Once upon a time

My PC sounded like it was cooking mac and cheese from this. The idea behind it is cool, wish it was executed better. The controls I don't even want to remember. you have to turn your mouse all the way around in a direction it should not go to do a 180. I couldn't get anything from the inventory because it was so wack and broken. There aren't any directions(the guide on steam was helpful) but no directions. I truly try and give the benefit of the doubt with games, but this was just done poorly. it's from 2017 and it's 2022, I think if the dev wanted to fix it they would have. maybe a first project whatever it is, I would skip out on it.

Хорошая игра, кривоватая немного но в целом рабочая Всего 41 обзоров и 61% отрицательные Ачивки легкие ДАВАЙТЕ напишем дружно хороший отзыв игре чтобы хотяб игру до смешанных отзывов довести

"Once upon a time" is just a low key asset flip.. the quality of the sometimes mismatched looking assets is suspiciously much higher than the actual game is, and that's a glaring mismatch. Who's going to create a bunch of high quality assets and then phone in the actual game? It doesn't add up... unless you consider how easy it is for anyone, even people unqualified to make games, to get any and all the game assets they want. The game is essentially a kitbash of assets made by other people, poorly assembled by an amateur developer. These projects are usually rushed through Steam Direct as fast as possible, and the lack of professional standards means the end result is something no gamer should waste their time on. This is, I guess at least a well intentioned asset flip, the developer grabbed a bunch of assets from the Unity Asset Store and tried to make an adventure game with them, of course the result is a mangled mess with inexplicable demands to use a console peasant toy gamepad, utterly annoying controls, and pure jank in terms of gameplay... it's thoroughly unoptimised and barely runs on any gaming rig. The plot and narrative are perfectly matched with the botched technical execution... the developers favorite subject, a little girl, is transported to a magical fairytale world and you then have to do really poor point and click third person adventuring, if you can get the controls to work. Truly a disaster. Since this is basically a kitbash of other people's assets, it's visually better looking than the actual game. The thing is, when developers don't budget properly and hire real artists, and lack the skill to do the rest of the job of a game developer and the result is deplorably bad quality junkware. "Once upon a time" proves this point perfectly. The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render this unplayable for differently-abled gamers, left handed gamers or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts. This looks a lot like it was designed for consoles, but released on Steam instead by mistake. While this is on PC, it has all the hallmarks and deficiencies of a console game, from the clunkier than needed control scheme to the less than cutting edge graphics. There's 10's of thousands of PC games on Steam, and PC gamers deserve only the best. This might not appeal to many gamers due to the lack of PC-centric design. It's unclear why this never made it to the video game console appliances it seems to have been designed for. This game is fairly dated at 9 years old... and even back then it looked old and busted compared to contemporary, professionally made 3D games of the same period. It looked bad then, it looks worse now. Let's look at the price and what kind of value this actually offers gamers. This is "free" enough (not every "free" game in the "free" section is truly free, there's usually some hidden price tag), 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, and the cost of a game is more than just financial, your time is valuable too. Even as a free game, this couldn't find an audience. With a peak of [b]only 7 players[/b], it's clear the Steam community took one look and walked away. They literally couldn't pay people to spend time playing this. Since free games don't contribute to your game collector badge and other profile stuff, is this a worthwhile addition to your Steam library? Give this one a miss. Although it's free, your time and storage are valuable resources, and the market is filled with superior options.

This is super bad - all instructions are for gamepad, but nothing about keyboard. With dual monitor setup, I kept pressing my mouse to left monitor - game did not lock cursor just to game window.

everyone is like "this game is bad," "this game is short." but it's an easy 100%

Terrible, don't even bother.