One More Night

[quote][b][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtransaction]Warning: In-Game Cash Shop[/url][/b] This game is infested with a toxic mobile app style cash shop. You will be prompted to and expected to give money/credit card details to the developers through this cash shop to buy in-game goods so you can play the game.[/quote] [quote][b][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_flip]Warning: Asset Flip![/url][/b] "One More Night" is one of literally thousands of creatively bankrupt asset flips/kitbashes infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere.[/quote] This is pure toxic garbage... what happened here is a "developer" ripped off a bunch of Unreal Marketplace assets, dropped them on the Unreal Third Person BP game template, and slapped a FIFTY DOLLAR price tag on it... worse, he supplemented it with disgusting AI slop images and infested it with microtransactions, too. That's right guys... this guy wants YOUR MONEY for a collection of other people's assets and some AI slop. Jesus wept... how is this anything but a direct scam/cash grab? "One More Night" is kitbashed out of pre-made stock assets found on various asset stores and free download sites. Very little of what you see here was actually created by the "developer" themselves. There's no initial download price for this, but that doesn't mean it's worth it given the asset flip nature of this shovelware. When developers can't do their job properly and instead plagiarise the work of others, usually they also lack the technical skills to handle coding, optimization, or game design, or any of the other things real, competent game developers do. "One More Night" is proof of that. It's garbage. On the important matter of pricing and value for gamers, there's a lot going on here with monetisation, so this really shouldn't be considered a truly free product because of that. There's no initial download price, but the developer was charging $50 USD for this. That's AAA pricing on an asset flip. The audacity is shocking... but also, a firm reminder why Valve needs to return to doing QA before allowing garbage on Steam. Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It seems like a nice gesture for the game to have no up-front cost anymore, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product. This is also a bit of a slap in the face to anyone who showed enough questionable judgement to pay money for this... nobody got refunded. It doesn't stop there, this game is also infested with mobile app store like microtransactions. This is a consumer hostile model that we don't need to see on PC. It's deceptively priced to gouge gamers, and that's a reason in itself to avoid this. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 130 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB shows this peaked at [b]only 3 concurrent players[/b]... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. This "free" game won't count toward your game collection count on your profile. With that in mind, is it something you should still download? 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. And finally this is not harmless... when scam artists and hacks steal other people's assets and use AI slop for profit, making these fake games to try get your money, it hurts everyone. It hurts anyone foolish enough to actually give the scammer any money. It hurts gamers even if you ignore this because these fake games and scams are pollution you have to sort past to find genuinely, honestly and professionally made games from real developers. And it hurts genuine amateur developers who do the right thing and make sincere games for gamers, because they have to compete with this crap for visibility. It's not just about this one crapheap, it's about a better, healthier gaming industry for all of us.