Lantern of Worlds - Storybook

It is a work of love from indy developer Fasold Games. I am eager to see what we can expect from this storyteller in the future. Check it out

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"Lantern of Worlds - Storybook" is RPG Maker garbage, but it looks like the developer did the almost-right thing and didn't flip any RPG Maker assets or try to make yet another Final Fantasy 1 ripoff about his imaginary anime girlfriend (seriously, most RPG Maker asset flips on Steam are about the developers imaginary anime girlfriend, it's weird). Instead we get an almost authentic looking retro adventure game where you click through a bunch of badly written dialogue and do some other RPG-like minigame kinda activities which thankfully can be clicked through in about an hour, and when one of the best things anyone can say about your product is that it's short, spending $100 on Steam Direct may not be the best course of action. What do you do in the game? The idea is that the Kingdom of Idunia (idunnoia) is menaced by dark forces or whatever so you need to click on a bunch of stuff and read some really cringey writing to make it go away. I appreciate the somewhat more earnest attempt to recreate a retro gaming feel here, but you know those old games this is badly aping still exist, and my advice for people who want that retro nostalgia should go and play the originals. Indeed, the D&D gold and silver box games are all here on Steam, remember those? Although you may quickly find out the meaning behind the phrase, "You can't go home again." For gameplay purposes, because the user interface for this game is mostly just 2D static text/images... it might as well be a web page. It's functionally no different from a browser game. And we all know, Steam isn't here to compete with Chrome and Firefox. If the game can be done in a web browser, it's just not rich or compelling enough to appeal to serious gamers on PC. There's an overwhelming amount of mediocre Visual Novel/E-book style cutscenes in this game. The developers failed one of the most basic, fundamental requirements of game design.. "Show, don't tell." So you'll spend a huge amount of time not playing the game, but clicking through endless lines of poorly written VN text cutscenes because the developers couldn't work out how to relate their narrative through the game mechanics, and decided instead it would be better to compete with reading a book for your time. We're here to play games, not read through hours of garbage intersituals. Your gaming rig is not a Kindle. The game features really lacklustre 2D visuals (does the developer not know 3D graphics became mainstream in the mid-1990s?). Gamers don't spend thousands of dollars on gaming rigs and the latest 3D graphics cards to play 2D games. Even mobile phones and game consoles can do 3D graphics now. There's no excuse. This game is fairly dated at 6 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. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. Most "free" games on Steam aren't really free. There's usually some kind of monetisation, from nasty mobile app cash shops, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, to any other number of shady pricing schemes that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming industry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable, or something you might want to spend your time on. In terms of public reception, this failed to appeal to the 130 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at just a dozen or so concurrent players, and now there's basically nobody playing it. Even though it's free. This is a dismal public reception, but it's easy to see why gamers rejected it. 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? I think you should give this one a miss. Although it's free, your time and storage are valuable resources, and the market is filled with superior options.

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