Lichtreich: Willa

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"Lichtreich: Willa" is a bit of a train wreck... it's a badly written RPG Maker asset flip, except the developer couldn't work out how to make a JRPG with RPG Maker, so all you get is some weird, lame hide and seek game where you have to find some people. This is bad even for an RPG Maker asset flip. This features really godawful, lazy pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks bad because of that decision, and that's a major deterrent to gamers. Games like Terraria and Stardew Valley succeeded [i]despite[/i] the bad graphics, not because of them. And unfortunately that's about all RPG Maker is capable of. Of course the "developer" did add some of their own "art"... that looks to have been made with MS-Paint. Amazing they could come up with something that looks worse than the stock RPG Maker pixelcrap they used to make most of this game. This is "free" enough, at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 2 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. 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.