Last Day of FEAR is yet another asset flip copy+paste from Russian shovelware pushers, Laush Studio. These guys (or just one guy flipping accounts to mislead gamers) do nothing but copy premade game templates and game tutorials, fill out a few things/stamp out basic levels using the construction kit templates, slap on an asset flipped set of sprites/assets, and dump them on Steam and into DailyIndieGame bundles as cash grabs. Trying to get paid for someone else's game templates, assets... at best, this is shovelware, at worst, it's a scam/cash grab.
This time they tried to make an actual game by using assets from actual developers and arranging them haphazardly into a first person horror adventure game. Of course, they didn't bother to credit the actual developers who did most of the work (creating all the game assets and the game engine), Laush just claims this as his own work, which might not be against the license for the assets, but it's unethical plagiarism. But we should expect this from Russian asset flippers like Laush. The asset flipped house is particularly egregious.
Comedy points awarded for using a craptastic text-to-speech engine for "narrating" this crap, badly translated game. This truly is a joke of a game.
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.
While there's options to change the resolution for the game and customise the graphics settings (thanks to the lazy default Unity launcher), Laush ignores these and runs your game at a locked resolution in fullscreen. Appalling. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted laziness. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
The poor quality of this game is reflected in the general public reception. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the game only ever reached a peak player count of only 3 players. That's right, only 3. This is a pitiful enough 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, the overwhelming lack of interest in the game is remarkable, but also to be expected. This complete and utter rejection of the game from gamers should be a keen information point for anyone considering buying shovelware like this. Gamers just didn't take this seriously, and for good reason.
It's also important to note the "developer" here has connections to a number of shady Russian asset flippers and review manipulators who show an organised pattern to scam and defraud gamers with fake reviews and asset flipping the work of others for profit. While reviews are about the games, gamers should be informed when developers act unethically. Whether these connections are the same developer using multiple accounts, or just working closely with other unethical developers, gamers should be warned about the harm to gamers by this developer and their associates. Buying games from unethical developers puts your money at risk.
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This game features a number of fake positive reviews from accounts known to be in the business of review manipulation/paid reviews. They're all written in either Russian or broken English, appear at almost exactly the same time, very shortly after the game launched on Steam, all have a direct Steam purchase of the game, and the accounts are used consistently to write fake reviews for asset flips and other cash grabs/scams. The "Positive" review score on this game should be disregarded due to this blatant, unethical review manipulation. This is done to deceive and scam gamers into paying for a bad product.
There's also a few "joke" reviews making fun of just how bad this game is... not a surprise, but this further taints the actual review impressions.
Last Day of FEAR has an overly optimistic price of around $4 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product and the unethical background of the "developer", especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam.
