[b][quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_flip]Warning: GameGuru Asset Flip![/url][/quote][/b]Station 228 is a what Valve calls a "Fake Game". The "developer" bought the GameGuru first person shooter construction kit (no coding required, it's just a GUI!) and cobbled out a map or two using stock GameGuru assets... nothing in this game can fully be called the creation of the developer, and yet they also failed to credit GameGuru or acknowlegde any of the GameGuru assets. They're trying (badly) to pass someone else's work as their own.
It's just a bunch of random GameGuru assets dropped around a really lazy, stock textured GameGuru map template. This time the developer sprung (or pirated) a Gameguru sci-fi asset pack and tried to make it look a little like it wasn't a Gameguru asset flip, by changing the default loading screen, but that's about all they did.
Green-eyed Taxi/Narko Games have shown a repeat pattern of unethically dumping other people's work onto Steam as a cheap, nasty cash grab, through this account or through closely linked/alt accounts. Here's some examples so you can see for yourself:
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[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/865310]Dubstep Abasralsa[/url]" = [url=https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Videos/PLZlv_N0_O1gbY4FN8pZuEPVC9PzQThNn1/yS-yQfo0lc0]Blueprint Endless Runner Unity Engine Tutorial[/url] developed by Epic Games
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/709800]HardCore Zboy[/url]" = [url=https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Videos/PLZlv_N0_O1gbY4FN8pZuEPVC9PzQThNn1/yS-yQfo0lc0]Blueprint Endless Runner Unity Engine Tutorial[/url] developed by Epic Games
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/832550]Tetripank[/url]" = [url=https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/project-files-riftris-tetris-clone/53200]Riftris - Tetris Clone[/url] developed by CrowPath
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/744220]AI Dummy[/url]" = [url=https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/crash-test-robot-dummy]Crash Test Robot Dummy[/url] developed by Adrian M
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Let's be clear, GameGuru is a completely godawful construction kit. If you try to take it seriously as a game, you'll find no resolution or graphics tweaks, no controller tweaks... it's horribly optimised and will be sluggish even on high end rigs.
You can make the argument that GameGuru exists to just make demos and little experimental games to pass around with friends, but that's not what's happened here... the developer is seriously trying to scam people into paying money for this construction kit copy+paste asset flip. That's not okay!
There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision.
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.
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 3 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 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.
It's also important to note the "developer" here has connections to a number of shady Russian asset flippers and review manipulators who show an organised pattern to scam and defraud gamers with fake reviews and asset flipping the work of others for profit. While reviews are about the games, gamers should be informed when developers act unethically. Whether these connections are the same developer using multiple accounts, or just working closely with other unethical developers, gamers should be warned about the harm to gamers by this developer and their associates. Buying games from unethical developers puts your money at risk.
So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam?
Station 228 is relatively cheap at $1 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 11,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.
