Izmir: An Independence Simulator

İzmir iyiydi, Kadifekale ve çevresi kötüydü.

I have several problems with this game: - the description of this game makes it sound like there is more story than it actually offers. - the characters are not as important as you might like to think - the levels are pretty easy, even with little to no understanding of tower defense or what the weapons actually do, you can easily complete the levels with 3 stars. - the promised mix of "word war I and future" is not really there for me. the future element seem to be extraterrestial creatures and some magic spells for some reason - there are only 12 levels, all of which are pretty easy, have the same amount of waves and similar enemies - very limited variety of enemies and units - a number of achievememts are bugged and even tho this has been known for a while, no dev has felt the need to adress it. - no updates since the game came out, i doubt that it will ever be "finished" Can't really recommend the game at this point.

How you can make a TD game this bad is quite impressive in itself.

Newgrounds'taki herhangi bir flash oyun bu oyundan daha özenli ve güzeldi. Küçük basit oyunlar yapıp portfolyo geliştirmeyi tabiki anlıyorum ama bu oyunu satışa koymanız büyük ayıp. Basit eğlencenin eğlence kısmını gözden çıkarıp her türlü template ve presetle yaptığınız oyunun bari içeriği İzmirin o dönemki tarihini yansıtsa. Seer mı witch mi belli olmayan kadın, zaten Türkiye'de witch ne arasın vampirler cadılar Avrupa'nın olayı, oracle ne alaka, gelecekten tech çalmak gibi tükürükle yapıştırılmış bir sci-fi unsuru. Konak'tan niye direkt Selçuk'a gidiliyor onu da anlamadım

It's bad, and abondoware. Steam should remove any early access game that has no updates for 1-2 years.

Izmir: An Independence Simulator is a Turkish abandoned early access hybrid of web-browser tier kingdom manager and crappy tower defense game. And it's rough as guts and completely unfinished... and even if it was a complete game, there's no signs it would be any good. Let's break it down. The game was abandoned immediately at launch (the developer published NO updates after launching into Early Access), and that was two years ago. The game will never be completed. The game has two components, the kingdom manager part and the TD part... these are completely separate and the TD component is totally uninfluenced by the kingdom management webpage component. It was apparently the intention of the developer for there to be some connection, but there isn't. This is just two broken, incomplete, unrelated games bolted together. From a technical perspective, both game components don't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. The game features mostly static, barely animated 2D images for the kingdom management component, 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 tower defense component of the game 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 game. It looks bad as a result of their decisions, and that's just another reason to avoid it. 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. The very poor quality of this game puts it squarely on-par with ancient 1990's Flash/Java games, and given it's 2024 (and this was released not so far back in 2022), gamers and the industry expect and deserve better than this kind of low effort shovelware. 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 6 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, 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. Izmir: An Independence Simulator is relatively cheap at $2, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, and the questionable ethical nature of the developer and/or their associates (as outlined above), this is impossible to recommend. [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]

This feels more like an unfinished project than a complete game. The gameplay is repetitive, the content is extremely limited, and it doesn't seem like it's getting any meaningful updates. It's hard to recommend when it feels abandoned and lacking in almost every area.

arkadaşım kırıcı olmak istemiyorum, ama oyunda ne bir denge ne de yeterli bölüm sayısı var erken erişim diyip geçmemek lazım.. hadi müşteriye saygın yok kendine saygın olsun bitir öyle koy oyununu; tek bir high tech tareti koyup, upgrade basıp bitirebiliyorsun tüm oyunu zaten üzerine 3 tane skill koymuşsunuz vesaire veisare.. ''79 kuruşa oyun alıyosun'' diye düşünenler olabilir oyunun parasının hiç bir önemi yok neyse hadi verdim pozitifi.. görüşürüz

I can't even describe how bad this game is

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