"Sporadic Spire" is a very poorly made low poly tower defense game that looks to be the result of slapping a bunch of Unreal assets on a 3D tower defense game blueprint (mind you, the assets are laughably simple so maybe they are legit... and indistinguishable from flipped ones).
There's a lighting gimmick that doesn't change anything, and the developer was too lazy to properly bother balancing the game or creating challenging levels so just went with "Procgen IS content!" and phoned that one in. Ultimately, a lazy half-baked effort that failed to garner any interest from gamers.
I'm not sure if this is an asset flip, but it's one of those cases where the assets just look much better than the rest of the quality of the game... a glaring inconsistency. There's no evidence, but as always, the biggest problem with asset flips besides the plagiarism is the deplorably low quality of the other aspects of the game, and even if the game assets are genuinely created for the game, the quality of the rest of the game is indistinguishable from that of asset flips.
This game is fairly dated at 5 years old... it's showing a bit of age and won't give you a very up-to-date gaming experience.
It's free... now, but it wasn't before. The developer was charging $5 USD for this. Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It's a nice gesture for the game to be given away for free, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product. It's also a bit of a slap in the face to anyone who paid money for this... nobody got refunded.
Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at just a dozen or so concurrent players, and now there's basically nobody playing it. Even though it's free. This is a dismal public reception, but it's easy to see why gamers rejected it.
Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it?
Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.
