The Argument Solver

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I settled my divorce with this app and all I got was the sandwich press and the kids once a fortnight. 9/10 would use this to mediate again.

"The Argument Solver" is a poorly made joke game, from what I can tell. The idea is you pick another person to play with you and then you can have an "argument" by throwing objects at each other in a primitive 2D iso arena. I've played better Flash games in the 1990s. Needless to say this was a complete and utter failure here on Steam. What do you do in the game? Gameplay mechanics center around throwing objects in a 2D arena against another player, but you'll have a hard time convincing anyone to waste their time on this. It's also badly made, while the pixelcrap looking retro graphics look "clean", they still come across as incredibly lazy. And the rest of the game is unpolished and clunky. So this looks like an old 1990's Adobe Flash game that you might play in a web browser, and the problem there is obviously Steam wasn't intended to try compete with Chrome and Firefox. If it can be done in a web browser, it's not even close to a cutting edge PC gaming experience. That's a problem. On the topic of visuals, the weak looking 2D retro assets seem like they'd be more at home in a browser game or a mobile app. 3D graphics accelerators hit the mainstream of PC gaming in the mid 1990's with cards like the ATI Rage and Voodoo3D, there's no excuse for such poor 2D graphics in 2025. That alone is enough to disqualify this for recommendation. On pricing, this is "free" enough, at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good, and the cost of a game is more than just financial, your time is valuable too. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 4 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? Nope. This isn't worth downloading. There's no financial cost up-front, but you'd still be spending your time and a little hard drive space on a product that's far from the best. There's thousands of better alternatives on Steam.