The Packages

The Packages is a mobile app tier minimalist "puzzle" game where you must direct packages to their goal as quickly as possible to get your mobile app "three stars" for completing each level. Sigh. Mobile app tier garbage doesn't belong on Steam. While this looks a lot like a Unity asset flip, I don't believe it is simply on the basis that the developer is selling their own packages on the Unity Asset Store and this isn't one of them. Also, they haven't bothered buying any positive reviews for this (yet), as many South American "developers" often do when flipping other people's asset packs. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. The game features lazy low-polygon "retro" assets, making this look like a barely functional 3D game from the 1990s. It's unclear why the developers weren't able to arrange high quality, high polygon count contemporary assets for the game, and also irrelevant... what matters is that this looks bad as a result of their decisions, a compromise PC gamers shouldn't have to put up with. The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers. This looks and feels like a mobile app, but I wasn't able to find it on the app stores. Maybe it was removed, maybe it was rejected by Apple and Google (they do have more rigorous quality standards than Valve does for Steam, after all). Regardless, for all intents and purposes this is a mobile app, it has the same limitations and dumbed down qualities. It's impossible to recommend such a game to PC gamers. We don't spend all this money building gaming rigs so we can pretend they're iPhones. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The Packages has an overly optimistic price of around $4 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam.