[quote][b][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_flip]Warning: Asset Flip![/url][/b]
Money Theft 3 Last Mission is a Digital Homicide style asset flip, or what Valve calls a "Fake Game". The "developer" paid for/pirated a few Unity asset store assets, dumped them all in a blender, and submitted it to Valve as if they're real game developers.[/quote]
[quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop][b]Warning: AI Slop[/b][/url]
This game is partially or completely made with talentless, soulless AI generated content.[/quote]
Two notable criteria for what makes an asset flip instead of legitimate use of stock assets are whether those assets comprise the majority of the game, and whether the "developer" properly credited the people who created most of the assets in the game. This game fails both of those tests. The "developers" here didn't credit any of the artists and real, actual game developers who created the assets here, so this is plagiarism, as well as cash grab shovelware.
In this case, the asset flipper took a bunch of assets from Unreal/FAB, dumped them on a poor quality third person shooter blueprint, and dumped it in an incomplete and broken state on Steam Direct... another scam to try get YOUR money for someone else's game assets. [b]Nothing in this asset flip is the creation of Tero Lunkka.[/b] It has no value or merit as a real game.
Here are some of the stolen/plagiarized assets in this garbage, as proof:
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[*][url=https://www.fab.com/listings/cbd2c606-d0d1-4a0f-854b-b13ced4a68da]"1850s Post Office Environment"[/url] from JustB Studios
[*][url=https://www.fab.com/listings/0faf8b5d-7a5f-4fee-a297-7a8efaba8896]"Downtown West Modular Pack"[/url] from PurePolygons
[*][url=https://www.fab.com/listings/d1c31555-3d28-4acc-9cd3-3e6569c510c5]"Miami Night and Day City Pack"[/url] from CrescentDialGames
[*][url=https://www.fab.com/listings/0a9146df-599a-49ff-ab1b-f71ab02b7979]"Race Track Construction Kit"[/url] from CGStuff Studios
[*][url=https://www.fab.com/listings/fe1f6c26-7d8d-4912-b600-920bd74cbc4e]"Race Track Kit Pack 1"[/url] from GameAssetFactory
[*][url=https://www.fab.com/listings/f20ba4fb-bf9b-44a8-8293-8bb8a5484e63]"Space Colonies: Other Planets"[/url] from GeorgeShachnev
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So you can see what Tero has done here and how these scams operate.
Tero Lunkka/Valkeala Software have shown a repeat pattern of unethically dumping other people's work onto Steam as a cheap, nasty cash grab. Here's some examples so you can see for yourself:
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[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/581200]Nash Racing[/url]" = [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fSw1DLRnQE]Advanced Tuning Cars[/url]
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/713580]Nash Racing 2[/url]" = [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fSw1DLRnQE]Advanced Tuning Cars[/url]
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/4404370]Nash Racing Pursuit 2[/url]" = [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fSw1DLRnQE]Advanced Tuning Cars[/url]
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/989340]Aliens Dont Exist[/url]" = [url=https://craftpix.net/freebies/2d-game-alien-character-free-sprite/]Alien Character - Free Sprite[/url]
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/4299850]Lawnmower Game 2026[/url]" = [url=https://www.fab.com/listings/fd558d8c-bd7e-461f-8449-a7cc9c277078?lang=fr]Assetsville Town[/url]
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/768060]The Warrior Of Treasures[/url]" = [url=https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/dynamic-combat-system]Dynamic Combat System[/url]
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1639090]Survival Isolation[/url]" = [url=https://www.fab.com/listings/bc8e1ee8-5b82-40df-ad2c-226524ca6253]Easy Survival RPG[/url]
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/4787850]Sad Virus Up & Up[/url]" = [url=https://www.fab.com/listings/e9e82b5c-b865-4f9e-9df1-17bde8eaea72]Island Challenge Game[/url]
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/3046850]Candy Golf[/url]" = [url=https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/mini-golf-template]Mini Golf Template[/url]
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1776540]Lawnmower Game: Pinball[/url]" = [url=https://github.com/freezy/pinball-construction-kit]Pinball Construction Kit[/url]
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1643280]Fancy the Frog[/url]" = [url=https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/2d/characters/pixel-adventure-1-155360]Pixel Adventure 1[/url]
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/2975920]Candy Puzzle[/url]" = [url=https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/platformer-3-chocolate]Platformer 3 - Chocolate[/url]
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/2765350]Lost Princess City[/url]" = [url=https://www.fab.com/listings/d38cfdd2-8dcf-4dd8-b9d4-83663129bb02]POLYGON - City Pack[/url]
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/3966080]Sad Virus Town[/url]" = [url=https://www.fab.com/listings/d38cfdd2-8dcf-4dd8-b9d4-83663129bb02]POLYGON - City Pack[/url]
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/3397580]Trump Cake Mania[/url]" = [url=https://www.fab.com/listings/d38cfdd2-8dcf-4dd8-b9d4-83663129bb02]POLYGON - City Pack[/url]
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Taking this shovelware seriously as if it was a genuine attempt to make a game, it doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. It's incomplete, barely working junk... assets placed around in ways that don't even make sense. Not a real game.
The poor quality of this game 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 [b]only 3 players[/b]. Worse, these weren't real players, they were the Russian review farm accounts that Tero paid to write reviews for the game.
[quote][b][url=https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/federal-register-notices/16-cfr-part-465-trade-regulation-rule-use-consumer-reviews-testimonials-final-rule]Warning: Review Manipulation![/url][/b]
This game features a number of fake positive reviews from accounts known to be in the business of review manipulation/paid reviews. They're all written in either Russian, broken English or ChatGPT AI slop, appear at almost exactly the same time, very shortly after the game launched on Steam, all have a direct Steam purchase of the game, and the accounts are used consistently to write fake reviews for asset flips and other cash grabs/scams. The "Positive" review score on this game should be disregarded due to this blatant, unethical review manipulation. This is done to deceive and scam gamers into paying for a bad product.
Due to the 2024 FTC ruling (16 CFR § 465.4, 15 U.S.C. § 45), these fake reviews are a violation of US Federal Law.[/quote]
This kind of asset flipping isn't harmless. It makes it harder for gamers to find genuinely made games from ethical developers. It makes it harder for genuine indie developers, who put hard work into trying to make real games, to find an audience for their products. It gives indie developers a bad name.
Let's talk about price and what this asset flip is actually worth. Is this significantly better than any of the 175,000+ genuinely made games on Steam? Of course not!
Money Theft 3 Last Mission has the far too high price of around $5 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the unethical nature of the developer.
The quality problems and defects with this game makes the asking price totally unrealistic. It's impossible to recommend this to gamers here on Steam, especially considering the unethical stuff going on. Because this is just a fake game/cash grab scam, don't reward this morally bankrupt, unethical behaviour from Tero Lunkka.
The use of AI slop is a direct insult to gamers and real, ethical content creators and artists everywhere.
