[quote][b][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_flip]Warning: Asset Flip![/url][/b]
First Day: Home Defender is a Digital Homicide style asset flip, or what Valve calls a "Fake Game". The "developer" paid for/pirated a few Unity asset store packs, dumped them all in a blender, and submitted it to Valve as if they're real game developers.[/quote]
Two notable criteria for what makes an asset flip instead of legitimate use of stock assets are whether those assets comprise the majority of the game, and whether the "developer" properly credited the people who created most of the assets in the game. This game fails both of those tests. The "developers" here didn't credit any of the artists and real, actual game developers who created the assets here, so this is plagiarism, as well as cash grab shovelware.
In this case, the asset flipper took a bunch of stolen Unity "zombie" assets and some stolen background scenes and made a truly garbage point and click wave survival shooter. This is some of the laziest asset flipping I've ever seen, this is lazy even for HandMade Games. It has no value or merit as a real game.
BadWolf Games/HandMade Games have shown a repeat pattern of unethically dumping other people's work onto Steam as a cheap, nasty cash grab, through this account or through closely linked/alt accounts. Here's some examples so you can see for yourself:
[list]
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/535260]Save Home[/url]" = [url=https://forum.unity.com/threads/released-ultimate-survival-the-complete-survival-template.442016/]Ultimate Survival[/url] developed by Winterbyte
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/2157440]Run Run Boy[/url]" = [url=https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/templates/packs/branches-64026]Branches[/url] developed by SgLib Games
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/2221090]Escape of Pig[/url]" = [url=https://www.sellmyapp.com/downloads/the-pig-escape/]The Pig Escape[/url] developed by Fox Game Studio
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/2161590]Bike Arena[/url]" = [url=https://www.sellanycode.com/item/965/dirt-bike-rally-top-trending-game]Dirt Bike Rally[/url] developed by Virgil Source
[/list]
Taking this shovelware seriously as if it was a genuine attempt to make a game, it doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.
There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 4 players, and the worst part is these were probably just fake review accounts writing the suspicious positive reviews for this trashware.
So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam?
First Day: Home Defender has the greedy, cash grab price of $10 USD, for which you could easily get any number of older AAA games. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, and the questionable ethical nature of the developer and/or their associates (as outlined above), this is impossible to recommend.
For comparison, the $10 asking price for this game could get you games like "Europa Universalis IV", "Frostpunk" or "Rise of the Tomb Raider". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this.
[quote][b][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/profile]Profile Features Limited![/url][/b]
Valve have marked this game as "Profile Features Limited" at the time of this review. This is usually caused by poor sales figures and low community acceptance for the game (to date). Until this status changes, this game will not give you +1 to your Game Collector badge count, appear in profile achievements or any other Steam meta-accomplishments, nor can it be displayed in some profile showcases. If these factors are important to you, it may be worth holding off before buying this game.[/quote]
