Knightczech: The beginning

"Knightczech: The beginning" is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "Knightczech". Knightczech is something that was never actually made, I guess after the developer saw that gamers weren't actually desperate for yet another 2D retro pixel platformer (because there's over 17,000 of these on Steam already and nobody wanted those either), they gave up. Not before polluting Steam with this, unfortunately. But this isn't completely relevant because this is not Knightczech, it's just an advertisment for it, so it's not correct to try to review that completely distinct product. We must instead review this for what it is... an advertisement. If you enjoy advertisements, you can consume them for free on the web or on Youtube without needing to add them to your game library, download them, and then launch the advertising. It's impossible in a general sense to recommend people should do that over playing real, full games on Steam, and that applies here with "Knightczech: The beginning" too. This is only free in the same way that adverts on Youtube and banner ads in your browser are. This is a game demo that's been dumped on Steam to advertise another Steam store page in the hopes of raking in some cash. Just because advertisements are free, doesn't mean they're worth your time. It's important to understand there's a formal process to create a demo/page for a game which hasn't been followed here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos While it might seem like an inocuous mistake, publishing demos and advertisements as if they are full games is misleading and in some ways harmful. This advertisement is taking up marketing space and visibility that would be better made available to a developer that's done the right thing and created a full game. Instead, that visibility is given over to a demo/advert that's been published incorrectly and is polluting the marketplace. It's unclear if this mistake was made through incompetence or a deliberate intent to mislead gamers. Often developers may choose to incorrectly publish demo/advertisements as separate games as a cheap way to bypass paying Valve for marketing presence on the Steam front page, which may seem clever to them, but it's harmful behaviour and it's not good for gamers. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 5 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Advertisements and incorrectly published demos don't add +1 to your game collector count, they aren't full games. It's impossible for me to recommend this incorrectly published advertising spam to gamers, you deserve better than adverts. [quote][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/reviews]Developer Response![/url][/quote]The developer has weighed in to inform everyone they didn't read the [url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/reviews]Developer Usage Rules[/url] for Steam "partners", or they deliberately ignored the part where Valve says: [quote]Though it may be tempting, not every review needs to be responded to. A developer response will frequently draw more attention than the original statement, potentially turning a small issue into a much larger community discussion. It's also not a good idea to use this feature to refute customer opinions. Your direct attention can be seen as validation or a defensive attempt to silence your customers.[/quote] The developer complains that their advertisement for a product they never bothered to make got reviewed as an advertisement. Weird they have all the time to pore over game reviews but no apparent time to work on the full game, but let's face it, this is abandoned and it's obvious why... it was an objective failure. There's a few other confessions from the developer that explain why this turned out so badly. The developer admits they didn't hire a team of talented staff to produce the game and tried to do the whole thing on their own, instead. This is a lot like boarding an airplane, and halfway through the flight, having the pilot come out and serve peanuts. It's going to end in disaster. It requires a team of competent people to do a complex job properly, and that's not what has happened here... another explanation for the poor quality of this game. The developer complains that they "worked very hard" to make this, therefore it cannot be a bad product. What bizarre rubbish. If I had "worked hard" for years and the result was this godawful game, I'd be utterly ashamed of my failure. Hard work doesn't mean quality work, it just highlights the incompetence here. For us gamers, for whom games are made (the developer seems to have forgotten that), it doesn't matter if GTA:V was made by one guy in a shed over the space of a weekend and Depression Question took 1000 staff working for 5 years to make, what matters is the resultant quality of the product. You can see the intellectual dishonesty of the developer made apparent from their comments. The developer then travels to another reality in space and time and decides because people write negative reviews for his garbage failed pixelcrap, that encouraged people to play it more and made him a game development superstar. Let's check SteamDB and test that wacky, let's face it, deranged position. Yep... still no players. Nobody played this since my review. [b]Nobody[/b]. The developer seems a bit delusional on this point. The fact is that this was a complete and utter failure. SteamDB does not lie. Only 5 concurrent players, only once, is textbook failure of the worst kind. Gamers rejected this. The developer breaches Valve guidelines to argue against a review that just points out facts he doesn't like and can't emotionally come to terms with. This is a deplorable attitude, and it explains why this was such a failure, but it doesn't excuse it. Nothing in the developers pointless breach of Valve guidelines changes any of the objective facts of my review. My review stands unaltered. I cannot recommend this advertisement for a dead product to anyone.

Норм

Атмосферный 2D-платформер с элементами RPG и экшена. Плюсы: Уникальная атмосфера — захватывающий мир фэнтези с тёмными элементами; Исследование — возможность исследовать различные уголки королевства; Разнообразие уровней — от лесов до подземелий. Минусы: Однопользовательский режим — нет мультиплеера; Однотипные враги — мало разнообразия в противниках; Сложность — некоторые уровни могут показаться сложными. Итог: Knightczech: The beginning — для любителей атмосферных платформеров. Привлекает уникальной атмосферой и разнообразием локаций, но может разочаровать однообразием врагов и отсутствием мультиплеера.

Malheureusement le jeu se lance mais en appuyant sur les touches et cliques indiqué par le jeu rien ne se passe. De plus le jeu n'est pas indiqué comme étant en accès anticipé, donnant un prix trop excessif pour celui-ci

I dont like giving negative reviews. But this time have to. I tried to play this gaem with kids, but only thing what we managed was some dizzy tutorial and when we step in full story, we made few steps and were permanently dying. This is not good game. I know somebady is trying to create ALTF4 or etc, bnut this ddin make good feeling. I CAN NOT RECOMMEND TO MY FRIEND NOR GRANDMA.

its a good game，but we need CHINESE，please if have Chinese，i will turn good thank you