Toriki: The Castaway Island

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"Toriki: The Castaway Island" is not a game. Games contain meaningful gamelike interaction and game loops, which are absent in this software. Instead of being a game, "Toriki: The Castaway Island" is a companion application to the similarly titled boardgame. If you download this thinking this is a game (because that's how they published this), you will find you cannot actually "play" it. Instead you must go out and buy a physical board game (a board game that was a dismal failure, by the way) and then you have to download and use this non-game application to play that board game. Ugh. So, this is also not free as it's tied to a physical goods purchase. And as a staunch advocate for gamers, one of the things that most gets on my pet peeves is when developers deliberately seek out to mislead gamers for profit, which is exactly what's going on here. This is not a game, yet it is published as one. This is not free, yet it is published as if it is. Misleading gamers and abusing Steam like this is wrong. 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". This has misleadingly been launched in the "Games" section of Steam instead of the "Software" section. This is a common mistake for developers who are new to Steam, or don't understand the difference between games and software which isn't a game. It seems this software published incorrectly as a game is simply lack of experience/knowledge of the correct process. Here's a link for the process to publish non-game software on Steam: [url=https://help.steampowered.com/en/wizard/HelpWithPublishing?issueid=925]Steam Developer Help With Software Publishing[/url] It's unfortunate this process was not known about/followed, resulting in a software application being published in the wrong place. Publishing things which aren't games on Steam in the Games section as games is misleading to gamers and somewhat harmful, because it pollutes the Steam marketplace and takes away visibility and market exposure for genuine game developers who do the right thing and make games for gamers. There are no gameplay loops in this software, no "gameplay", no meaningful game like interaction. It's a software application and as such has no merits as a video game for gamers. Because of this, I cannot recommend this non-game software as a game to gamers. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 130 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB shows this peaked at [b]only 3 concurrent users[/b]... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. And, far be it for me to tell failed boardgame developers why they're such failures, but if you design a board game so badly you can't play it without a crap software application, you have failed completely at your job and should depart the industry and never return.