Dummy Falls

"Dummy Falls" is a badly made 3D low poly/minimalist platformer that was designed more to abuse the Steam Marketplace through valueless item drops than it was to be a serious game for gamers. The woeful implementation quality of the game is testament to that theory. This features fairly low quality low poly 3D visuals which will deter a lot of gamers, understandably. Gaming is a visual medium, and it's clear the developers behind this didn't understand that. It's free... now, but it wasn't before. The developer was charging $2.95 USD for this. Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It's a nice gesture for the game to be given away for free, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product. In this case it seems the developer chose the free option hoping that they'd make more money from the Steam Community Marketplace, but this does nothing to further the interests of gamers. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 9 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. While there's a few positive reviews for the the game, these reviews are basically sarcastic/joke reviews, and if you filtered out the joke reviews the game would have a markedly different review score. Well, my advice as always is to read the negative reviews, not the positive ones, because the negative reviews are always more honest and frank. 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. While this didn't cost me any money up front, I still feel ripped off.