孔明锁

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"孔明锁" ("Kongming Lock") is barely a game, it's a representation of wooden block puzzles that have interconnected pieces that you "unlock" to separate the wooden pieces. And then re-assemble. And then unassemble again. Literally minutes of fun. These puzzles were popular in the late 1970's before electronic entertainment changed the world. Now... not quite as popular. What do you do in the game? You pick from around a dozen locking puzzles then muck around with them in 3D. No real purpose or rewards or anything, it's at best a mediocre representation of some childrens toys. If the developer had made a 3D representation of an Etch-A-Sketch I wouldn't call that a game either. There's no English translation for the game, but that's okay. The language of bad games is universal. This feels more like a tech demo or a project smacked together hurriedly to try make a kind of minimum viable product just good enough to pass the developers unambitious idea and shove it into Steam Direct to see if you can actually pay $100 and publish junk through Steam Direct. Yeah, you can. Is this good for gamers? Nope. The graphics aren't great, rather low quality 3D renditions of old wooden puzzles. That's understandably a turn off for a lot of gamers, and it's a big contributor to the failure of the game to attract gamers despite having no up-front cost. Gaming is a primarily visual medium, and if developers want to succeed, they must understand that it's not an area for compromise. You deserve better than compromises. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. There's no initial download price, but the developer was charging $1 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. This is also a bit of a slap in the face to anyone who showed enough questionable judgement to pay money for this... nobody got refunded. A peak of [b]2 concurrent players[/b] (according to SteamDB) for a "free" game is a disastrous public reception. Out of 130 million potential players here on Steam, almost nobody was interested. Even though this is "free". That level of rejection speaks a lot for the quality of the game. 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? What's the verdict? Pass on this one. There's no immediate financial commitment, but there are thousands of more compelling games on the platform that will give you a lot more enjoyment for your time.