三国模拟器 Three Kingdoms Simulator is a very badly made Unity based "Action RPG" set in the Three Kingdoms era of China.
There's no English translation for the game, but that's ok. It turns out, the language of bad games is universal.
From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.
A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result.
There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game 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 controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
The poor quality of this game is reflected in the general public reception. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 3 players. That's right, only 3. One for each Kingdom! This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player 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 50,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in the game is to be expected. Gamers just didn't take this low quality game seriously, and for good reason.
三国模拟器 Three Kingdoms Simulator has the laughable price of $6 USD, for which you could easily get any number of older AAA games, let alone the sheer number of free games available on Steam. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend.
[quote][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/reviews]Developer Response![/url][/quote]
The developer has weighed in to inform everyone they didn't read the [url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/reviews]Developer Usage Rules[/url] for Steam "partners", or they deliberately ignored the part where Valve says:
[quote]Though it may be tempting, not every review needs to be responded to. A developer response will frequently draw more attention than the original statement, potentially turning a small issue into a much larger community discussion. It's also not a good idea to use this feature to refute customer opinions. Your direct attention can be seen as validation or a defensive attempt to silence your customers.[/quote]
The developer weirdly tries to change the goalposts of this review, a somewhat arrogant and ignorant stance to take. But first, they acknowledge the game has bad graphics. So why did they insult gamers by publishing a knowingly defective product on Steam? This tells us all we need to know about this "developer".
If I spoke fluent Mandarin or Cantonese, would the graphics improve, would the game suddenly get options to change resolution and all the other defects in the game suddenly become resolved? Of course not. More arrogance from the developer.
The developer then lists a series of "features" inside the game that have no bearing on the objectively poor quality of the game. Gamers don't care if your character in the game gets to cure cancer and have a million babies, because the quality is so deplorably low... something I made sure gamers know in my review, and something [i]the developer agreed to be true[/i].
The developer bizarrely claims I am "wrong" and brings up a series of points I never mentioned and which are irrelevant to the quality of the game, to prove an imaginary argument going on in his apparently traumatised headspace.
Using the developers bizarre, twisted logic, I can conclusively prove the developer is 99/21 wrong and only 1/47 right, because the game doesn't support AMD TressFX. Which is something he never mentioned in his response to my review, thus, because he never mentioned it, according to his logic, he's wrong. Yes, that's how the "developer" actually conducts reasoning in his head.
So, don't give a completely wrong judgement by making up imaginary arguments with your paying customers when you got caught dumping garbage onto Steam.
