"LEZ" is best described as Guitar Hero without the guitars or decent music. Or graphics. Or controllers. If that sounds boring as all hell, then you just found LEZ, a pointless project in development hell.
The developers last touched this 3 months ago. There's no reason to believe it will never be completed. This unfinished game is just polluting Steam and making it harder for gamers to find genuinely, completely made games.
This game features very lacklustre minimalist "art" for graphics instead of anything remotely contemporary. I'm sure the "developer" thought this would come across as "artistic", but it doesn't, it comes across as "really lazy". Yes, contemporary 3D graphics take a lot of time and effort to create. That doesn't mean it's okay not to bother! Developers must try to understand that gaming is a visual medium, and gamers spend a lot of money on high end gaming rigs for a reason. And that reason is not so they can look at lazy, phoned-in half efforts like this.
You're forced to sign a highly questionable yet legally unenforceable End User License Agreement... for such a relatively low effort, low quality product, this comes across more as a delusion of grandeur than anything else. This agreement includes questionable requirements that may attempt to revoke consumer law protections that gamers expect to have, which is also highly problematic. Developers must learn they are here to serve gamers, not control them. I had my cat walk over the keyboard while the EULA was displaying, which fixed that problem for me.
This is only free in a rudimentary sense... the developer has their hand out for a $2 USD "donation" for this as you're expected to buy soundtrack DLC from Steam to "support" the "developer"... digital panhandling. Like the homeless guys who splash dirty water on your windscreen at the traffic lights. No thanks.
Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 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?
Nope. This isn't worth downloading. While this didn't cost me any money up front, I still feel ripped off.
[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 breaches Valve guidelines to deliver a whole bunch of BS intended to mislead gamers for profit. It's BS and here's why.
The developer acknowledges they're doing the wrong thing by pushing unfinished software on Steam... Putting a due date FIVE YEARS after Early Access launch is a complete joke... under no circumstances should any game be published 5 years before the developers committment to deliver the software. This is quite simply abusing Early Access, in a manner that's harmful to gamers and to genuine developers who do the right thing. This is not okay, yet the developer has no problem with this abuse. Toxic.
Apparently the developer has no time to work on this game but has all the time in the world to pore over game reviews and push completely misleading and dishonest responses directly against Valve's guidelines. You can see what's really going on here.
The developer acknowledges the visual style is unacceptable but offers no solution; the game is unsuitable for publication, once more the developer persists in doing the wrong thing, on purpose, for profit.
The developer tries to justify a toxic and harmful EULA on a garbage product and has the [i]audacity[/i] to tell outright lies about how the damaging portions of the EULA seeking to strip gamers of their legal rights is somehow intended to "protect" them. What complete and utter BS. The developer once more does the wrong thing, on purpose, for profit. Toxic.
The developer lies; He genuinely expects us to believe when he put FOR-PROFIT "DLC" on this product, he expected [i]nobody[/i] to give him money. You don't put something up for sale on Steam unless you expect or want sales. Why the developer chooses to be dishonest in the face of basic reason is not a mystery, we've already established a pattern. The developer, doing the wrong thing, on purpose, for profit.
The developer lies; this utter failure of a game is a function of his incompetence and inability to develop games of professional standard. Another BS claim that this was a failure because of a "lack of marketing". The lies never stop.
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 failed game to anyone.
