Stairs

Stairs is a fairly basic Unreal asset flipped first person horror adventure, one of many hundreds, if not thousands of these glutting Steam. The "developer" paid for/pirated a few Unreal Marketplace assets, arranged them haphazardly in a first person adventure game template, and submitted it to Valve as if they're real game developers. Two notable criteria for what makes an asset flip instead of legitimate use of stock assets are whether those assets comprise the majority of the game, and whether the "developer" properly credited the people who created most of the assets in the game. This game fails both of those tests. The "developers" here didn't credit any of the artists and real, actual game developers who created the assets here, so this is plagiarism, as well as cash grab shovelware. Stairs is an older game from 2015. It's a venerable 10 years old at the time of this review, and, in fairness, some effort went into arranging the assets into a comprehensive story, but it's an incredibly hard sell given the utterly unrealistic pricing on a 10 year old asset flip. 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 developers didn't design the game for modern gaming PCs, as such the display resolution caps out at around 1440p, there's no support for the state-of-the-art 4K or higher resolutions. The game simply won't look right on modern gaming displays due to this failure on the part of the developers. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. 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! Stairs has the far too high price of $13 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, and the questionable ethical nature of the developer and/or their associates (as outlined above), this is impossible to recommend. For comparison, the $13 asking price for this game could get you games like "Dead Cells", "SCUM" or "Cuphead". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this.

Es ist kein Müll, aber Spaß sieht irgendwie auch anders aus. Bis auf wenige spannende Abschnitte war das einfach langweilig und belanglos und ich fange an es zu vergessen, noch während ich das hier schreibe. Preislich ist das für ein 10 Jahre altes Indie Game auch viel zu teuer. Mich wundert es gar nicht, dass dieses Spiel niemals irgendeine Form von Aufmerksamkeit bekommen hat.

The game has a lighting issue that occurred after going in the shelter, i started the game again anew after reaching the mine in the first one but it happened again. The game intrigued me but that glitch simply destroyed the game, and lighting in a horror game thats based off of the darkness and flashlight is kinda massive.

⣿⣿⡻⠿⣳⠸⢿⡇⢇⣿⡧⢹⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡐⣯⠁ ⠄⠄ ⠟⣛⣽⡳⠼⠄⠈⣷⡾⣥⣱⠃⠣⣿⣿⣿⣯⣭⠽⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⢢⠏⠄ ⠄ ⢠⡿⠶⣮⣝⣿⠄⠄⠈⡥⢭⣥⠅⢌⣽⣿⣻⢶⣭⡿⠿⠜⢿⣿⣿⡿⠁⠄⠄ ⠄⣼⣧⠤⢌⣭⡇⠄⠄⠄⠭⠭⠭⠯⠴⣚⣉⣛⡢⠭⠵⢶⣾⣦⡍⠁⠄⠄⠄⠄ ⠄⣿⣷⣯⣭⡷⠄⠄⢀⣀⠩⠍⢉⣛⣛⠫⢏⣈⣭⣥⣶⣶⣦⣭⣛⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄ ⢀⣿⣿⣿⡿⠃⢀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣎⢩⠌⣡⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠄⠄⠄ ⢸⡿⢟⣽⠎⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⠄⠄ ⣰⠯⣾⢅⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠄ ⢰⣄⡉⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠄ ⢯⣌⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠄ ⢸⣇⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠄ ⢸⣟⣧⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠄ ⠈⢹⡧⣿⣸⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠗⣈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠄ ⠄⠘⢷⡳⣾⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⢀⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠄ ⠄⠄⠈⣵⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠄⠄ ⠄⠄⠄⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠄⠄

gran juego historia interesante buenos graficos muy buenos sonidos de ambiente mecanicas buenas, enemigos de buen diseño y bastante variedad de areas, puzzles de buena calidad y me gusto mucho la mecanica de ir fotografeando areas que el juego te muestra, ademas el juego siempre te tiene con precion mas en las zonas patrulladas por enemigos o momentos donde giras y ves sombras o siluetas le da un toque inesperado y aterrador si tuviera que criticar algo es que al momento de morir es algo decepcionante me hubiera gustado que cuando te mata un enemigo te salga un screamer o un grito almenos y no solo que el personaje se caiga al suelo. tambien agregar que el final te deja mucho a la imaginacion y te deja con ganas de seguir jugando pero no hay algun dlc o una segunda entrega. en general se me hizo un gran juego de terror que no te pide muchos requisitos si me preguntan lo recomiendo para sacarte uno que otro susto y pasar el rato no es un juego muy largo asi que en una noche te lo podes pasar por su precio tan barato en mi opinion vale completamente la pena comprarlo y jugarlo

