Relic Keepers

[b][quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_flip]Warning: Asset Flip![/url][/quote][/b]Relic Keepers is a Digital Homicide style asset flip, or what Valve calls a "Fake Game". The "developer" paid for/pirated a few Unity asset store packs, dumped them all in a blender, and submitted it to Valve as if they're real game developers. Two notable criteria for what makes an asset flip instead of legitimate use of stock assets are whether those assets comprise the majority of the game, and whether the "developer" properly credited the people who created most of the assets in the game. This game fails both of those tests. The "developers" here didn't credit any of the artists and real, actual game developers who created the assets here, so this is plagiarism, as well as cash grab shovelware. It's particularly insulting how lazy the developer was about this asset flip, with all kinds of mismatched assets of varying levels of detail... at least the Russian asset flippers make some attempt to keep the assets they steal looking consistent. Idea Cabin have a known history of trying to scam people into paying them money for someone else's work, through this account or through closely linked/alt accounts. One example of Idea Cabin doing this is [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/705300]Suicide Adventures[/url], which is really the "[url=https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/dungeons/dungeon-s-explorer-kit-39788]Dungeons Explorer Kit[/url]" asset, written by the actual developers, Aquarius Max. This asset flip from the known asset flip scammers at Idea Cabin is incredibly lazy stuff. It's just a wave survival hack'n'slash game where you stand in the middle of a bunch of haphazardly placed medieval town assets, and a bunch of stolen goblin assets run at you. That's all there is to this. If this wasn't an asset flip, it would still be garbage. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 2 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from (over 9,000 completely free titles), the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. Relic Keepers is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, and the questionable ethical nature of the developer and/or their associates (as outlined above), this is impossible to recommend. This is also competing with over 9,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.