"Traders and Tricksters" is a spin on an old card game I used to play called "Cheat", the idea is that you trade cards around but you can also cheat and give people cards that weren't requested to benefit yourself and harm them... of course there's a risk in doing so.
The game is presented badly with a really shockingly poor UI (I know you have to put screenshots of your game up on the store page but it must have hurt for this one knowing how bad it looks), and of course, it's a multiplayer game with ZERO players. If you download this, you're not going to get into a match. It cannot be played.
The game features really lacklustre 2D visuals (does the developer not know 3D graphics became mainstream in the mid-1990s?). Gamers don't spend thousands of dollars on gaming rigs to pretend they're mobile phones or Commodore 64s. This could have been done in a web browser.
Not every "free" game really is. There's often MTX, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of things that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game.
Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming industry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable.
Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 3 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away.
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?
Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.
