[h1]GAMES LIKE THIS NEED A NEUTRAL RATING OPTION[/h1]
Steam should consider adding a third option for rating games, perhaps just a flat, open hand or a fist bump. Search All - Mushrooms isn't a bad game, but I wouldn't consider it to be a game I would eagerly recommend to players either. I feel like we have to just lump games into two piles, which isn't helpful to anyone, and having to give a Thumbs-down rating can sometimes be a bit harsh on the game and its developers.
I have played hundreds of these kinds of searching games, so obviously, I enjoy playing them. My biggest issue with this particular game is the user interface. Most of these games allow the player to zoom in and drag the entire screen around. In this game, you can still zoom to enlarge the screen, but then you have to use directional arrows located on the top, bottom, left & right sides. It's very difficult to pinpoint an area; you have to do quick little bumps by single-clicking on an arrow constantly. If you click an arrow and hold it, the screen goes all the way to the edges..and those edges include huge white borders on all four sides. This feature seemed archaic and annoying, making the game less enjoyable!
The wildlife scene was decent, and there were a few moving objects like birds, clouds, and helicopters. As for the Mushrooms themselves, some are quite large, but many of them are practically microscopic and definitely unrecognizable. Some mushrooms looked like typical mushrooms; others just looked like a patch of weeds or perhaps a flower. At the bottom of the scene, there were several drawings that looked like perfectly shaped mushrooms but obviously were not one of the accepted mushrooms.
Normally, I wouldn't complain about these features because these types of games are usually under a buck, $1.99 tops. Search All - Mushrooms is almost $3, which is way too expensive for this particular game. If it blew my socks off, that would be a different story, but it didn't, so unfortunately, I can't recommend this game.
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