[quote][b][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_flip]Warning: Asset Flip![/url][/b]
"Rescue The Prisoner" is one of literally thousands of creatively bankrupt asset flips/kitbashes infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere.[/quote]
More hot garbage on Steam... this is an ultra basic, unfinished Alpha of a game, and the alpha test was to see if the developer could rip off a couple of Unity Asset Store assets and get money off Steam by reselling them packaged in a barely functioning FPS kitbash.
"Rescue The Prisoner" is a basic asset flip, kitbashed out of a bunch of someone else's game assets all thrown in a blender. This is creatively bankrupt stuff, effectively plagiarism, and it's bad for everyone.
There's no initial download price for this, but that doesn't mean it's worth it given the asset flip nature of this shovelware. When developers can't do their job properly and instead plagiarise the work of others, usually they also lack the technical skills to handle coding, optimization, or game design, or any of the other things real, competent game developers do. "Rescue The Prisoner" is proof of that. It's garbage.
The "developers" walked away from this 2 years and 3 months ago. This is never getting finished. This unfinished game is just polluting the store and making it harder for people to find real, actually finished games. This isn't good for gamers or for developers who do the right thing.
Next is pricing and what value this has for gamers.
There's no initial download price, but the developer was charging $5 USD for this.
Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It seems like a nice gesture for the game to have no up-front cost anymore, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product. This is also a bit of a slap in the face to anyone who showed enough questionable judgement to pay money for this... nobody got refunded.
This is a paid product at A$ 7.50. When a developer asks for money, it changes everything about how the game should be evaluated. Gamers who spend money on a game have a right to expect a higher standard of quality and a better overall experience than they'd accept from something they picked up for free. Does this deliver on that? Let's see.
The A$ 7.50 price tag failed to translate into players. SteamDB shows this only ever peaked at [b]2 concurrent players[/b] - a catastrophic number for a paid product on a platform with over 130 million active gamers. The Steam community looked at the asking price, looked at the product, and walked away.
At A$ 7.50, should you buy this game? What's the verdict?
Absolutely not. The A$ 7.50 asking price is completely unjustified for a product of this quality. Save your money.
[b]Note: Joke reviews[/b]
As usual, with some of the worst games on Steam, all the comedians come out of the woodwork. The vast majority of the reviews for this game are joke reviews, mocking the game for just how bad it is. The comedians give us the usual "this game cured my cancer, saved my marriage, changed my life" story... sarcastic, but not useful if you want to know if the game is worth it.
Because most of the reviews are humorous but also insincere and not reflective of the actual quality of the product, the positive review score for this game should be taken with a grain of salt.
