Slay.one

Slay.one is yet another of literally hundreds of lazy amateur 2D retro top-down shooter/brawlers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. But this one is worse.. much worse. See, this is a free browser game that has been dumped onto Steam as a paid product by the Chinese developers. It's an attempt to scam PC gamers into paying money for a free browser game. This is not okay! Let's say you do decide to buy this even though you could get it for free by opening Chrome. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. For gameplay purposes, this is a browser game. And we all know, Steam isn't here to compete with Chrome and Firefox. If the game can be done in a web browser, it's just not rich or compelling enough to appeal to serious gamers on PC. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. So, should you buy this free browser game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam? Once more we see greedy devs trying to scam PC gamers. On Steam, this is $10 USD, but it's free to play on the web. Web developers must learn PC gamers are not here to be gouged, and can't be expected to pay TEN BUCKS FOR A FREE BROWSER GAME just because it's been lazily dumped on Steam. This is unacceptable disrespect for PC gamers. Because this can be played free elsewhere, and because of the other defects, it's impossible to recommend. Who do they think we are?