Tavern Crawl

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It's really nice little game, with so amazing and original concept. Even the graphics and music aren't best, the game is really charming and cute. I highly recomend playing it, it takes a bit of your heart.

"Tavern Crawl" is a student project, a third person brawler where you control a mouse and must steal alcohol. Believe it or not I've seen worse ideas for video games. What do you do in the game? There some rather difficult third person brawling here as you adventure around the low poly/cartoonish environments, plod through some narrative... it's more "complete" than a lot of amateur games but it definitely needs more polish, to fix issues like the sluggish controls, poor optimisation and so on. The graphics in this game are passable, but could be better. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here. Not every "free" game really is. There's often MTX, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of things 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. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 14 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? 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.