"Planet Breakout 2" is a shameless ripoff of "Breakout", copyright Atari, 1976. To date, no legal action has been taken against the developer by Atari, but it's never off the cards. One DMCA request and Valve will have no choice but to remove this infringing product from Steam.
This also breaks one of the fundamental rules of stealing someone else's game design (and in this case, trademark as well)... you have to at least try to make something better than the product design you stole. This is considerably worse than the original Breakout.
Because this is just Breakout, but from Temu, all you do is bounce balls with a paddle. Ho hum.
This features really godawful pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks much worse than most other games 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?
Nope. This isn't worth downloading. While this didn't cost me any money up front, I still feel ripped off.
