Note: While this game has achievements, not all of them can be obtained due to hamfisted bungling from the developers. If you attempt to play this game as an achievement hunter, it's unlikely you will attain 100% completion.
"Pedros Eggventure" is some kind of weird, badly made student project made for the Rookies awards (an participation trophy event designed to give amateur/student developers who can't get jobs little trophies for participating in making games nobody wants). Taking on the role of Pedro Pascal (wait for the C&D letter from the lawyers I guess) you do some platforming and 3D stuff, only badly and with some really badly done flipped looking assets in some places. The Rookies almost certainly gave them a participation trophy for this effort.
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.
This is not a sincerely made product, it was made for a game jam, which is a problem. It was done in a constrained period of time; professional game development takes years of effort from teams of talented and qualified people. A "game" slapped together in a weekend by an amateur simply isn't going to have any value for gamers, and that plays out clearly with this shovelware.
Also, products created in game jams/for amateur award events are never intended for gamers, they exist only to stroke the ego of amateur developers who can't get a real job in the industry. When developers, especially untalented ones, put themselves before gamers, garbage like "Pedros Eggventure" is the inevitable result.
It's improper for shovelware like this to be published through Steam Direct, because it's harmful. This half-baked, rushed, non-professional product, not designed for gamers, is taking up space on the Steam store that should be given over to genuine, talented developers who do the right thing and make fully developed, not rushed products for gamers. This makes it harder for gamers like you and me to find these genuinely made products.
The graphics aren't great, really badly done custom assets and some flippy looking assets for some of the 3D bits... none of which look consistent, and as always gamers are understandably alert when games have horribly mismatched, godawfully looking bad assets. 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.
Now on to pricing and value for 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.
In terms of public reception, this failed. There's over 130 million unique gamers visiting Steam every month. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 2 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?
Nope. This isn't worth downloading. I didn't pay money, but I still feel almost as ripped off as Pedro Pascal.
