"ThanksTaking" is a laughably bad joke game that was dumped on Steam as a paid product. A simple and pointless premise, you're a turkey and you fight all the people trying to kill and cook you for Thanksgiving. I don't think this was inspired by vegans, just the hope that if someone should dump a joke game on Steam with a big price tag on it, it will go "viral" and the developer will make lots of money from his joke. This happens a lot, unfortunately, so Steam is polluted with a lot of terrible quality joke games nobody wanted. Like this.
What do you do in the game? It's just top down brawling with deplorably low graphics, bad controls, and zero fun beyond the not even funny joke premise.
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.
There's no initial download price, but the developer was charging $9 USD for this.
Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It seems like a nice gesture for the game to have no up-front cost anymore, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product. This is also a bit of a slap in the face to anyone who showed enough questionable judgement to pay money for this... nobody got refunded.
Even as a free game, this couldn't find an audience. With a peak of [b]only 4 players[/b], it's clear the Steam community took one look and walked away. They literally couldn't pay people to spend time playing this.
This "free" game won't count toward your game collection count on your profile. With that in mind, is it something you should still download?
Definitely not. This is impossible to recommend. To quote another Steam reviewer, this should be a paid product... they should be paying people to download it.
One final note, there's so many games on Steam, it would be impossible for anyone to play all of them in one lifetime (although I am trying). As gamers, our time is important and we have the luxury of choosing between so many games... but so many of them are so badly made, often unethically through incompetence or greed, so I think it's important for gamers to help each other find the games that deserve our time. If you don't agree with my review here, prove me wrong, download this game and play it for yourself. My reviews are just intended to help gamers make informed choices, and I hope they help you, too.
