"Neeron: The Blade of Nature" is a fairly basic collection of assets arranged into a third person brawler, one of many hundreds, if not thousands of these glutting Steam. The "developer" got their hands on a few 3D asset store packs and models, arranged them haphazardly in a first person adventure game template, and submitted it to Valve as if they're real game developers.
An example of some of the stolen assets can be found in the [url=https://www.fab.com/listings/be0d1014-cd06-4fc8-a442-b107ee75b81f]"Animals Warrior Pack"[/url] created by real developer, Bugrimov Maksim. But the developer of this game wants you to think Bugrimov Maksim's work is really his own... plagiarism is unethical. It's not hard to create a credits page. The developer here deliberately and unethically chose not to.
The only thing that prevents this from being classified as an asset flip is the developer isn't trying to cash in on the uncredited use of other people's assets by arranging them with as little effort as possible into a minimum viable product. However, the quality here is indistinguishable from an asset flip, and that's what this is all about... whether this game represents any real value for gamers. It doesn't.
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.
There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision.
The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers, left handed gamers or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
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 4 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 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.
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.
So, should you download this asset flip? Is this better than any of the 100,000+ genuinely made games on Steam? Of course not!
The game is free, which means this isn't some kind of cash grab or a scam, but the quality is so deplorably low this is just polluting the Steam store, which in itself is harmful. This pollution is taking up visiblity and marketing space from games that were developed by sincere developrs who did the right thing, and it makes it harder for those games to find an audience. It makes it harder for gamers to find genuine games, too. It's impossible to recommend this to gamers, and we can only hope Valve will implement some quality control at some point, instead of relying on reviews like mine to warn gamers away from pollution like this.
