Hardcore Trivia

Hardcore Trivia is a plagiarised "Trivia" game from Finnish asset flipper, JTS/F-Games, who once more is trying to scam PC gamers into paying him for someone else's work. F-Games/JTS Development have a known history of trying to scam people into paying them money for someone else's work, through this account or through closely linked/alt accounts. One example of F-Games/JTS Development doing this is [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/935340]Green Dragon[/url], which is really the "[url=https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/templates/systems/beat-em-up-game-template-78297]Beat 'Em Up - Game Template[/url]" asset, written by the actual developers, Osarion. The game was abandoned roughly only one day after launch and hasn't been updated in a year and a half. It blew past the developers commitment to complete the game without any notification or admission of failure from the developer. The game will never be completed. Taking this shovelware seriously as if it was a genuine attempt to make a game, it 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 game features mostly static, barely animated 2D images, the kind of thing you expect to see in browser/flash games. While the artwork itself, while mediocre, might be considered passable, the visual presentation here is negligible, it might as well be a slideshow or a Youtube video. Pac-Man, Space Invaders and Asteroids had more advanced animation and visuals going on than this game does. The implementation here is of such poor quality, the developer couldn't work out how to make the game display in fullscreen, it only runs in a window. The controls can't be customised because the game has such a dumbed down, simplified interface that it's just point and click stuff like a browser/Flash game. The fact that the interface is this dumbed down might be seen as a problem in itself, however... this is a fairly shallow experience if you're the kind of gamer that likes to play games with deep, rich control schemes and interaction. You'll get none of that here. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The poor quality of this game 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 2 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 game is to be expected. Unethically, the developer sold keys to this abandoned Early Access game into cheap, nasty game bundles, where they knew it would be advertised and sold as a complete PC game. This seems to have been done in an attempt to mislead gamers into buying a knowingly faulty, defective and incomplete product. When a developer does this for a game they have zero practical intention of completing, this is essentially a scam, an intention to get paid for a broken/unfinished product. Often this is done as an exit strategy, as the developer takes the money and runs. No refunds have been given, the developer kept all the money they took from gamers. Another unethical act of this developer, knowing full well that this game is abandoned and they will never complete it, they are deliberately trying to scam gamers into buying it by offering it on discount from time to time. It's impossible to "accidentally" discount a game. The developer looked at their abandoned game, and instead of doing the right thing and removing it from Steam, they instead doubled-down and tried to scam even more people into paying for it. Greedy, and completely unethical. Doing the wrong thing, on purpose, for money. This is not okay. The game contains stock/store assets/libraries/packages, but the "developer" here hasn't credited the people who actually did the work for the game. Claiming credit for the work of others as well as breaching software licenses is highly unethical. Gamers should be made aware when a developer behaves unethically and breaches license/copyright agreements, as buying games from unethical developers puts the gamers money at risk. Hardcore Trivia has the total ripoff price of around $5 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the unethical nature of the developer. Remember that if you buy a game from an unethical developer, you're putting your money at risk. [quote][b][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/profile]Profile Features Limited![/url][/b] Valve have marked this game as "Profile Features Limited" at the time of this review. This is usually caused by poor sales figures and low community acceptance for the game (to date). Until this status changes, this game will not give you +1 to your Game Collector badge count, appear in profile achievements or any other Steam meta-accomplishments, nor can it be displayed in some profile showcases. If these factors are important to you, it may be worth holding off before buying this game.[/quote]

2/10 Hardcore Trivia is a hastily put together trivia game with lots of pop ups and clip art images. It doesn’t feel like the creators even like trivia and you won’t learn anything you don’t know because they neglect to give the correct answer. My takeaway: I have no idea how to develop or create a decent game so when I say that I could make something better than Hardcore Trivia it says a lot. Hardcore Trivia is a trivia game where you have multiple choice answers. They don’t tell you if you answer them correctly and the limited amount of trivia genres make this game extremely unappealing. You can choose between the very specific topics of c++ coding, European Countries, Ice Hockey, US Flags, etc. The ‘art’ consists of transparent Google images, the music is nearly non-existent, and it doesn’t deliver what it claims to be (I would hardly call it Hardcore Trivia). Also the game glitches out when you click on answers and you’re stuck with an anime girl in the middle of the screen blocking everything in your view until she times out. Honestly feels very rushed and lazily put together. They claim to be adding achievements later which just might save the game because at the moment it definitely feels like a lazy achievement farming game without the achievements. [u]Pros[/u] [list] [*] It’s playable for a few minutes. [/list] [u]Cons[/u] [list] [*] Note Hardcore and barely Trivia. [*] Art/images had to be found on Google Images because they were basically all transparent stock photos. [*] Grammar, spelling, and sentence structure are all over the place and often wrong. [*] Because they don’t tell you the correct answers you don’t learn anything you don’t already know; which is half the fun of trivia! [*] Anime girl that pops up just stays on the screen until she glitches out. [*] Sound effects are poorly chosen. [*] Music? [*] Pop ups. [*] Not worth it. Not even for free. [/list] To see more reviews like this one come support me and follow this curating page! I’d really appreciate it! https://store.steampowered.com/curator/46085490-SumiSux-At-Games/

Terribad. Ten general trivia questions, most of which mundane - after which, the game is over and you're sent back to the menu. All the while, bug popups constantly appear. Don't waste your money.

[url=http://store.steampowered.com/curator/35568834]If you found this review helpful follow my curator page where my Family and I review games with an honest review based on our gameplay experience. [/url] [h1]Hardcore Trivia[/h1] 15 Jun 22 3/10 [b]Pros[/b] It runs My PC didn’t melt The patch notes tell you exactly what you are getting vis a via total questions in the game (10 per category, 6 categories - 60 questions total) It stops when I tell it to stop The English translation works, the grammar is choppy - My brain didn’t crash. The game was patched in the middle of writing this review - the developer seems to be committed to the game [b]Cons[/b] The actual trivia is not that hard. Most trivia in other games is derived from the esoteric or a nuanced variation of a theme. No options/settings to dial back the music or to change any other settings I lose the gameplay when I try to maximize the windowed popup If compliance with grammar is a sticking point for you the game will present a challenge A nagging suspicion in the back of my head that something else is going on while/after the game is running. There are only 10 questions per category - the game is not pulling from a pool of questions and then giving you a random 10 per try. [b]Review[/b] It is hard to review this game because there is not much to it. The store page alludes to a Jeopardy-style game but it is simply a nested pop-up with music and a separate alert page giving you the total score as you go. I honestly thought I had a system exception error when the score pop-up first occurred. As to value, what you are getting for what you are paying - at the current price, with tax, it comes out to $US 0.07/question. The game is also in EA and I get that it has potential, but I can’t write a review on potential and hope. Finally, I also get the sneaking suspicion that while I am answering simple questions they are stealing my data in the background while I am playing. It just feels off - I have been playing Steam games and video games for a looooooong time and this is the first one that made me question if I should immediately stop playing and cut my data cords. [b]Let me be clear - there is no evidence of any malicious activity[/b], and I have nothing that would suggest an issue with the code…it is just a feeling I get. I wish the developers the best and if they keep working on the game I’ll come back and update my review then.

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