"El Hincha - El Videojuego" is a weird abandoned Early Access consolesque platformer from Portugal where the goal is a "quest to go to the world through many places" (that's seriously what the developer said). Which involves a variety of poor quality platforming styles from snowboarding, endless running and basic stock standard console platforming.
The art style is probably the "best" part of this game, and it's awful. The developers just ripped off the art style of Funko pops. I'm hoping at least that it's original art and assets and not flipped ones.
The developers haven't touched this for 7 years. It's completely abandoned. This unfinished game is just polluting Steam and making it harder for gamers to find genuinely, completely made games.
There's no English translation for the game, but that's okay. The language of bad games is universal.
On the important subject of visuals, this features fairly low quality stylised/cartoony low poly 3D graphics. It comes across as the kind of thing you see on mobile phones and Nintendo games, which will deter a lot of PC gamers, understandably. Gaming is a visual medium, and to be considered one of the best games on Steam, the graphics have to be some of the best on Steam. That's not happening here.
This game is fairly dated at 7 years old... and even back then it looked old and busted compared to contemporary, professionally made 3D games of the same period. It looked bad then, it looks worse now.
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.
A peak of [b]8 concurrent players[/b] (according to SteamDB) for a "free" game is a disastrous public reception. Out of 130 million potential players here on Steam, almost nobody was interested. Even though this is "free". That level of rejection speaks a lot for the quality of the game.
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? What's the verdict?
This is a hard pass. There's no immediate financial commitment, but there are thousands of more compelling games on the platform that will give you a lot more enjoyment for your time. It's also incomplete, unpolished and abandoned.
