Naturalist Stories

Отличная идея! Но технически это пре-альфа: - не вылетела она у меня с 6 попытки; - согласилась запуститься только в оконном режиме, с низкими настройками, которые только из меню перевыставить можно; - движения все дерганные, персонажа "уносит" после остановки в сторону, в целом очень не отзывчивое управление; - через больше количество предметов проваливаемся; - поездка на машине после выхода из дома - лучше бы ее не было, она реализована хуже чем в играх конца 90х; - нет нормальной карты и ориентировки на местности; - часть не переведено; - очень большие проблемы с тенями и бликами; - в целом неаккуратность в расположении объектов и в выборе их - грибы торчат из деревьев, когда должны расти исключительно на земле, в доме стоят растения, которые должны выглядеть по-другому (монстера в горшочке размером с чашку) и т.п. Это было бы простительно для любой другой игры, но не для той, которая претендует на симулятор "зоолога-фотографа". К сожалению, пока возврат - играть в нее невозможно сейчас. С надеждой на исправления и с уважением, Ваш Хоботков У.Г.

[b][quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_flip]Warning: Asset Flip![/url][/quote][/b]Naturalist Stories is a Digital Homicide style asset flip, or what Valve calls a "Fake Game". The Russian "developer" paid for/pirated a few Unity asset store packs, dumped them all in a blender, and submitted it to Valve as if they're real game developers. 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. This asset flip is a very basic first person "adventure" game where you move around some (badly) asset flipped environments and click on stuff. It's extremely badly done, incomplete, it's just garbage, and only exists on Steam as a cash grab to try scam gamers out of some roubles. The game was abandoned roughly one year after launch and hasn't been updated in three years. It blew past the developers commitment to complete the game without any notification or admission of failure from the developer. The game will never be completed. The poor quality of this game is 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 2 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 game is to be expected. Unethically, the developer sold keys to this abandoned Early Access game into cheap, nasty game bundles, where they knew it would be advertised and sold as a complete PC game. This seems to have been done in an attempt to mislead gamers into buying a knowingly faulty, defective and incomplete product. When a developer does this for a game they have zero practical intention of completing, this is essentially a scam, an intention to get paid for a broken/unfinished product. Often this is done as an exit strategy, as the developer takes the money and runs. No refunds have been given, the developer kept all the money they took from gamers. Another unethical act of this developer, knowing full well that this game is abandoned and they will never complete it, they are deliberately trying to scam gamers into buying it by offering it on discount from time to time. It's impossible to "accidentally" discount a game. The developer looked at their abandoned game, and instead of doing the right thing and removing it from Steam, they instead doubled-down and tried to scam even more people into paying for it. Greedy, and completely unethical. Doing the wrong thing, on purpose, for money. This is not okay. Naturalist Stories has the preposterous price of $10 USD, for which you could easily get any number of older AAA games. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, and the questionable ethical nature of the developer and/or their associates (as outlined above), this is impossible to recommend. For comparison, the $10 asking price for this game could get you games like "Mass Effect Trilogy Pack", "Cities: Skylines" or "Dead by Daylight". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this. There's also thousands of free, superior quality games on Steam. [quote][b][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/profile]Profile Features Limited![/url][/b] Valve have marked this game as "Profile Features Limited" at the time of this review. This is usually caused by poor sales figures and low community acceptance for the game (to date). Until this status changes, this game will not give you +1 to your Game Collector badge count, appear in profile achievements or any other Steam meta-accomplishments, nor can it be displayed in some profile showcases. If these factors are important to you, it may be worth holding off before buying this game.[/quote]