This comes across as a low key asset flip. The most likely explanation for this is when someone who isn't a professional game developer tries to shortcut the process by using a pile of pre-made assets, so they can then pretend they're a real game developer.
Without the talent to actually design a game, they just push this kind of junk as fast as they can onto Steam Direct, resulting in a product that doesn't hold much at all in terms of quality or interest.
This is a garbage tier VR tech demo, a collection of 5 minigame environments kitbashed out of Unity Asset Store assets and dumped on Steam for no appreciable reason. The games themselves are incredibly basic and shallow minigames with no reason for anyone to want to play them. Most of these involve just waving your arms around to smash waves of identical goblin/monster assets... and that's all there is here.
This game is essentially a bunch of other people's stock assets rearranged and kitbashed into a "game", so with those "borrowed" assets, at first glance it looks okay. But there's much more to a game than the appearance that other people's game assets can provide. When developers aren't capable of doing their job and creating high quality assets, it's also true they can't do any of the rest of the job of a game developer either, and it shows here.
It's VR exclusive, and that shows the developer failed to understand the most basic axiom of VR game design... if the only cool thing about your product is VR support, your product is not cool.
You're forced to sign a highly questionable yet legally unenforceable End User License Agreement... for such a relatively low effort, low quality product, this comes across more as a delusion of grandeur than anything else. This agreement includes questionable requirements that may attempt to revoke consumer law protections that gamers expect to have, which is also highly problematic. Developers must learn they are here to serve gamers, not control them. I had my cat walk over the keyboard while the EULA was displaying, which fixed that problem for me.
This game is fairly dated at 9 years old... and even back then it looked old and busted compared to contemporary, professionally made 3D games of the same period. It looked bad then, it looks worse now.
Now on to pricing and value for gamers.
This is "free" enough (not every "free" game in the "free" section is truly free, there's usually some hidden price tag), at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good, and the cost of a game is more than just financial, your time is valuable too.
You can always judge a game by how popular it is with the general public. Steam has over 130 million unique gamers, and over 40 million unique logons every day from dedicated PC gamers. But this only ever had a peak player count of a dozen or so people... that's very poor public reception. Gamers rejected this, most likely due to the reasons I supply in this review.
Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it?
Not on a bet. This might be "free", but I still feel like I got ripped off.
