The Story Of

The Story Of isn't a game, it's an art exhibition that's been dumped on Steam, presumably because the local art galleries took out a restraining order on the "artists" who had no other choice but to pay Valve $100 to dump this on Steam. For those unfamiliar with what actually makes something a game, a "game loop" describes the interaction and feedback a gamer has when playing a game. Tetris, for example, has a game loop where a random block appears, the gamer interacts with the block to position it, and then the game decides if that finishes a row or not, increases the players score if any rows were completed, then gives the gamer another block to position. Counter-Strike has a game loop where a player seeks another player, tests their skill against that player by shooting them or being shot, the computer rewards the player if they win, and then if the player survives, they repeat that loop. There's no loop here, no true interactive feedback. It simply is not a game, it cannot be "played". All you do here is muck around in a sandbox that grows a "world" along predefined courses. That's it, you just click and look. The poor quality of this non-game art exhibition is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the game all-time peak user count was only ONE user. That's right, only one person ever viewed this art exhibition at a time. When I viewed this for the purposes of reviewing it, I equalled the peak viewer count for the software. OUCH. The only user activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 110,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality non-game art exhibition is to be expected. So, should you buy this garbage pretending to be "art"? The Story Of is relatively cheap at $3 USD, but it's not even a game. This is also competing with over 14,000 free, real games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product. [quote][b][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/profile]Profile Features Limited![/url][/b] Valve have marked this software as "Profile Features Limited" at the time of this review. This is usually caused by poor sales figures and low community acceptance for the software (to date). Until this status changes, this software will not give you +1 to your Game Collector badge count, appear in profile achievements or any other Steam meta-accomplishments, nor can it be displayed in some profile showcases. If these factors are important to you, it may be worth holding off before buying this garbage.[/quote]

Even flash games have more quality than this

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