Sweetie Candy Maze: Blackberry

[quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop][b]Warning: AI Slop[/b][/url] This game is partially or completely made with talentless, soulless AI generated content.[/quote] [b][quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_flip]Warning: Asset Flip![/url][/quote][/b] Sweetie Candy Maze: Blackberry is an asset flip, what Valve calls a "fake game". The "developer", Cute Hannah's Games, took a template from Clickteam Fusion, slapped a couple of asset flipped sprites on it, and dumped the results onto Steam as a cash grab scam. Cute Hannah's Games has shown a repeated pattern of ripping off Clickteam Fusion templates and dumping them on Steam. This Russian developer operates under a number of aliases in an attempt to hide their identity from gamers: [list] [*] Cute Hannah's Games [*] Blender Games [*] Quantum Quiver Games [*] Green Goose Corporation [*] My Label Games [/list] All the same developer. Multiple accounts just to mislead gamers. Don't believe me? Here's some other asset flips from exactly the same template, all shamelessly dumped on Steam as nasty cash grabs: [list] [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/604780]Amaze[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/628750]Amaze 2[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/986990]Amaze Christmas[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/853860]Amaze Classic[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/874010]Amaze Classic: Inverted[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/692200]Amaze Dark Times[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/828910]Amaze Frozen[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/806850]Amaze Gears[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1181220]Amaze Gears 2[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1543470]Amaze Gears 3[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/949030]Amaze Halloween[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1031540]Amaze Lunar[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1017350]Amaze St Patrick[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/776540]Amaze Untouchable[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1001880]Amaze Valentine[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/679660]Amaze Zero[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/4007850]Sweetie Candy Maze: Blueberry[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/4268740]Sweetie Candy Maze: Brown Chocolate[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/4664720]Sweetie Candy Maze: Coral Peach[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/3955120]Sweetie Candy Maze: Green Apple[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/4504010]Sweetie Candy Maze: Lime[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/3886050]Sweetie Candy Maze: Orange[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/4097890]Sweetie Candy Maze: Pink Raspberry[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/4213300]Sweetie Candy Maze: Purple Grape[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/3922210]Sweetie Candy Maze: Red Cherry[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/4343540]Sweetie Candy Maze: Violet Plum[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/4393970]Sweetie Candy Maze: White Chocolate[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/4148490]Sweetie Candy Maze: Yellow Lemon[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1815860]Maze Art: Black[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1815880]Maze Art: Blue[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1816410]Maze Art: Brown[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1816420]Maze Art: Green[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1818790]Maze Art: Orange[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1818800]Maze Art: Pink[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1818810]Maze Art: Purple[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1818820]Maze Art: Rainbow[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1818830]Maze Art: Red[/url]" [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1818840]Maze Art: Yellow[/url]" [/list] Look for yourself... these are all exactly the same game! The products that result from asset flips aren't "real" games. They lack depth and content, because they're just simplistic copies of demos or tutorials. In this case, "Sweetie Candy Maze: Blackberry" is just a basic template for making a browser/mobile tier 2D maze game, and doesn't have any merit as a proper, fully fledged PC game, so this copy+paste of it can't be recommended. Asset flips don't involve any professional game development. Sure, sometimes they may change a few cosmetic things, swap out different assets etc, but at heart it's functionally identical to the asset they're ripping off. Asset flips are an insult to both PC gamers and to professional game developers who create genuine, high quality PC games. Asset flips like this are harmful to the gaming industry and to Steam because they reduce the visibility that sincerely made indie games should have. They make it harder for gamers to find genuine games made by honest developers. To cement the position of this asset flip as nothing but a cash grab, it was dumped onto cheap DailyIndieGame shovelware bundles very shortly after launch. Don't reward this morally bankrupt, unethical behaviour from Cute Hannah's Games. Because this is just a fake game/cash grab scam, and due to the sheer unethical nature of the developer, you should avoid this completely. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 140,000+ games on Steam? Sweetie Candy Maze: Blackberry is relatively cheap at $2 USD, but it's not worth it. This is also competing with over 14,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product. 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 [b]only 2 players[/b]. 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 130 million gamers on Steam and well over 140,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. There's enough defects and quality problems with this game that it's not worth recommending to gamers, but the unethical nature of the developer/their associates makes it completely impossible. Because this is just a fake game/cash grab scam, and due to the sheer unethical nature of the developer, you should avoid this completely. Don't reward this morally bankrupt, unethical behaviour from Cute Hannah's Games. The use of AI slop is a direct insult to gamers and real, ethical content creators and artists everywhere. AI models are trained on copyrighted intellectual property without permission from the owners. [quote][b][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/profile]Profile Features Limited![/url][/b] Valve have marked this game as "Profile Features Limited" at the time of this review. This is usually caused by poor sales figures and low community acceptance for the game (to date). Until this status changes, this game will not give you +1 to your Game Collector badge count, appear in profile achievements or any other Steam meta-accomplishments, nor can it be displayed in some profile showcases. If these factors are important to you, it may be worth holding off before buying this game.[/quote]