Oona the Druid's Path

"Oona the Druid's Path" is an abandoned early access (student project?)... and it's a clunky unfinished and broken mess. If this was from students and they tried to show this to prospective employers, they'd never get a job again in their lives... not even at McDonalds. "Yeah we don't trust game development students this bad with hot coffee or deep fryer oil. Not since the last time". What do you do in the game? It's a sloppy 3D rendered 2D platformer... and while this is better than pixelcrap, 2D platforming is pretty much a dead genre and this defunct entry isn't making things better. It needs a tonne of polish before it's even viable as a game. It's unpleasant to play. The developers abandoned this 4 years and 3 months ago. It will never be completed. This unfinished game is just polluting Steam and making it harder for gamers to find genuinely, completely made games. The graphics in this game are passable, but could be better. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here. 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 9 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.