Terror On The Bayou

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Whooooo Congrats Terror on the Bayou Team on release!!! I know how hard some of you worked on this and its so cool to see the labors of all of your hard work! - Art, obviously amazing - Design, enjoyed the different paths to the light house, encourages replay in finding all narrative notes (which were great btw) - Sound, spooking and really captured that feeling of the Bayou. - Monster, disturbing lol Yall killed it!

"Terror On The Bayou" is an unusual third person adventure game with a novel premise. You navigate a canoe through a hostile swamp, encountering hazards and a mysterious predator. The story revolves around you taking on the role of a lighthouse keeper to protect the area, or becoming prey in the process. Gameplay involves canoe-like movement controls, exploration of a dangerous environment, and collecting lore. It's also, unfortunately, kinda boring, and wrestling with the wonky canoe controls is not nearly as fun as the developers thought it would be. The graphics aren't great, generally low poly stuff, and the stylised painting textures do take some of the edge off, but not enough that this looks recommentable from a visuals standpoint. That's understandably a turn off for a lot of gamers, and it's a big contributor to the failure of the game to attract gamers despite having no up-front cost. Gaming is a primarily visual medium, and if developers want to succeed, they must understand that it's not an area for compromise. You deserve better than compromises. On the matter of pricing and value for gamers, most "free" games on Steam aren't really free. There's often nasty mobile app cash shops, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or 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. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 2 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? Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough. I don't get a "maybe" option but this comes close to deserving one.