Microtopia: Prologue

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I mean I love factory automation games, but for some reason my ultrawide monitor (5120 x 1440) just didn't work with this game. I've been dying to play it, but cannot. Still, I'll give this a positive review, as it would be unfair otherwise (as this looks good anyway). Changed my mind. It seems others have had this issue for over a year now... This is turning negative now.. Edit… After buying the game recently on sale, I realised the resolution has been fixed on the full release. The game plays exceptionally well! It’s an absolute joy to behold.

This game is so cool! No hand holding, no time limits, no terrible graphics.

A new take on automation games!

"Microtopia: Prologue" is is [b]not a game[/b]. It's an advertisement disguised as a full game, and you're expected to go pay for [b]"Microtopia"[/b] after seeing this advert for it. This is misleading, a shady way to market a for-profit product, and misleading gamers for profit is wrong. The product this is advertising,[i]Microtopia: Prologue[/i] is the weakest ripoff of SimAnt you ever saw, with robot ants(???) instead of real ants, and ironically it's a game with a slew of game breaking bugs (geddit, bugs, ants, ha). Just like SimAnt, you manage the ant colony and ask why they didn't just make a new SimAnt instead of all these really weak ripoffs. At least there's a factory building element... but yeah... SimAnt was still better than MicroTopia. But this isn't that product, it's just an ad for it. If you really like adverts, you can get them for free on Youtube, in your browser... heck even online streaming video subscriptions have ads now. Why download and install another advertisement? Valve provides a specific way to handle demos, free trials and advertisments. It is clearly outlined in the [url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos]Steamworks Documentation for creating Demos[/url]... something I would say is mandatory reading before anyone thinks about abusing Steam Direct. This "developer" either didn't responsibly try to understand Steam, or worse, deliberately and wilfully chose to ignore the correct process just to pollute Steam with for-profit advertising. Either way, this is unprofessional and bad for gamers, and here we are, looking at an advert. The purpose of this advertisement is to get you to shell out a whopping $20 USD on buying Microtopia, and I don't recommend you do that either. Let's talk about price and the value this represents for us 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 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 just a dozen or so concurrent players, and now there's basically nobody playing it. Even though it's free, that was a dismal public reception. But if you take into account the problems I bring up in this review, it's easy to see why gamers rejected it. 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.

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