Star-Wired

A cute, short game that kept me entertained. While I recommend this for anyone looking to kill a short amount of time with some unique puzzles, I will say it feels like a demo, and could also use more polish - most of the puzzles were very easy, and I was able to cheese the final level. But I think this could be the foundation for something spectacular.

wow. a genuine article. none came before, as this is one of a kind. im awestruck at the sheer complexity, dynamics, and story this game offers. i was driven to tears. this, my fellow friends, is a must play title.

"Star-Wired" is one of literally thousands of student projects infesting Steam. It's from the Catholic research institution, DePaul University in the USA. While student projects tend to be better quality than most "amateur" made games, we must still question what value such projects have for gamers. As with all student projects, this isn't really a fully fleshed out game, it's just the result of an academic exercise, and as such it has much more limited value as a game than a professionally developed game would have. Educational institutions should not be using Steam as a dumping ground for homework assignments (especially if the students didn't even pass the course). Sure, it helps their marketing and helps the students feel good about themselves, but this is another case of a business putting themselves before the needs of gamers. This is an unusual puzzle game, while the mechanics aren't unique, they are rare. Basically this is a game of routing cables with janky game physics to complete each puzzle level by getting the paths right. In terms of visuals, this features fairly low quality low poly 3D graphics which will deter a lot of gamers, understandably. Gaming is a visual medium, and while some developers struggle with creating high quality visuals, failing to do so is a disservice to gamers. It's very difficult to recommend bad looking games. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. It would be unethical for students to try charge money for their homework assignments, so you don't have to pay any money for this. But you'd still have to spend your time downloading this, and "time is money", as they say. So much for the matter of pricing. Most "free" games on Steam aren't really free. There's usually some kind of monetisation, from nasty mobile app cash shops, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, to any other number of shady pricing schemes that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming industry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable, or something you might want to spend your time on. In terms of public reception, this failed. There's over 130 million unique gamers visiting Steam every month. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 3 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Although, in fairness I've seen many, many much worse games do much better than this. 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? This is a "maybe" experience... if you have a lot of free time on your hands and nothing else to do, why not? But for the purposes of a review, this isn't something I can say everyone must try. It's not quite there. Valve doesn't give us a "maybe" option in reviews, but if they did, that's what I'd choose for this.

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It's still a bit buggy and there were a few unintended ways to solve the puzzles, but I think this game has lots of potential, and what I've played so far is pretty fun and interesting! The designs are fun and adorable, too... Bit has already captured my heart <3 I'd love to see more as the game is quite short, but what we've already seen is worth giving a try!

Its a cool little game! Some of the physics are wonky and the puzzles can be finicky to get working, but thats kinda to be expected for a small project working with a concept like physics based puzzling and for the most part everything is doable and satisfying to complete. The game is gorgeous visually with tons of character and life in all the environments.

This game changed my life