Squeaky Squad

Управление очень не удобное!

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Squeaky Squad is one of literally thousands of retro 2D platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere... and I'm not kidding. Searching for "platformers" on the Steam store page yields over 17,000 results! Is this one of the best of those? Absolutely not. This platformer offers quite a bit less than most platformers on Steam (even free ones), as the developer couldn't work out how to turn off the ugly screen filter or do colour graphics (benefit of the doubt there, because otherwise they made this look bad on purpose, and that would be malice). Platforming is an old, mostly dead genre, and this lacklustre experience, while it doesn't have an upfront cost, isn't saving the genre... it's no surprise this failed to capture any attention from gamers in the era of immersive 3D gaming. The story involves exploring different areas of the ship (e.g., flooded pipelines, factories, aerial decks) in any order to combat the "Squeakers" and their leaders, the "Squeaky Squad." Players must use weapons and upgrades to survive and defeat the enemies. The ship hub allows for character upgrades and the acquisition of new weapons based on currency earned in previous attempts... but none of this is any fun, and the terrible graphics detract from whatever plot/narrative the developers might have in mind. This features really godawful pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks much worse than most other games because of that decision, and that's a major deterrent to gamers. Games like Terraria and Stardew Valley succeeded [i]despite[/i] the bad graphics, not because of them. The developer chose not to do the job of a real game developer and create meaningful bespoke levels, narrative based gameplay progression and so on. Instead, they decided that "Procgen IS content!" and lazily tried to use procgen algorithms to create infinite, samey, repetitive, soulless levels, because that's a lot less work. As a result of this poor decision, the game gets tired and repetitive almost immediately. Developers must learn that procgen is a terrible substitute for creating real content. It should not be used as "ez-mode" for content creation, as the developer tried to do here. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 12 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. 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.

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Needs more polish

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is amazing this is free is simply wonderfull