Stairs was an exercise in patience. This due to a plethora of bugs, random crashes and a history that becomes boring in the first 15 minutes. A game that tried too hard to capitalise on the Stairs creepy pasta, but, unfortunately, lacks the stairs of said creepy pasta. Weird as it sounds, the game doesn't feature a demonic stairs leading you to your doom, but features one leading to boredom. Fair warning, the game crashed 4 times and bugged in the last 10 minutes, meaning I couldn't finish it, and had to restart the game all over again, which, I didn't. The game runs very well on Steam Deck, although I suspect this is because it's an 8 year old game... If you want to check how it runs on Steam Deck, just press the link below: https://youtu.be/yFan7VS--fk

As a player with impaired reflexes I can not recommend this game. There are two running or chase sequences. After many frustrating tries I managed to beat the first one in the mine but then when it came to the second one where you chase the light I end up getting killed and I even though I got to the pole and flipped the switch I still died.

Zwei Drittel das Spiels waren erstmal echt gut, zwar irgendwie zusammenhanglos, aber ich bin davon ausgegangen, es löst sich noch auf. Dann nur echt wirrer Schrott mit noch weniger Zusammenhang und null roter Faden. Nur noch Frust und zielloses umherlaufen.... Das letzte Drittel hat das ganze Game zerstört.

What a boring ass ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game. Whats the point of adding survival elements if the only times I could ever die is through falling to my death (In one annoying ass section) or by getting killed in a total of 3 enemy encounters. This games story is abysmal and all over the place (Specifically because they tried mixing up 3 into 1 (WHICH SOUNDS LIKE A ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ AWFUL IDEA)). So much of me wanted to stop playing this game like 2 hours in, because that's when I started to realize nothing interesting was going to happen, but I said to myself "No, I gotta finish it", and I did. I played four ♥♥♥♥♥♥ hours of this game, and now that's four hours of my life completely wasted. Four those four hours I slumped down to the back of my chair, my arms stretched to their limits to reach my keyboard and mouse, and I waited so long for this game to end, and when it did I shut my computer off and took a 4 hour long nap, in which was so much less of a time waster than this entire game was because at least I had the energy to do anything else with my life after I woke up. As much as I do prefer survival horror games to walking simulator horror games, those walking sims aren't bad if the story is actually worth my while (I say that as someone who actually likes Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs). Its too bad this game was boring as ♥♥♥♥, because I actually had an interest in this game since it came out in 2015, I just never played it until recently. And honestly I wished I never played it at all. If I were to give this game a rating out of 10, I don't even know if I could say 1 out of 10, because I have nothing to complement. Some of my favorite parts in survival horror games (Specifically the ones that are like Amnesia or Outlast) are the monster encounters, and though this game has like 3, they're all the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ same. The developers slap you in a big maze and they're like "Find a way out without getting killed by the monsters" and then you do that. Do they not know how boring and obnoxious this is? They could have made these parts at least somewhat decent, but no. If the story and gameplay were good I could have given this a 8-10/10, If just the gamplay was good but not the story, maybe I'd give a 5-6/10. But considering that both of those things absolutely sucked, I give this game a "This ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ made me kill a puppy"/10. Boring. Repetitive. Depressing. I want to kill myself after I dry-♥♥♥♥ a dead tree. ♥♥♥♥ this game, and ♥♥♥♥ the developers too. Don't think I don't remember the demo. That ♥♥♥♥ slapped compared to this.

ㅤ