Medieval Machines Builder - First Siege

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very fun demo will get full game in time

Mostly like the Demo except for a small mission which is rather a little annoying, but still kind of fun. The german translation though is pretty bad, but not so bad that i didnt know what to do. All in one a pretty cool Prologue. I can recommend it.

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"Medieval Machines Builder - First Siege" is is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "Medieval Machines Builder". Medieval Machines Builder is yet another partially asset flipped, 100% Unity kitbashed job simulator from Playway S.A. in Poland, once more giving Russian asset flippers a run for their money. Like all Playway S.A. games, it's the result of piling game assets on a generic "tycoon" job simulator game blueprint... they've shoved a variety of thin skins on the same game templates endlessly, and have produced hundreds of incredibly shallow kitbashes of very little value onto Steam, just like "Medieval Machines Builder". But this isn't completely relevant because this is not Medieval Machines Builder, it's just an advertisment for it, so it's not correct to try to review that completely distinct product. We must instead review this for what it is... an advertisement. If you enjoy advertisements, you can consume them for free on the web or on Youtube without needing to add them to your game library, download them, and then launch the advertising. It's impossible in a general sense to recommend people should do that over playing real, full games on Steam, and that applies here with "Medieval Machines Builder - First Siege" too. There's a correct process to publish game demos and advertisements like this on Steam. You can see it in [url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos]Valve's Steamworks Documentation for Demos[/url] but either the "developer" didn't know about that (something they absolutely should before they even touch Steam Direct), or they deliberately and willfully bypassed this process to mislead gamers, for profit. Either is not okay. The purpose of this advertisement is to get you to shell out a whopping $12 USD on buying Medieval Machines Builder, and I don't recommend you do that either. Now onto pricing and value. As an advertisement, this is only free in the same way that adverts on Youtube and banner ads in your browser are. This is a game demo that's been dumped on Steam to advertise another Steam store page in the hopes of raking in some cash. Just because advertisements are free, doesn't mean they're worth your time. It's important to understand there's a formal process to create a demo/page for a game which hasn't been followed here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos While it might seem like an innocuous mistake, publishing demos and advertisements as if they are full games is misleading and in some ways harmful. This advertisement is taking up marketing space and visibility that would be better made available to a developer that's done the right thing and created a full game. Instead, that visibility is given over to a demo/advert that's been published incorrectly and is polluting the marketplace. It's unclear if this mistake was made through incompetence or a deliberate intent to mislead gamers. Often developers may choose to incorrectly publish demo/advertisements as separate games as a cheap way to bypass paying Valve for marketing presence on the Steam front page, which may seem clever to them, but it's harmful behaviour and it's not good for gamers. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 130 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB shows this peaked at [b]only 14 concurrent players[/b]... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Advertisements and incorrectly published demos don't add +1 to your game collector count, they aren't full games. It's impossible for me to recommend this incorrectly published advertising spam to gamers, you deserve better than adverts. Finally, I'm here to help save gamers time by filtering out the noise and substandard games. If you don't agree with my assessment of the defects in this game, go ahead and download it... maybe you'll find the same defects to be as unacceptable as I did, maybe not. Even write your own review. Positive or negative, game reviews are here to help other gamers by informing their decisions on what to spend their time on.