NanoWar: Cells VS Virus

"NanoWar: Cells VS Virus" is, despite the flowery store description that you should not be mislead by, a ripoff of Galcon (copyright Phil Hassey, 1995). Often lazy mobile devs with steal the intellectual property and copyrighted game mechanics from real developers for profit, but I guess they forgot that part (or intend to add monetisation later if their infringing game goes viral). And if you don't believe me about game mechanics being covered by copyright, ask Xio Interactive what they think after Tetris Holdings LLC ripped them a new one in court for making a Tetris ripoff. In case you're not familiar with Galcon, it's a frequently ripped off game concept where you and the AI fight over a mesh of nodes. Each node produces "troops" represented by a single number. You send your troops between nodes, and whichever numbers are highest determines who controls the nodes. A simple and quickly shallow and repetitive game concept. You can see why mobile devs love to steal the concept from Phil so much. To date, Phil Hassey hasn't take any legal action against this copyright infringment, but it's never off the cards. 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. This is "free" enough, at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 3 concurrent players... 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? Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.