HAMMY

HAMMY is a mobile app that's been dumped on Steam as if it was a real PC game (it's not)... it's a cash grab from greedy mobile devs. This mobile app is an unabashed, lazy ripoff of Super Monkey Ball (Copyright Sega/Amusement Vision, 2001). Many lazy "amateur" developers don't pay attention to their obligations under copyright law, and often steal the ideas of actual, real game developers without credit, such as the "developer" here has done. At this stage no legal action has been taken by Sega/Amusement Vision against the "developer" here, but it's never off the table, as previous copyright law cases have shown. Putting aside the unethical intellectual bankruptcy of stealing someone else's game concept for profit, this is also breaking that unwritten law of stealing other people's game ideas... you should at least try to do better than the game you're ripping off. HAMMY is considerably worse than Super Monkey Ball. The monkey has been replaced with a low poly hamster, and the developer was so lazy/inept, they couldn't work out how to properly animate the hamster so it just blinks forwards and backwards like it's on a binary see-saw... it's incredibly lazy garbage. Likewise the bananas and obstacles and other interesting elements of the map design from Super Monkey Ball are missing from this mobile app trashware. From a technical perspective, as a mobile app, this 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. The mobile app features lazy minimalist/untextured low-polygon "retro" assets and visuals, making this look like a barely functional 3D game from the early 1990s. The lack of textures is a method that lazy devs often use to disguise their lack of talent/interest in doing the graphics properly and trying to disguise it under the name of "art", or "We made it look bad on purpose", which really isn't something gamers should have to put up with. It's unclear why the developers weren't willing to arrange high quality, high polygon count contemporary assets and high resolution textures for the mobile app. It looks bad as a result of their decisions, and that's just another reason to avoid it. The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the mobile app unplayable for differently-abled gamers, or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts. Because this is a mobile app, it carries a number of deliberate design deficiencies. Compromises were made to cater to the iPhones that the mobile app was designed for. These are unfortunate handicaps and limitations that PC gamers shouldn't be forced to accept, but it's evident that PC was an afterthought for the iPhone developers who are to blame for this. The mobile app is deficient as a result of these choices, and would have been so much better without the handicaps that designing games for mobile phones forces upon a game. Once more, mobile devs have made gaming worse for everyone. I didn't spend thousands on building a gaming rig just so I could pretend it's an iPhone. These technical defects push this mobile app below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The poor quality of this mobile app 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 3 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from (over 9,000 completely free titles), the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality mobile app is to be expected. [b]Note:[/b] Due to the very poor quality of the mobile app, all the comedians came out of the woodwork. The vast majority of the reviews for this mobile app are joke reviews, such as "this game cured my cancer, saved my marriage, changed my life" etc. Because most of the reviews are as insincere/mocking the mobile app, the positive review score for this mobile app should be disregarded. If these joke reviews weren't providing false positives, the game would have a significantly lower review score. Once more we see greedy mobile devs trying to scam PC gamers. On Steam, this is $1 USD, on app stores, it's free. 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. Because this can be played free elsewhere, and because of the other defects, it's impossible to recommend. Who do they think we are?

Absolute game changer, changed my life

Amazing game. It's really fun with the Platformer style and collecting gems to unlock skins. 10/10

Hard not to compare it to other, more popular, primate-based games in the same genre, but Hammy is pretty fun, at least as long as you enjoyed the track-based obstacle courses of the aforementioned-yet-unnamed primate-based game in this same genre. TL;DR - Me like it. It not monkey, but me still like.

This game saved my family. Let me expalin. When I was a wee lad we were broke, no clothes, no food, no water, and just nothing until one day a man gifted me hammy. I grinded the game and entered a hammy tournament. I won the grand prize of 1,00,000 USD. PLEASE PLAY THIS GAME.

This game saved my life. When I was a tad tot my parents got into a car crash and right after their demise i found a PC in an alleyway. No sign in, No homescreen, just hammy. After collecting 1000 gems my parents rose from the dead. No injury. Love Hammy.

It changed my life

Hammy ist mein Lieblingsspiel! Dieses Spiel hat meine Sicht auf Rennspiele verändert. Sie sollten Hammy kaufen, weil es ein Hamster in einer Kugel ist. Sehr zu empfehlen. 🤑🤑🤑❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