"Oh Darling! I Hate To Tell You This..." is a tired 2D retro pixel top down twin stick shooter. Yep, Steam really needed another one of those. Sure, there's literally thousands of them on Steam but we needed one more, right?
Anyway in this one the pixel blob is supposed to be a little girl or something. Really, when developers can't do video game graphics, and we get left with all these pixel blobs, does it really matter? It's like asking why the aliens were invading Earth in Space Invaders. And what the heck are the blocks in Tetris anyway? Except here, there's even less reason to ask because, unlike those genre establishing games, this is a very weak, watered down copycat with no true value as a game.
This features really godawful, lazy pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks bad because of that decision, and that's a major deterrent to gamers. Games like Terraria and Stardew Valley succeeded [i]despite[/i] the bad graphics, not because of them.
The developer chose not to do the job of a game developer and create meaningful bespoke levels, narrative based gameplay progression and so on. Instead, they decided that "Procgen IS content!" and tried to use procgen algorithms to create infinite, samey, repetitive, soulless levels. Developers must learn that procgen is a terrible substitute for creating real content.
Not every "free" game really is. There's often MTX, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of things 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.
Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 6 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.
