Orion: The Eternal Punishment

No esta mal, es cortito y gratis, esta entretenido.

"Orion: The Eternal Punishment" is a genuinely, but unfortunately poorly made attempt at a boomer shooter. What do you do in the game? The story involves a hunter, Orion, who was turned into a constellation after his death and tasked with hunting corrupted stars. You are given an automatic crossbow and a blunderbuss, and use special abilities and gadgets to progress like a grappling hhook swing. Unfortunately there's almost no polish here, gameplay is slow, sluggish, uneventful and unengaging. It'a amazing that someone worked out how to make a first person shooter into a boring experience, but here we are. The game is really simple and unambitious in terms of implementation, more of a tech demo or one of those cases where an amateur developer spends $100 to publish something on Steam Direct to see if it's possible. Yes, obviously it's possible. A proof of concept, tech demo, or something that's less than a little blip on the radar isn't offering anything truly valuable to gamers. The graphics aren't great, very low quality assets trying to look "retro" but just look bad. That's understandably a turn off for a lot of gamers, and it's a big contributor to the failure of the game to attract gamers despite having no up-front cost. Gaming is a primarily visual medium, and if developers want to succeed, they must understand that it's not an area for compromise. You deserve better than compromises. On the matter of pricing and value for gamers, most "free" games on Steam aren't really free. There's often nasty mobile app cash shops, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of shady pricing schemes 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, or something you might want to spend your time on. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 3 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.