"Sphere game colours" is a fairly basic Unity asset flipped marble rolling game, almost certainly just copied off a blueprint for making a marble roller, one of dozens, if not hundreds of these minimal effort "games" glutting Steam. Little to no actual game development took place, just a few blocks placed around a couple of levels on a basic marble roller template. It's valueless for PC gamers.
Taking this shovelware seriously as if it was a genuine attempt to make a game, it doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.
The game features lazy low-polygon assets (apart from the marbles... and you know... not much goes into a ball), making this look like a barely functional 3D game from the 1990s. It's unclear why the developers weren't able to arrange high quality, high polygon count contemporary assets for the game, and also irrelevant... what matters is that this looks bad as a result of their decisions, a compromise PC gamers shouldn't have to put up with.
The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers, left handed gamers or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 2 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 110,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.
This kind of asset flipping isn't harmless. It makes it harder for gamers to find genuinely made games from ethical developers. It makes it harder for genuine indie developers, who put hard work into trying to make real games, to find an audience for their products. It gives indie developers a bad name.
So, should you buy this asset flip? Is this better than any of the 110,000+ genuinely made games on Steam? Of course not!
"Sphere game colours" is relatively cheap at $2 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, and the questionable ethical nature of the developer and/or their associates (as outlined above), this is impossible to recommend. This is also competing with over 14,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.
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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]
[quote][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/reviews]Developer Response![/url][/quote]The developer has weighed in to inform everyone they didn't read the [url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/reviews]Developer Usage Rules[/url] for Steam "partners", or they deliberately ignored the part where Valve says:
[quote]Though it may be tempting, not every review needs to be responded to. A developer response will frequently draw more attention than the original statement, potentially turning a small issue into a much larger community discussion. It's also not a good idea to use this feature to refute customer opinions. Your direct attention can be seen as validation or a defensive attempt to silence your customers.[/quote]
The developer, who is also The Main Character, would like everyone to know he personally invented marble physics platformers. He was working at Atari in 1984 and invented Marble Madness.
He personally made this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK78zNULowg
And this asset pack:
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/templates/packs/marble-kit-14719
And every other marble game was invented by him. Countless others.
Or, alternatively, and hear me out here... he's full of utter bullcrap.
Gamers, as always, I just present a whole bunch of facts and evidence. Like, you know, a peak player count of only two people, presumably the developer and his therapist. It's up to you, the gamer, to review the evidence and decide for yourself. Like, basically, everyone except for those two Steam accounts that both played the game at the same time.
You can't make this kind of stuff up... oh wait you, can, I invented it! Me!
Ladies and gentlemen, at least we finally got to meet The Main Character.
Nothing in the developers pointless breach of Valve guidelines changes any of the objective facts of my review. My review stands unaltered. I cannot recommend this game to anyone.
