The Gametrekking Omnibus

This is a collection of short interactive art pieces, photos, and essays inspired by the creator's journey through Asia, starting in Korea. It's presented in a collage that can be explored in any order at leisure. Most of the games are extremely minimalist and a little oblique without context. However, with the context their meaning resonates both as introductions to culture and history, but also personal experiences. It's a mix of striking memorable surprises and mundane mood pieces. The essays are quite long and detailed, but very interesting as a look into vagabond lifestyle. [code]Learning Korean? 한국어를 배우는 분들을 아세요? [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/39821881/]Games for Learners Curator[/url][/code]

"The Gametrekking Omnibus" is a collection of low quality/minimalist minigames with a veneer of travel inspired scenery. What do you do in the game? While the premise is charming, the gameplay experience you go through is lacklustre at best, extremely minimalist stuff like just moving your mouse around. The developer even describes these as "notgames". I agree. But we're here for games, so that's a problem! This game features very lacklustre minimalist "art" for graphics instead of anything remotely contemporary. I'm sure the "developer" thought this would come across as "artistic", but it doesn't, it comes across as "really lazy". Yes, contemporary 3D graphics take a lot of time and effort to create. That doesn't mean it's okay not to bother! Developers must try to understand that gaming is a visual medium, and gamers spend a lot of money on high end gaming rigs for a reason. And that reason is not so they can look at lazy, phoned-in half efforts like this. 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 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.