Poly Jigsaw: Animals

Note: This is a generic review for the jigsaw puzzle games of this indie developer. This is a traditional style jigsaw puzzle game with cute pictures. I am honestly not a big fan of indie games for various reasons, but I actually enjoyed playing this game. It has very beautiful artwork. The music is nice. And the gameplay is relaxing, straightforward and especially not buggy. I think it is worth its price for a 1-hour puzzle game from an indie developer. 7/10.

[b][quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_flip]Warning: Asset Flip![/url][/quote][/b] Poly Jigsaw: Animals is an asset flip, what Valve calls a "fake game". The "developer", Cute Hannah's Games, took a template from ClickTeam Fusion, slapped a couple of asset flipped sprites on it, and dumped the results onto Steam as a cash grab scam. Same modus operandi as the Russian asset flippers behind Blender Games/My Way Games, so there's every possibility this is just another shell account used to push shovelware. Cute Hannah's Games has shown a repeated pattern of ripping off ClickTeam Fusion templates and dumping them on Steam. Don't believe me? Here's some other asset flips from exactly the same template, all shamelessly dumped on Steam as nasty cash grabs: [list] [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/2396000]Poly Jigsaw: Dinosaurs[/url]", copy + pasted from the same template by Cute Hannah's Games [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/2313530]Poly Jigsaw: Cats[/url]", copy + pasted from the same template by Cute Hannah's Games [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/2334620]Poly Jigsaw: Birds[/url]", copy + pasted from the same template by Cute Hannah's Games [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/2413750]Poly Jigsaw: Dogs[/url]", copy + pasted from the same template by Cute Hannah's Games [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/2375560]Poly Jigsaw: Butterflies[/url]", copy + pasted from the same template by Cute Hannah's Games [/list] Look for yourself... these are all exactly the same game! The products that result from asset flips aren't "real" games. They lack depth and content, because they're just simplistic copies of demos or tutorials. In this case, "Poly Jigsaw: Animals" is just a ripoff of a basic ClickTeam Fusion puzzle template filled out with some badly filtered animal pictures stolen off the internet, and doesn't have any merit as a proper, fully fledged PC game, so this copy+paste of it can't be recommended. Asset flips don't involve any professional game development. Sure, sometimes they may change a few cosmetic things, swap out different assets etc, but at heart it's functionally identical to the asset they're ripping off. Asset flips are an insult to both PC gamers and to professional game developers who create genuine, high quality PC games. Asset flips like this are harmful to the gaming industry and to Steam because they reduce the visibility that sincerely made indie games should have. They make it harder for gamers to find genuine games made by honest developers. [b][quote][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/profile]Profile Features Limited![/url][/quote][/b] Valve have marked this game as "Profile Features Limited" at the time of this review. This is usually caused by poor sales figures and low community acceptance for the game (to date). Until this status changes, this game will not give you +1 to your Game Collector badge count, appear in profile achievements or any other Steam meta-accomplishments, nor can it be displayed in some profile showcases. If these factors are important to you, it may be worth holding off before buying this game.