Icy Incline

Icy Incline is a penguin racing game. The game has a few tracks and some are copy-pasted with a different obstacle or two. Most levels have RNG obstacles as well. The controls are abhorrent and the turning speed compared to the speed you're going is a joke. Oh yeah, you cannot brake either. The game also runs at super low FPS and you have to manually tune down your refresh rate. Overall, this game isn't worth playing at all. The gameplay is super poor.

"Icy Incline", 24 buzlu yol boyunca kayan bir pengueni kontrol ettiğiniz bir deneyimdir. Zamana karşı yarışın, engellerden kaçının ve en hızlı süre için en iyi rotayı bulun ve her parkurun sonuna ulaşın. En iyi skor, en kötü skor gibi istatistiklerle performansınızı görün.

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"Icy Incline" is nothing more than a shameless ripoff copycat of the free and open-source Tux Racer (Copyright Sunspire Studios, 1999). Many amateur "indie" devs treat intellectual property like something to brush away when they single handedly "invent" someone else's game and slap their name on it, stealing ideas from real developers because they lack the talent to create their own. Like this. Which is also weird because they could have just made their own Tux Racer using the FOSS source code... of course then that doesn't make an amateur developer feel good about himself because we'd all know it's Tux Racer. So instead, we get Temu Tux Racer. Setting aside the ethical failure, the problem is that when amateur devs rip off other people's games, it's almost always worse than the original... just like this is. 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. This game looks a lot better visually than the actual gameplay. It could be the developer purchased high-end assets (no proof of that), or somehow managed to create great-looking assets while delivering a mediocre game, in this case it could be either... but there's no hard proof this is an asset flip. But as always, ethics of asset flipping aside (whether this is one or not), what matters is the quality of the game, and this has all the same low qualities that we expect from asset flip shovelware. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. This is "free" enough (not every "free" game in the "free" section is truly free, there's usually some hidden price tag), 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. A peak of [b]4 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. Since free games don't contribute to your game collector badge and other profile stuff, is this a worthwhile addition to your Steam library? Nope. This isn't worth downloading. There's no financial cost up-front, but you'd still be spending your time and a little hard drive space on a product that's far from the best. There's thousands of better alternatives on Steam.

sux, would not suprise me if its a crypto miner