Mirrorscape

[quote][b]Warning: Third Party Account[/b] This game requires you to create a third party "Mirrorscape" account... there's no valid reason for this in a PC game when SteamWorks is available. This is often done to harvest private data and profile you, with potential sale and transmission of your private data to third parties. The developers will probably argue that you can trust them, but if they were trustworthy they wouldn't demand you create a third party account. This represents a considerable risk to gamers due to the privacy and security implications of developers that wish to bypass Steam and harvest user data. Remember, sometimes if the product is free, YOU are the product.[/quote] [quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop][b]Warning: AI Slop[/b][/url] The developer used talentless, offensive AI slop for peripheral marketing materials.[/quote] [quote][b][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtransaction]Warning: In-App Cash Shop[/url][/b] This app is infested with a toxic mobile app style cash shop. You will be prompted to and expected to give money/credit card details to the developers through this cash shop to unlock features of the application.[/quote] "Mirrorscape" is not a game. Games contain meaningful gamelike interaction and game loops, which are absent in this software. Instead of being a game, "Mirrorscape" is a software application that a ripoff of Roll20 made for mobile phones, and it's NOT FREE... the developer of this application seeks to mislead gamers by publishing this in the free section, but it's heavily paygated, there's an eye watering $60 USD worth of paygated content (for a mobile app!!!!!!) and that's before the toxic cash shop. This is a nasty cash grab and should be avoided on grounds of ethics alone.. To clarify why this isn't a game in more precise terms, a "game loop" is the core cycle of interaction and feedback between a player and the game itself, and this garbage doesn't have one. Here's an example of a game loop. In Dark Souls, you explore an area, encounter an enemy, fight that enemy and if the computer lets you survive, you repeat that loop with the computer providing you with new enemies. Another example is Candy Crush (while mobile games are awful, they are still games where this isn't), where you rearrange your gems and if you create a match, they're eliminated, you get rewarded, and then the game provides you with more gems to match to repeat the process. There's no loop here, no true interactive game-like feedback. It simply is not a game, it cannot be "played". This was incorrectly dumped into the "Games" section instead of the "Software" section. We can just guess this is because the developer has no idea what they are doing and just tried to shove their app down gamers throats without considering doing the right thing... once more a developer putting his own needs before that of gamers. There's a correct process for publishing games which the developer has either deliberately or incompetently not followed: [url=https://help.steampowered.com/en/wizard/HelpWithPublishing?issueid=925]Steam Developer Help With Software Publishing[/url] It's unfortunate this process was not known about/followed, resulting in a software application being published in the wrong place. When developers publish things that obviously are not games as if they are games, it pollutes the marketplace and makes it harder to find real, genuinely made games from game developers who did the right thing. This kind of store pollution makes it harder for gamers to find those genuinely games. It's bad for everyone. This lacks any gameplay or meaningful interaction, it's a software app, not a game. Because we're here in the games section of Steam, looking for games, I have to warn gamers away from this incorrectly published software. You can always judge a product by how popular it is with the general public. Steam has over 130 million unique gamers, and over 40 million unique logons every day from dedicated PC gamers. But this only ever had a peak user count of a dozen or so people... that's very poor public reception. Gamers rejected this, most likely due to the reasons I supply in this review.

Игра Mirrorscape – это глоток свежего воздуха в мире мобильных AR-игр. Концепция, позволяющая интегрировать виртуальные квесты и головоломки непосредственно в реальный мир, захватывает с первых минут. Особенно впечатляет реализация AR: объекты органично вписываются в окружающую обстановку, а взаимодействие с ними интуитивно понятно. Разнообразие заданий – еще один плюс. Здесь и решение головоломок, требующих внимательности к деталям, и исследование локаций в поисках скрытых подсказок, и даже элементы экшена. Правда, иногда сложность головоломок кажется завышенной, что может вызвать некоторое разочарование. Несмотря на пару шероховатостей, проект предлагает уникальный опыт, который сложно найти в других мобильных играх. Если вы ищете что-то новое и увлекательное, что позволит по-новому взглянуть на мир вокруг, Mirrorscape – отличный выбор. С нетерпением жду дальнейшего развития проекта и новых обновлений.

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The program is free, but there is not free assets or community assets. You NEED to buy game content.. The interface is quite strange, both the program's and the website's. I tried searching for groups, but the page returns an error and doesn't display them.