PentaZorg

"PentaZorg" is an unusual game, perhaps erroneously described as a "bullet hell" game, but that's not accurate. It's more around pattern avoidance, but what comes at you aren't really free moving projectiles (can't be a bullet hell without bullets) but instead block patterns and so on... the dodging gameplay of games like Super Mario Bros is probably more apt. Which is all well and good but the technical implementation here is incredibly weak. This features really godawful, lazy minmalist blocky pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. Although, weirdly, there's some nice looking backgrounds sometimes, which shows the developer could have done better but didn't. Huh. Failing on purpose? It also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks bad because of that decision, and that's a major deterrent to gamers. Games like Terraria and Stardew Valley succeeded [i]despite[/i] the bad graphics, not because of them. 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 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.