"Margo" is a poorly made and completely pointless point and click demo, a short LGBTQIA+ friendly game about a woman, her partner and her friend, who are all characters we have no reason to care about because, well, establishing character isn't important for some authors I guess.
What do you do in the game? Some of the lamest and badly done point and click adventuring ever. The most pleasant aspect of this "game" is taking advantage of the excellent uninstall feature.
So, it's hard to describe this as a game, the focus of the product is more like that of an e-book/visual novel, there's only minor, shallow and uninteresting gameplay elements. The crux of this is to push some very low quality, badly done fan-fiction tier writing, where we see once more a developer fail to understand the importance of "Show, don't tell", and for whatever reason, weren't able to convey their narrative through gameplay, giving us endless lines of badly written e-book text instead. My gaming rig is not a kindle.
The game is quite short, and can be run through in just 30 minutes of mediocrity. The lack of content here makes it hard to suggest it's worth spending the time to add to your library and download.
This looks like an old 1990's Adobe Flash game that you might play in a web browser, and the problem there is obviously Steam wasn't intended to try compete with Chrome and Firefox. If it can be done in a web browser, it's not even close to a cutting edge PC gaming experience. That's a problem.
Visually, this features mediocre hand drawn style "Baby's First Wacom Tablet" art instead of contemporary graphics. This obviously looks better than pixelcrap, but that's a really low bar to barely stumble over. 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 worse than a professionally made game would look, and that's a major deterrent.
Now on to pricing and value for gamers.
This isn't truly free as the developer embarks on some digital panhandling, an eye watering $5 donation they expect you to fork over in exchange for a godawful soundtrack.
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.
Since free games don't contribute to your game collector badge and other profile stuff, is this a worthwhile addition to your Steam library?
Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.
