"Madness of the Architect" looks a lot like one of those Russian Unity asset flips with a haunted house/dungeon and jumpscares. But it's not! See, the developers credited the asset creators whose assets they used. Yeah, it's very rare when an amateur developer does the right thing. Unfortunately in this case, the resulting product is indistinguishable in quality from a Russian Unity asset flip with a haunted house/dungeon and jumpscares.
This feels a lot like some kids homework project, and when he turned it in, not only did he get an F, the teacher flunked him from the course, and he was held back a year. I'm not sure there's any other, better way to describe just how badly made this garbage is. The developer wants to be paid real money for this, by the way. Don't laugh, it's true, they think this is worth actual money.
From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.
The game features lazy low-polygon "retro" assets, making this look like a barely functional 3D game from the 1990s. It's unclear why the developers weren't able to arrange high quality, high polygon count contemporary assets for the game, and also irrelevant... what matters is that this looks bad as a result of their decisions, a compromise PC gamers shouldn't have to put up with.
The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers, left handed gamers or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 3 players. This is a remarkably low 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 and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.
"Madness of the Architect" is relatively cheap at $3 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. This is also competing with over 9,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.
