The Voices Games 3d Collection is a very poorly assembled collection of very poorly made 3D amateur games, which really does hammer home the theory that there's two kinds of amateur developers. The kind that can't get a job in the gaming industry because they have personality problems, and the kind that can't get a job in the gaming industry because they really suck at game development. Either way, the games that come out of this usually aren't very good at all. In the case of these games, as far as I can tell the developers don't have any personality problems. So it's the other reason.
The games all come across as if they're game jam demos or something (if true, this would be unethical because these are being sold for profit, so we'll give the developer the benefit of the doubt and assume they are sincerely, but badly made). They're all low poly, clunky, buggy, barely working things that seem to have been slapped together in a couple of hours (I hope they didn't spend a lot of time on these, because the quality truly is terrible, but if that is the case, the developers have still chosen to put them on Steam and make them a problem for gamers anyway). Looking past the poor technical execution, the games are extremely shallow affairs, just minimalist platform shooters etc... no actual value for gamers even if they were put together with bleeding edge 8K visuals.
From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.
There's no options to change the resolution for the games or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure they are running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee these games will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics.
The games feature lazy low-polygon "retro" assets, making them look like barely functional 3Ds game from the 1990s. It's unclear why the developers weren't able to arrange high quality, high polygon count contemporary assets for the games, and also irrelevant... what matters is that they look 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 games unplayable for differently-abled gamers.
These technical defects push these games below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
The poor quality of these games is reflected by how many people spent time with them. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 2 players across all games. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading them up to see what they are then quickly uninstalling them. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from (over 9,000 completely free titles), the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game package is to be expected.
The Voices Games 3d Collection is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the games, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend.
[b][quote][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/profile]Profile Features Limited![/url][/quote][/b]Valve have marked these games as "Profile Features Limited" at the time of this review. This is usually caused by poor sales figures and low community acceptance for the game (to date). Until this status changes, these games 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 these games.
