Explaining every string

Честно - Может в игре и неплохой геймплей, но через ужасный визуал и никакой сауд к нему не пробиться. А так игра просто шик! Если выключить звук и закрыть глаза, так вообще идеально)

"Explaining every string" is described by the developer as the kind of game they wanted to make when they were 8 years old. Presumably when they turned 9, they published it, because this looks and plays like garbage. Not to disparage kids from wanting to learn game development, but it's a serious endeavour. You can't just get the thing to build and run and then immediately grab dad's credit card and dump it on Steam Direct. This 2D pixel/minimalist train wreck comes in the form of a very lame 2D top down shooter, although at least the developer put in some effort and make bespoke levels and boss fights instead of relying on procgen as a substitute for content. Kudos for that. Unfortunately being a genuinely, sincerely made game is not enough alone to create an excellent gaming experience. This game features very lacklustre minimalist/pixel "art" for graphics instead of anything remotely contemporary. I'm sure the "developer" thought this would come across as "artistic", but it doesn't, it comes across as "really lazy" and looks bad as a result of their lack of interest in doing their job properly. Developers must try to understand that gaming is a visual medium, and gamers spend a lot of money on high end gaming rigs for a reason. And that reason is not so they can look at lazy, phoned-in half efforts like this. The developer chose not to do the job of a real game developer and create meaningful bespoke levels, narrative based gameplay progression and so on. Instead, they decided that "Procgen IS content!" and lazily tried to use procgen algorithms to create infinite, samey, repetitive, soulless levels, because that's a lot less work. As a result of this poor decision, the game gets tired and repetitive almost immediately. Developers must learn that procgen is a terrible substitute for creating real content. It should not be used as "ez-mode" for content creation, as the developer tried to do here. Not every "free" game really is. There's often MTX, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of things that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming industry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 3 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. 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? 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.