"Planet LEV" is not a game. Games contain meaningful gamelike interaction and game loops, which are absent in this "art experience".
Instead of being a game, "Planet LEV" is a software application that presents a poorly made art exhibition, related to a larger Spanish art expo called the Lev Festival where amateur artists show off stuff. This is a digital extension of that "modern alternative art" train wreck, and it's bad... even as an art exhibition, it's low poly, low quality junk.
We get this non-game shovelware on Steam whenever your usual Starbucks barista/McDonalds frycook art school dropout finally gets a restraining order from the local art galleries so turns to Steam Direct to try get their art published somewhere so they can finally dream of moving out of their parents basement.
It's true that games can be art... art is where the pinnacles of craftsmanship and quality meet vision and narrative to create an experience far greater than the sum of the parts. This isn't a game at all, and the craftsmanship and narrative are terrible. This isn't making art better, it's just making gaming worse.
To clarify why this isn't a game in more precise terms, a "game loop" is the core cycle of interaction and feedback between a player and the game itself.
An obvious example of a game loop would be in games like Forza, where you drive a car in a circle. If you're faster and more skillful than the other drivers, you get rewarded for first place, then you find yourself back at the starting line for the next game loop iteration. Even open world/sandbox games like Minecraft feature a core game loop where you search for materials, use them to construct something, which rewards you in terms of increasing your progression and allowing you to repeat the next loop to get more and better materials. Those are game loops.
There's no such loop here, no true interactive feedback. It simply is not a game, it cannot be "played".
So this art exhibition app was incorrectly dumped into the "Games" section instead of the "Software" section. We can just guess this is because the artist has no idea what they are doing and just tried to shove their app down gamers' throats without considering the right way to publish (if there is such a thing)... once more a failed artist putting his own ego before the needs of gamers.
The correct process for publishing non-game software is found here:
[url=https://help.steampowered.com/en/wizard/HelpWithPublishing?issueid=925]Steam Developer Help With Software Publishing[/url]
It is a shame the developer failed to follow the correct process, as we now have this garbage interactive art demo taking up space in the games section where it doesn't belong. This kind of store pollution makes it harder for gamers to find real, quality games.
This lacks any gameplay or meaningful interaction, it's a very poor quality art project, not a game. Because we're here in the games section looking for real games, I have to warn people away from this incorrectly published junkware.
A peak of [b]5 concurrent viewers[/b] for a "free" art installation is a disastrous public reception. Out of 130 million potential gamers here on Steam, almost nobody was interested. Even though this is "free". That level of rejection speaks a lot for just how badly designed this art is.
