Flock of Dogs

"Flock of Dogs" is a failed attempt to make a quirky 2D hand drawn action/party game ripping off themes from Dr Seuss. There's some minigames and top down action/arcade type gameplay and wacky flying gods that, yes, live on a whale. Ok whatever. This ostensibly failed because while the art concept is charming, the delivery is clunky, and the animations are pretty poor. The graphics in this game are passable, but could be better. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here. 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. There's no initial download price, but the developer was charging $10 USD for this. Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It seems like a nice gesture for the game to have no up-front cost anymore, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product. Even after that, this still isn't really free as you're expected to pay up more money (up to $18 USD) to unlock content/DLC so you can keep playing. This is some predatory, misleading pricing on a non-free product. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at just a dozen or so concurrent players, and now there's basically nobody playing it. Even though it's free. This is a dismal public reception, but it's easy to see why gamers rejected it. It's important to note that, despite this being such a low quality product, there's a number of positive reviews that all appeared immediately after the game launched, from suspiciously inactive Steam accounts that have reviewed almost no other games apart from this. Take the review score of this game with a grain of salt. 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? This isn't really a "free" game, it's got mobile app tier predatory pricing, which is the kind of thing PC gamers hate. That's just another reason not to bother downloading this "free" game.

Yo what up, y’all. So I just straight up peeped Flock of Dogz for the first time and I straight up gotta say, it be one of the dopest and most thug experiences I’ve had with a video game in a minute, yo. The gameplay be flowy and bangin, and the graphics be lookin fresh and vibrant, y’know what I’m sayin? The story and those characters be mad bangin and worth memorizin, and the message bout bein mad chill and respectin each other be mad chillin and makin you think, fool.

This game is a blast, An absolute hidden gem albeit a bit buggy but it more than makes up for that in game play. Grab some lads and give this game a go!

good

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☀️

when you're fried it's like being in a dr. seuss book

This game is strangely addicting right out of the gate (in fact, even prior to the gate). There is charm, whimsy, curiosity, and just like "fun".

Cute. Fun. Having both shared screen and network multiplayer at the same time makes it easy to play with others.

I've played quite a few one-man, proc-gen, rogue-likes. And this is definitely one of the nicer ones.