"Radii" is one of literally thousands of retro 2D platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere... and I'm not kidding. Searching for "platformers" on the Steam store page yields over 17,000 results! Is this one of the best of those? Absolutely not.
On the upside this "platformer" isn't quite as lazy as most of them, even though it fails directly on technical quality merits. This minimalist/pixelcrap platformer doesn't follow the usual Mario Bros ripoff formula, but instead has you navigating puzzle platform levels with gimmicks around your momentum, limited numbers of jumps, so you need to manage your trajectory, momentum and energy levels to work out if you're going to bounce to where you need to go or not... this can be really challenging, but the incredibly weak technicals are probably what turned gamers away from this. That and the developer didn't bother finishing the game after they saw nobody wanted it.
Platforming is an old, mostly dead genre, and this lacklustre experience, while it doesn't have an upfront cost, isn't saving the genre... it's no surprise this failed to capture any attention from gamers in the era of immersive 3D gaming.
The developers abandoned this 2 years and 2 months ago. It will never be completed. This unfinished game is just polluting Steam and making it harder for gamers to find genuinely, completely made games.
The graphics here are particularly awful, minimalist ugly looking pixelcrap, very low effort, so bad that it actually stands out as one of the worst looking games on Steam. Quite an accomplishment.
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.
Now on to pricing and value for gamers.
So this is "free", but it's abandoned. Worse, it was never intended to be free. The developer intended to charge for this if it ever left Early Access... but the developer just couldn't be bothered. Making this abandoned pollution that gamers need to filter through when searching for products made by more ethical developers who fulfill their promise to deliver on their Early Access commitment instead of breaking that promise.
Even as a free product, this couldn't find an audience. With a peak of [b]only 5 users[/b], it's clear the Steam community took one look and walked away. They literally couldn't pay people to spend time with this.
This "free" game won't count toward your game collection count on your profile. With that in mind, is it something you should still download?
This one scores a "nope". While it won't necessarily cost you money, the time and hard drive space it requires could be better invested in one of the many higher quality alternatives on Steam.
