Mr. Mookie and the Runaway Cookie

Steam is drowning in thousands of lazy, low-effort 2D platformers, and "Mr. Mookie and the Runaway Cookie" is yet another one. I'm not kidding, there's over 17,000 platformers on Steam, almost all of them are garbage, amateur kitbashes. This is not one of the good ones. This laughably bad puzzle platformer has an eye watering 100 levels of awful, as you guide a penguin who seriously has his cookie stolen from him 100 times. Platformer challenges extend beyond your normal jumping around to include hanggliders and other gimmicks on some levels, all of which is implemented badly. Maybe if they just worked on one level and spent the rest of the time learning how to do graphics better than pixelcrap they might have hit more than single figure player counts. In the modern era of high quality bleeding edge PC gaming, these kinds of flat, lazy, lackluster platformers just don't cut it. Platforming is a dead genre for a reason. Even though this is "free", it failed to attract any interest for gamers here on Steam Direct for obvious reasons. This comes across as something unambitious and "simple" in terms of implementation and technical quality and depth, more like a game dev tutorial or an experiment. It’s a classic case of a developer prioritizing the low effort needed to get a game listed on Steam over the actual delivery of a technically sound or compelling product. Whatever is needed to hammer out something "good" enough for Steam Direct self-publishing. The amateur pixelcrap visual presentation here at best could have been an attempt to use "retro" as a crutch, a weak excuse to avoid admitting the developer wasn't capable of doing the job of a game developer this decade and creating cutting edge, high quality 3D visuals. While a lack of skill or funding is the explanation for this failure, it's no excuse. The end result of this incompetence is a game that looks dramatically inferior to professionally developed games. Terraria and Undertale succeeded [i]despite[/i] looking crap, not [i]because[/i] they look crap. 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. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 130 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB shows this peaked at [b]only 4 concurrent players[/b]... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? Pass on this one. There's no immediate financial commitment, but there are thousands of more compelling games on the platform that will give you a lot more enjoyment for your time.

great work of art honestly really good tho well worth the play interesting levels with great application of features in game I NEED DLC NOW

This game was truly beautiful and changed my life. There was no better way to spend my Saturday night playing this game and its entirety. Thank you Blair Bros for this masterpiece and this heavenly experience!

Игра "Mr. Mookie and the Runaway Cookie" – это очаровательная и забавная платформер-головоломка. Визуальный стиль выполнен в милом мультяшном стиле, что делает игру приятной для игроков всех возрастов. Геймплей интуитивно понятен, но при этом предлагает интересные и разнообразные задачи, требующие логического мышления и аккуратного планирования. История про Мистера Муки и его сбежавшее печенье очень захватывает, а персонажи запоминающиеся и симпатичные. Уровни хорошо продуманы, сочетая в себе элементы платформинга, головоломок и даже небольших элементов стелса. Несмотря на кажущуюся простоту, игра может бросить вызов даже опытным игрокам. Музыкальное сопровождение отлично дополняет атмосферу игры, создавая ощущение легкости и веселья. "Mr. Mookie and the Runaway Cookie" – это прекрасный выбор для коротких игровых сессий, когда хочется расслабиться и получить удовольствие от хорошо сделанной игры. Определенно рекомендую всем любителям платформеров и головоломок!