Elemental Mage Defense

"Elemental Mage Defense" is a laughably badly made Galaga/Space Invaders style 2.5D arcade shoot 'em up... you shoot bugs/monsters while moving left and right at the bottom of your screen. Yes, that's all there is to this. You do get a couple of different firing modes and game modes (but these are pretty much all the same). This feels a lot like someone's weekend Unity project. They got the project to build and immediately burned $100 on Steam Direct. Where it failed, disastrously. This comes across as something unambitious and "simple" in terms of implementation and technical quality and depth, more like a game dev tutorial or an experiment. It’s a classic case of a developer prioritizing the low effort needed to get a game listed on Steam over the actual delivery of a technically sound or compelling product. Whatever is needed to hammer out something "good" enough for Steam Direct self-publishing. This game looks a lot better visually than the actual gameplay. It could be the developer purchased high-end assets (no proof of that), or somehow managed to create okayish-looking assets while delivering a mediocre game, in this case it could be either... but there's no hard proof this is an asset flip. But as always, ethics of asset flipping aside (whether this is one or not), what matters is the quality of the game, and this has all the same low qualities that we expect from asset flip shovelware. 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. Even as a free game, this couldn't find an audience. With a peak of [b]only 2 players[/b], it's clear the Steam community took one look and walked away. They literally couldn't pay people to spend time playing this. Given that this free game won't increase your game collector count, is it worth your time to add it to your library? Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough. [b]Note: Joke reviews[/b] As usual, with some of the worst games on Steam, all the comedians come out of the woodwork. The vast majority of the reviews for this game are joke reviews, mocking the game for just how bad it is. The comedians give us the usual "this game cured my cancer, saved my marriage, changed my life" story... sarcastic, but not useful if you want to know if the game is worth it. Because most of the reviews are humorous but also insincere and not reflective of the actual quality of the product, the positive review score for this game should be taken with a grain of salt.

Best game of 2023 hands down

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This game reminds me of an old-school arcade game. It's an excellent game to play when just wanting to chill and relax ... that is, until the demon frogs come sprinting at you or if you are in "wall of death"! Then I become insanely sweaty as I spaz out, trying to defeat the enemy. It's a lot of fun. I can't wait to see what's next.

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Started with easy mode and it was pretty solid. Going down the list of different game types is what made it fun! Would like more direction other than how to kill. Didnt know the goal was 100 kills until i reached it then made it to stage 5 and was lost on the end goal. A set goal would bring me back.

its a fun little game to kill time, easy to get the hands on, you have planty of games modes to chose if you get bored so i gonna keep playing it. would recomend if you are bored. its only needs an option for sound.