Twistingo Free

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"Twistingo Free" is is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "a variety of Twistingo mobile apps". a variety of Twistingo mobile apps is mobile app garbage, and not even original stuff, the mobile devs here have ripped off Bingo, other people's HOG (Hidden Object Games) and they even ripped off Luxor (copyright MumboJumbo, 2005). I do hope MumboJumbo sues. You can't just steal other people's intellectual property, game mechanics and so on. Tetris Holdings LLC vs Xio Interactive shows us that. But this isn't completely relevant because this is not any of the full Twistingo mobile apps, it's just an advertisment for them, so it's not correct to try to review that completely distinct product. We must instead review this for what it is... an advertisement. If you enjoy advertisements, you can consume them for free on the web or on Youtube without needing to add them to your game library, download them, and then launch the advertising. It's impossible in a general sense to recommend people should do that over playing real, full games on Steam, and that applies here with "Twistingo Free" too. This is only a tiny demo pack to try get you to buy their other mobile apps here on Steam. Don't be fooled into thinking there's anything of value here. The purpose of this advertisement is to get you to shell out a whopping $400 USD on buying a variety of Twistingo mobile apps, and I don't recommend you do that either. This is a mobile app... it doesn't matter if this was ported to PC before or after the app store release, or even if this didn't even make it to the app stores. This is built for the absolutely lowest of all gaming platforms and must be judged as such... it's not going to give you a cutting edge PC gaming experience. That alone is enough to disqualify this from any recommendation. We don't spend thousands building gaming rigs so that we can pretend they're iPhones and play iPhone games and mobile apps. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. As an advertisement, this is only free in the same way that adverts on Youtube and banner ads in your browser are. This is a game demo that's been dumped on Steam to advertise another Steam store page in the hopes of raking in some cash. Just because advertisements are free, doesn't mean they're worth your time. It's important to understand there's a formal process to create a demo/page for a game which hasn't been followed here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos While it might seem like an inocuous mistake, publishing demos and advertisements as if they are full games is misleading and in some ways harmful. This advertisement is taking up marketing space and visibility that would be better made available to a developer that's done the right thing and created a full game. Instead, that visibility is given over to a demo/advert that's been published incorrectly and is polluting the marketplace. It's unclear if this mistake was made through incompetence or a deliberate intent to mislead gamers. Often developers may choose to incorrectly publish demo/advertisements as separate games as a cheap way to bypass paying Valve for marketing presence on the Steam front page, which may seem clever to them, but it's harmful behaviour and it's not good for gamers. In terms of public reception, this failed. There's over 130 million unique gamers visiting Steam every month. 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. Advertisements and incorrectly published demos don't add +1 to your game collector count, they aren't full games. It's impossible for me to recommend this incorrectly published advertising spam to gamers, you deserve better than adverts.