Millivolt

Great little puzzle platformer to play with a very handsome robot

"Millivolt" is what looks like a student project, a simple third person console-esque puzzle platformer where you control a robot and go around solving puzzles in this short and somewhat unambitious Steam Direct entry. What do you do in the game? Run around inside what's supposed to be a microwave and solve a few simple puzzles. The graphics aren't great, somewhat low quality assets with a spartan, uninspiring background that looks nothing like the inside of a microwave. That's understandably a turn off for a lot of gamers, and it's a big contributor to the failure of the game to attract gamers despite having no up-front cost. Gaming is a primarily visual medium, and if developers want to succeed, they must understand that it's not an area for compromise. You deserve better than compromises. Insultingly, the developer insists that you should play this with a console peasant children's toy gamepad instead of KB+M. Developers should try to be aware which platform they're designing games for. It's the responsibility of the developer to ensure the game runs well on the platform they're selling it on, with the primary peripherals that PC gamers use. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. Most "free" games on Steam aren't really free. There's usually some kind of monetisation, from nasty mobile app cash shops, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, to any other number of shady pricing schemes that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming industry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable, or something you might want to spend your time on. 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 8 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Given that this free title won't increase your game collector count, is it worth your time to add it to your library? This is a "maybe" experience... if you have a lot of free time on your hands and nothing else to do, why not? But for the purposes of a review, this isn't something I can say everyone must try. It's not quite there. Valve doesn't give us a "maybe" option in reviews, but if they did, that's what I'd choose for this.

One of the people who made this game insulted my intelligence the whole time they watched me play. Fun little time, I recommend it.

A small nice game, took like 15 minutes to complete. The camera sensitivity is very slow on a controller (xbox controller at least) also is can be a little weird at times, and it will probably run on a fast potato pc. It is worth the space and time.

Short, sweet, interesting. Thought it'd be a bit longer but I can't complain.

fun short free game

peak game spent 2 hours speedrunning the game just for my friend to beat my time first try (best i got is 5:21)