FIL

RPG Maker strikes again! FIL is one of hundreds of low effort retro-pixel RPG Maker asset/construction kit flips spamming the Steam catalog, made with the RPG Maker video game construction kit... in their own words, "Our easy to use tools are simple enough for a child." Like all RPG Maker "games", this is essentially a bunch of low quality/canned assets from RPG Maker coupled with a cringeworthy high school anime club fan fiction. This garbage RPG Maker kitbash does feature some bespoke artwork and it also features a bunch of bespoke fake reviews from the developers, giving this a fake "positive" review score. Turns out, due to a federal ruling last year, review manipulation like this is a federal crime. It's misleading to the general public, and it's also against Valve's rules, too. And we know it's bespoke art assets because they look way worse than the usual RPG Maker stock assets... and yeah, asset flipping is bad, but making assets even worse than the ones you could just steal and claim as your own isn't any better for the gamer. But, as usual, RPG Maker crapware is never made for gamers, it's made so people who aren't capable of actually making games (hence the use of a crappy construction kit) can pretend they're real game developers even when they aren't. And the result of that mess obviously has no value for gamers whatsoever. This godawful RPG Maker kitbash has a garbage fan-fiction plot about robots saving the solar system... the writing is basically cringey high school tier gibberish. Perfectly on par with the crap game assets and godawful RPG Maker engine. Such beautiful symmetry of trash. As with all RPG Maker games, the poor quality engine displays badly in fullscreen and doesn't have full HD support or any graphics tweaking options, making this unacceptable for any dedicated modern PC gamer. The point can be made that the intention of RPG Maker is to make demos and small games to pass around friends, and shouldn't be used for "professional" game development. Like most RPG Maker shovelware and asset flips, the game features extremely low quality copy + pasted 2D retro pixel art, looks awful, and has even worse gameplay. RPG Maker is an absolutely terrible construction kit, and never results in games of any reasonable quality or value to gamers. This is "free" enough, 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. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 4 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? Nope. This isn't worth downloading. While this didn't cost me any money up front, I still feel ripped off.