Hard, Fast, & Flashy

"Hard, Fast, & Flashy" is an extremely badly made, lazy parkour platformer with zero attention to graphics and a soundtrack shamelessly ripped off from Future Crew's Second Reality/Unreal ][ soundtrack from Purple Motion. So we have creative bankruptcy and one of the laziest attempts to make a "game" I've seen here on the shovelware section of Steam Direct for literally hours. What do you do in the game? It's a platformer, but worse. Jump around, uninstall and just watch Second Reality again. That face, when your entire game is worse than a PC demo scene job from the 1990s. Thanks, Steam Direct, once more making gaming worse for everyone. A well intentioned disaster, and "Hard, Fast & Flashy" (which is neither hard, nor fast, nor flashy) is the outcome. The game is really simple and unambitious in terms of implementation, more of a tech demo or one of those cases where an amateur developer spends $100 to publish something on Steam Direct to see if it's possible. Yes, obviously it's possible. A proof of concept, tech demo, or something that's less than a little blip on the radar isn't offering anything truly valuable to gamers. The graphics here are particularly awful, so bad that it actually stands out as one of the worst looking games on Steam. Quite an accomplishment. 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're forced to sign a highly questionable yet legally unenforceable End User License Agreement... for such a relatively low effort, low quality product, this comes across more as a delusion of grandeur than anything else. This agreement includes questionable requirements that may attempt to revoke consumer law protections that gamers expect to have, which is also highly problematic. Developers must learn they are here to serve gamers, not control them. I had my cat walk over the keyboard while the EULA was displaying, which fixed that problem for me. This game is fairly dated at 5 years old... and even back then it looked old and busted compared to contemporary, professionally made 3D games of the same period. It looked bad then, it looks worse now. On pricing, this is "free" enough, at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good, and the cost of a game is more than just financial, your time is valuable too. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 13 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. 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? Nope. This isn't worth downloading. While this didn't cost me any money up front, I still feel almost as ripped off as Future Crew.