Sea of Chaos

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"Sea of Chaos" or "Chaos Sea" (it's always a sign you're gonna have a bad time when the developer doesn't know what their game is called) is a very complicated premise for a game. This is a hybrid real time strategy/tower defense/base builder/tactical strategy... did I miss any? I probably missed some. And while the game fights to span so many genres, it delivers successfully on none of them. The weak technical implementation is the nail in the coffin for this failed for-profit game. The game has you build out a base, recruit troops... there's a lot to do and the developer describing this as "easy" was quite possibly being sarcastic. And such a premise might even work if it was competently and professionally delivered. This features really godawful, lazy 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 bad 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. It's free... now, but it wasn't before. The developer was charging a whopping $9 USD for this. Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It's a nice gesture for the game to be given away for free, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 2 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. 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 this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.