Dune Mechanic : Survive The Steampunk Era Prologue

As a game, tedious. As a technological prototype, okay I guess. The tutorial is too long and tedious. Follow-text-instructions-exactly. Walk back and forth, picking things up, and interacting. But everything only once, so you are immediately overwhelmed with way too much information. "Walk into a cave and mine iron and copper" - but then it has to be a specific cave anyway. Back to exactly following instructions and walking towards highlighted objects. Way too many steps to the goal of constructing something. It needs more overview, focus, and sectioning as a tutorial and as a game mechanic. The building-a-whole-from-individual/many-parts both in constructing an apparatus as well as creating objects seem to be a main focus of the game. It had an interesting implementation in how you interact and place the pieces. I think it results in too much specific required knowledge and tedious actions though.

"Dune Mechanic : Survive The Steampunk Era Prologue" is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "Dune Mechanic: Survive the Steampunk Era". Dune Mechanic: Survive the Steampunk Era is not even released (seems a strange thing to do to advertise something people can't buy). If the product ever does get made, the first thing you'll notice apart from the poor quality which seems to be the hallmark of this developer (if unsure take a look at Winexy for an example... or better yet, don't) is that they seem to think Steampunk is real and a true historical "era" in human history; it is not. Thie rather perculiar incorrectness aside, I'm not sure that it's a game you'd ever want to buy. But this isn't completely relevant because this is not Dune Mechanic: Survive the Steampunk Era, it's just an advertisment for it, so it's not correct to try to review that completely distinct product. We must instead review this for what it is... an advertisement. If you enjoy advertisements, you can consume them for free on the web or on Youtube without needing to add them to your game library, download them, and then launch the advertising. It's impossible in a general sense to recommend people should do that over playing real, full games on Steam, and that applies here with "Dune Mechanic : Survive The Steampunk Era Prologue" too. This is only free in the same way that adverts on Youtube and banner ads in your browser are. This is a game demo that's been dumped on Steam to advertise another Steam store page in the hopes of raking in some cash. Just because advertisements are free, doesn't mean they're worth your time. It's important to understand there's a formal process to create a demo/page for a game which hasn't been followed here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos While it might seem like an inocuous mistake, publishing demos and advertisements as if they are full games is misleading and in some ways harmful. This advertisement is taking up marketing space and visibility that would be better made available to a developer that's done the right thing and created a full game. Instead, that visibility is given over to a demo/advert that's been published incorrectly and is polluting the marketplace. It's unclear if this mistake was made through incompetence or a deliberate intent to mislead gamers. Often developers may choose to incorrectly publish demo/advertisements as separate games as a cheap way to bypass paying Valve for marketing presence on the Steam front page, which may seem clever to them, but it's harmful behaviour and it's not good for gamers. Advertisements and incorrectly published demos don't add +1 to your game collector count, they aren't full games. It's impossible for me to recommend this incorrectly published advertising spam to gamers, you deserve better than adverts.