S.U.M. - Slay Uncool Monsters

Fun little free game if you enjoy the gymnastic that is mental calculation. I use to game to warm up my reflexes for a few minutes before playing a more serious game.

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"S.U.M. - Slay Uncool Monsters" is a poorly made educational game, an arithemetic "incrementer" game with a thin pixelcrap "RPG" veneer glued on badly with library paste. This very squarely exemplifies the old adage that educational games don't make education better, but they do make gaming worse. A luzly bad pixelcrap game where you kill monsters by doing sums is one thing, but the toxic monetisation on this really kills it. This features really godawful pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks much worse than most other games because of that decision, and that's a major deterrent to gamers. Games like Terraria and Stardew Valley succeeded [i]despite[/i] the bad graphics, not because of them. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. You're expected to pay up $7 USD to unlock content through DLC purchases. The game should not be considered completely unlocked until you empty your wallet for the developer. This is misleading and predatory pricing on a product falsely marketed as "free". In terms of public reception, this failed to appeal to the 130 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at just a dozen or so concurrent players, and now there's basically nobody playing it. Even though it's free. This is a dismal public reception, but it's easy to see why gamers rejected it. 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? This is 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.