger on your iPhone screen and drag each blob to the matching counterpart. Seriously, that's all there is to this. And they want money for it (of course... there's no way this was a sincere attempt to develop a real game in 2024... it's here for money). From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. The game features somewhat lazy, simplistic "retro" looking 2D graphics, of the type you normally expect to see in low effort Flash/browser games and mobile apps. Considering this is being evaluated as a PC game, having the graphics phoned in like this isn't going to result in a high quality, visually impressive game that PC gamers are used to seeing. The controls can't be customised because the game has such a dumbed down, simplified interface that it's just iPhone screen tapping stuff. The fact that the interface is this dumbed down might be seen as a problem in itself, however... this is a fairly shallow experience if you're the kind of gamer that likes to play games with deep, rich control schemes and interaction. You'll get none of that here. This looks and feels like a mobile app, but I wasn't able to find it on the app stores. Maybe it was removed, maybe it was rejected by Apple and Google (they do have more rigorous quality standards than Valve does for Steam, after all). Regardless, for all intents and purposes Doodle Harmony Ghosts might as well be a mobile app, it has the same limitations and dumbed down qualities. It's impossible to recommend such a game to PC gamers. We don't spend all this money building gaming rigs so we can pretend they're iPhones and play games that might as well be mobile apps. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 4 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 110,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 110,000+ games on Steam? Doodle Harmony Ghosts is relatively cheap at $2 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. Because this is the kind of game you can just play for free on mobile phones, it's impossible to recommend anyone should pay money for the same experience on Steam. This is also competing with over 14,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product. [quote][b][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/profile]Profile Features Limited![/url][/b] Valve have marked this game as "Profile Features Limited" at the time of this review. This is usually caused by poor sales figures and low community acceptance for the game (to date). Until this status changes, this game will not give you +1 to your Game Collector badge count, appear in profile achievements or any other Steam meta-accomplishments, nor can it be displayed in some profile showcases. If these factors are important to you, it may be worth holding off before buying this game.[/quote]

Cute and briefly entertaining but I can't really *recommend* it. The entire game is matching 100 doodles to their outlines. 15-20 minutes depending on how long it takes you to work out the interface details (scroll around to see the rest of them), feel free to repeat the same thing with randomized placement. Note "Profile Features Limited" if you were planning to get this farm a quick 100 achievements.

This is a cute game, i have played the other Doodle Harmony game and really enjoyed it so this was a no brainer. Doodle Harmony Ghosts only really differs in the kind of shapes you have to match. It is still over very quickly (it took me 11 minutes to complete it).

It is basically the same as the original [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/MouseWithBeer/recommended/2606760/]Doodle Harmony[/url] just instead of black blobs you are matching 100 black ghosts to their colorful outlines. It is pretty simple, but it works fine and it is enjoyable. It only takes 15 minutes to beat however, so I would definitely wait for a sale to pick it up to get a better deal for you money. Works without any issues on Linux with Proton (9.0-3).

Dark Mode can help avoid eye strain if the busy colors and movement give you a headache. Fun concept.

The ghost edition is just as good as Harmony, giving me exactly what I'm looking for. A relaxing, fast and cute game.

Somewhat relaxing.