"Simple LOTO Simulator" is not a game. Games contain meaningful gamelike interaction and game loops, which are absent in this software.
Instead of being a game, "Simple LOTO Simulator" is a software application that's a disaster waiting to happen. To explain briefly, this is a training application for a lockout system... a "lockout" system is a method by which industrial machinery is physically locked and rendered inert such that it is somewhat safer for human beings to repair or maintain it without it turning on or moving and potentially causing harm to the operators (this happens a LOT in these industries).
It should therefore be immediately apparent that none of that is what anyone would consider a PC game.
A side note, this is also absolutely terrible at the one job it has... there's no single "true" process for equipment isolation and the developers here pretending there that there is will do nothing but harmfully misinform people. Also, no industrial/mining site would even have Steam available to workers, because, you know, they are not there for video games. What a joke.
For those unfamiliar with what actually makes something a game, a "game loop" describes the interaction and feedback a gamer has when playing a game.
Tetris, for example, has a game loop where a random block appears, the gamer interacts with the block to position it, and then the game decides if that finishes a row or not, increases the players score if any rows were completed, then gives the gamer another block to position. Counter-Strike has a game loop where a player seeks another player, tests their skill against that player by shooting them or being shot, the computer rewards the player if they win, and then if the player survives, they repeat that loop.
There's no loop here, no true interactive feedback. It simply is not a game, it cannot be "played".
This has misleadingly been launched in the "Games" section of Steam instead of the "Software" section. This is a common mistake for developers who are new to Steam, or don't understand the difference between games and software which isn't a game. It seems this software published incorrectly as a game is simply lack of experience/knowledge of the correct process.
Here's a link for the process to publish non-game software on Steam:
[url=https://help.steampowered.com/en/wizard/HelpWithPublishing?issueid=925]Steam Developer Help With Software Publishing[/url]
It's unfortunate this process was not known about/followed, resulting in a software application being published in the wrong place.
Publishing things which aren't games on Steam in the Games section as games is misleading to gamers and somewhat harmful, because it pollutes the Steam marketplace and takes away visibility and market exposure for genuine game developers who do the right thing and make games for gamers.
There are no gameplay loops in this software, no "gameplay", no meaningful game like interaction. It's a software application and as such has no merits as a video game for gamers. Because of this, I cannot recommend this non-game software as a game to gamers.
Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 130 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB shows this peaked at [b]only 3 concurrent users[/b]... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away.
