Mermaid Land

https://youtu.be/h96idMqhDCE With no progress of mechanics this match-3 game shows it all it has to offer in the first level and does little to drive players to continue through more.

Mermaid Land is a mobile app like match-3 game that's been dumped on Steam as shovelware/pollution. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics. 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. This looks and feels like a mobile app, but I wasn't able to find it on the app stores. Maybe it was removed, maybe it was rejected by Apple and Google (they do have more rigorous quality standards than Valve does for Steam, after all). Regardless, for all intents and purposes this is a mobile app, it has the same limitations and dumbed down qualities. It's impossible to recommend such a game to PC gamers. We don't spend all this money building gaming rigs so we can pretend they're iPhones. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. Wisely, the developers removed this from the store, realising that they had dumped mobile app garbage on Steam and that was a bad thing to do. This had the result of slightly improving the quality of all video games everywhere.