"The Shape of Time" is not a game, it's a virtual art exhibition. What happens is that often artists get kicked out of art school and instead of heading back to getting my order wrong at McDonalds, they pay $100 and dump their art on Steam, which is for PC games, and not art exhitibions from failed artists. So, this isn't a game, you can't "play" it, there's no game loops, you just walk around and look at stuff that's vaguely time themed as, from time to time, actual successful artists have experimented with time in art. You won't learn much from this, and as far as art exhibitions go, it looks "ok", but isn't winning any awards as far as PC games go. Steam. For PC games, remember?
The graphics in this game are really quite good, which at least makes the game look more appealing. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here.
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.
Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 4 concurrent viewers... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Imagine an art gallery that only had 4 people in it at it's peak. They'd close their doors and never darken the art industry again.
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. While this didn't cost me any money up front, I still feel ripped off.
