Medusa's Heart of Stone Chapter 01

"Medusa's Heart of Stone Chapter 01" is is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "Medusa's Heart of Stone". Medusa's Heart of Stone is a poorly made and abandoned 2D adventure game about the developers imaginary greek girlfriend... this demo shows the game was headed to being a massive flop, full of bugs, some sections not working, sloppy combat, sluggish movement, and and otherwise very weak technical implementation propping up an even weaker overall game design. If they ever made it, it would have been a disappointment, but this advertisement flopping hard on Steam probably caused the developer to give up and abandon the concept. It's unclear why this advertisement for a product that will never be made lingers on Steam, but it's not doing anyone any favours... genuine developers who do the right thing have to compete with this pollution to find an audience. But this isn't completely relevant because this is not Medusa's Heart of Stone, 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 "Medusa's Heart of Stone Chapter 01" too. Usually the purpose of these advertisements is to get you to shell out money to the developer to buy the full product, but the developer hasn't bothered actually making a product you can buy, leaving this as an advertisement for nothing. We must question what value this pointless advertising has for gamers... and the answer is "none". Due to the poor public response amongst gamers for this advertisement, it seems unlikely the developer will go on to make the full product. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. 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 inocuous 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. In terms of public reception, this failed. There's over 130 million unique gamers visiting Steam every month. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 4 concurrent players trying out this advertisement... 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.

This game is highly underrated with such a beautiful art style and entertaining story!

Very cool game. I like the art and the story. The controls are simple, even though I had some problems to beat the soldiers (but after a few times I managed to do it). I am looking forward to play the next chapters.

i love this game and the character designs are so good and i just love em alskdjfa;djfalksdjf;. the oracle and medusa for life.

Medusa laser eye does not work, am killed by the first enemy no matter what I try

The art is so good man!

Honestamente, não é TÃO ruim. Mas as batalhas são intragáveis, é uma pena porque estraga toda a gameplay