Sketch Crawler

Sketch Crawler is quite a train wreck. It's (purportedly) from the creator "S.T.A.L.K.E.R." and that makes me full of doubts... was "S.T.A.L.K.E.R." a fluke? Or is there perhaps a bit of exaggeration going on here? I think the latter... because this is pretty awful. Let's try to explain what this is... it's sold as a game where you can "Edit anything!". This is not true. Think about the CCG deckbuilding fantasy combat card battler, Slay the Spire. What could make it better? If you answered, "MS-Paint!!!", then you're not being honest. But that's literally what this is... it's a CCG like Slay the Spire, but awful, and with a gimmick that you can paint enemies or yourself or the walls to look different. You have to pay money to edit the terrain, though. What does this MS-Paint garbage bolton to Slay the Spire accomplish? Nothing... it doesn't alter the monster stats, your stats, the quests you're doing, or anything else. Wow, this is worthless. So basically you've got a bad ripoff of Slay the Spire with worse graphics that you can edit yourself with the in-game interface, which adds nothing meaningful to the experience. Right. Costs a lot of money, though. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. The visuals in this game are a complete joke, it's seriously just a bunch of MS-Paint sprites/images that look like they were lazily scrawled out over the space of a couple of hours. Like, with the mouse, it doesn't look like they even used a Wacom tablet or anything. It's so bad even pixel "art" would look better than this. Pure MSPaint. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget to arrange someone who can create graphical assets properly, or lack of talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low, enough on its own to deter gamers. While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the lacklustre 2D visuals. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 130,000+ games on Steam? Sketch Crawler has the gamer gouging price of $10 USD, for which you could easily get any number of older AAA games. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. Worse, the developer has another $10 donation tacked on. Like, "Thanks for buying my game, now give me more money!". WTF. So, including the beggarware DLC, this is $20 USD. For comparison, the $20 asking price for this game could get you games like "Monster Hunter World", "Cities: Skylines" or "Stellaris". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this. [quote][b][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/profile]Profile Features Limited![/url][/b] Valve have marked this game as "Profile Features Limited" at the time of this review. This is usually caused by poor sales figures and low community acceptance for the game (to date). Until this status changes, this game will not give you +1 to your Game Collector badge count, appear in profile achievements or any other Steam meta-accomplishments, nor can it be displayed in some profile showcases. If these factors are important to you, it may be worth holding off before buying this game.[/quote]