Mission Ammunition

Mission Ammunition is a mobile app that's been dumped on Steam as a cash grab by the greedy mobile devs at Quantized Bit, who also enjoy breaching Valve guidelines for developers to attack reviewers so they don't have to accept the dismal truth about their awful, failed mobile apps. This one is yet another of literally thousands of 2D retro pixel platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. It's basically a copy + paste of their other unsuccessful mobile app that they also dumped on Steam (yes, another cash grab from mobile devs), Prison Run and Gun. It's exactly the same game really, with a badly mangled English translation from badly written Polish blurb, some of the laziest crap pixel "art" I've seen in a long while, and pretty mediocre gameplay with an emphasis on shooting, but there's a bit of puzzle platforming and other game elements. Heck, if these guys were real developers instead of just mobile app pushers, and they hired some artists, maybe they could one day come up with a real game PC gamers would enjoy. I guess they prefer to attack their paying customers instead of trying to fix the faults in their defective mobile apps. Ultimately the mobile app just isn't fun, and most of that is simply because it is a mobile app and the graphics are awful. But, as usual, we'll go over the technical defects specific to this mobile app to help gamers see why they shouldn't waste money on crap mobile apps like this on Steam. From a technical perspective, as a mobile app, this doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. While there are options to change the resolution for the mobile app, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the mobile app, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the lacklustre 2D visuals. To make matters worse, there's no mouse input, despite this being sold on PC as if it were a PC game. This is unacceptable and somewhat insulting to PC gamers. It's a good demonstration of the poor attitude the developer has towards PC gamers, and this attitude has resulted in yet another defect in this mobile app. Because this is a mobile app, it carries a number of deliberate design deficiencies. Compromises were made to cater to the iPhones that the mobile app was designed for. These are unfortunate handicaps and limitations that PC gamers shouldn't be forced to accept, but it's evident that PC was an afterthought for the iPhone developers who are to blame for this. It's worth noting the game was removed from Google Play, the app store it was designed for. It's unclear why, but my guess is either because of some action from the developer (look at their review responses, you can see how argumentative they are), or possibly just because Google has quality control where Valve doesn't, so they removed the mobile app for being crap. The mobile app is deficient as a result of these choices, and would have been so much better without the handicaps that designing games for mobile phones forces upon a game. Once more, mobile devs have made gaming worse for everyone. I didn't spend thousands on building a gaming rig just so I could pretend it's an iPhone. These technical defects push this mobile app below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. Mission Ammunition didn't appeal much to the people who own a copy of the mobile app, either. It has achievements, and they show us a very clear picture that the mobile app didn't really capture any interest from gamers. The most commonly and easily attained achievement is for collecting a "print" pickup in the game, trivial to get, but less than 39 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling the mobile app. Hardly a success story, gamers just weren't all that interested in the mobile app. The poor quality of this mobile app is also reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 9 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from (over 9,000 completely free titles), the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality mobile app is to be expected. Once more we see greedy mobile devs trying to scam PC gamers. On Steam, this is $5 USD, on app stores, it was $3 before Google kicked them off. Mobile devs must learn PC gamers are not here to be gouged, and can't be expected to pay a almost twice as much for a cheap mobile game just because it's been lazily dumped on Steam. This is unacceptable disrespect for PC gamers. Because this is a mobile app, is priced to insult and gouge PC gamers, and because of the other defects, it's impossible to recommend. Just who do they think we are? [quote][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/reviews]Developer Response![/url][/quote]The developer has weighed in to inform everyone they didn't read the [url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/reviews]Developer Usage Rules[/url] for Steam "partners", or they deliberately ignored the part where Valve says: [quote]Though it may be tempting, not every review needs to be responded to. A developer response will frequently draw more attention than the original statement, potentially turning a small issue into a much larger community discussion. It's also not a good idea to use this feature to refute customer opinions. Your direct attention can be seen as validation or a defensive attempt to silence your customers.[/quote] The developer once more breaches Valve guidelines simply to attack a reviewer instead of acknowledging the many defects I highlighted in my review. Indeed they fail to address the fact they dumped mobile garbage onto Steam, or any of the other defects I highlighted apart from the obvious fact they couldn't afford anyone with enough talent to do better than MS-Paint pixel "art"... the sheer laziness and arrogance from this developer is appalling. The developer accuses me of being a troll, this is of course completely untrue and a straightforward personal attack simply because they couldn't mentally come to terms with the objective truth that they dumped a garbage pixel mobile app onto Steam and that gamers hate that crap (see above for the SteamDB numbers... facts that cannot be denied, or deflected by attacking reviewers). It's not just me... gamers on Steam overwhelmingly rejected the game by simply [i]not buying or playing it[/i]. Why? Because of all the objectively proven defects I raised in my review, which the developer now attacks me for. The "developer" argues that I review a lot of games, therefore this game review isn't valid or truthful. Huh. If I changed all my other reviews to positive, would the graphics and gameplay of this crap game suddenly improve? No. The developer seeks any possible angle to throw shade at me personally to discredit my review. You can see what they are trying to do. If this was the only review I have ever written, would that change any of the properties of this game or alter the facts contained in my review? Of course not. [b]My reviews for other games have no bearing on the dismal quality of this failed product[/b]. Nothing in the developers pointless breach of Valve guidelines changes any of the objective facts of my review. My review stands unaltered. I can't recommend this mobile app to anyone.