Flagsplosion

Flagsplosion is a free mobile app that's been dumped on Steam as a cheap, lazy cash grab. It's a basic flag quiz game. Observe a picture of a national flag, and click on the name of the nation that flag belongs to. That's all there is to it. The whole thing could be done in a browser, and has no merits or value for PC gamers. Once more we see greedy mobile devs trying to scam PC gamers. They want $3 USD for this free mobile app! Mobile devs must learn PC gamers are not here to be gouged, and can't be expected to pay a premium for a free mobile app just because it's been lazily dumped on Steam. This is unacceptable disrespect for PC gamers. I didn't spend thousands on a gaming PC so I could pretend it's an iPhone. I can't recommend anyone buys this when you can play it for free on mobile, not that anyone would want to. [quote][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/reviews]Developer Response![/url][/quote] The developer has weighed in to inform everyone they didn't read the [url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/reviews]Developer Usage Rules[/url] for Steam "partners", or they deliberately ignored the part where Valve says "Though it may be tempting, not every review needs to be responded to." The developer attempts to somehow defend their PC-hostile pricing schema without actually managing to succeed there. Mobile peasants love ads, that doesn't excuse them gouging PC gamers. The developer then offers a trite attempt at an excuse by saying they lost money on the game but they never intended to make money from it anyway. Well, obviously it lost money, I've seen better games written in Flash and given away for free. I've played better games on a Nokia 3310. Games don't exist in a vacuum, there's competition, so poor products lose out. However, the claim they made this for "fun" and not money doesn't ring true; they dumped this onto Steam as a cash grab, and that's factually supported by the way they sold keys in bulk to DailyIndieGame. Why the developer feels the need to be evasive in front of the evidence is unclear, but the evidence remains. None of this changes the crux of my review, this is deplorably low quality, doesn't really belong on Steam, and certainly can't be recommended.