Mushroom Musical

Mushroom Musical is one of literally thousands of retro 2D platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere... and I'm not kidding. Searching for "platformers" on the Steam store page yields over 17,000 results! Is this one of the best of those? Absolutely not. This is a very badly made 2D platformer with a rhythm element and while the graphics may make this appear family friendly, it's too frustrating, clunky and badly made for it to be enjoyable for kids. Platforming is an old, mostly dead genre, and this lacklustre experience, while it doesn't have an upfront cost, isn't saving the genre... it's no surprise this failed to capture any attention from gamers in the era of immersive 3D gaming. The game features really lacklustre 2D visuals (does the developer not know 3D graphics became mainstream in the mid-1990s?). Gamers don't spend thousands of dollars on gaming rigs and the latest 3D graphics cards to play 2D games. Even mobile phones and game consoles can do 3D graphics now. There's no excuse. It's free... now, but it wasn't before. The developer was charging $3 USD for this. Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It's a nice gesture for the game to be given away for free, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product. It's also a bit of a slap in the face to anyone who paid money for this... nobody got refunded. 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 game all-time peak user count was only ONE person. That's right, only one person ever used this at a time. When I tried this for the purposes of reviewing it, I equalled the peak user count for the product. OUCH. The only user 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 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality product is to be expected. 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? Nope. This isn't worth downloading. There's no financial cost up-front, but you'd still be spending your time and a little hard drive space on a product that's far from the best. There's thousands of better alternatives on Steam.

Harder Than Dark Soul Boss Battles.

This game has cute visuals and music...But you only get 1 hit point and no check points anywhere. This is not a game for kids, anybody who does not have platforming experience will be very likely left frustrated. And that's my opinion BEFORE I discovered a "hard" difficulty option in the "extra" settings. If you like difficult platformers that reset you back to the very beginning of the (relatively short but obstacle-filled) level when you fail, this is the game for you. There's no shooting or collecting anything, it's just very very basic platforming but the game does vary the obstacles and atmosphere pretty frequently; the ambiance changes in each "world" and the obstacles are different in pretty much any level. The hurtbox locations are usually self-explanatory but FYI the swordfish only has its nose as the dangerous point.

*boop*

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already beat the game, good concept and challenging gameplay.. I hope there will be workshop for this game..

this game has really inspired me and tickled my balls Love it!