Unblocking

"Unblocking" is a pointless VR tech demo, a weak ripoff of Tetris only, somehow, even more dumbed down. What do you do in the game? Wave your arms around in VR to drag blocks onto a tetris grid to make lines, because the devs couldn't work out falling block mechanics I guess. Game development is hard, but it's ok, you don't need to actually be good at game development, all you have to do is make your game VR exclusive and the cash rolls in... right? The game is really simple and unambitious in terms of implementation, more of a tech demo or one of those cases where an amateur developer spends $100 to publish something on Steam Direct to see if it's possible. Yes, obviously it's possible. A proof of concept, tech demo, or something that's less than a little blip on the radar isn't offering anything truly valuable to gamers. The graphics aren't great, Lazy minimum effort low poly stuff. That's understandably a turn off for a lot of gamers, and it's a big contributor to the failure of the game to attract gamers despite having no up-front cost. Gaming is a primarily visual medium, and if developers want to succeed, they must understand that it's not an area for compromise. You deserve better than compromises. It's VR exclusive, and that shows the developer failed to understand the most basic axiom of VR game design... if the only cool thing about your product is VR support, your product is not cool. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. There's no initial download price, but the developer was charging $12 USD for this. For a Tetris ripoff. The developer wanted your money for their ripoff of someone else's game. Wow. Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It seems like a nice gesture for the game to have no up-front cost anymore, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product. This is also a bit of a slap in the face to anyone who showed enough questionable judgement to pay money for this... nobody got refunded. 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 2 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? Nope. This isn't worth downloading. There's no financial cost up-front, but you'd still be spending your time and a little hard drive space on a product that's far from the best. There's thousands of better alternatives on Steam.

Игра 'Unblocking' – это приятный способ развлечься и немного потренировать логическое мышление. Цель проста: передвигать блоки, чтобы освободить путь для красного блока к выходу. На первый взгляд, всё кажется элементарным, но с каждым уровнем задачи становятся всё сложнее и требуют более продуманных ходов. Что мне понравилось: интуитивно понятный интерфейс, который позволяет сразу погрузиться в игровой процесс. Уровни хорошо продуманы и предлагают разнообразные головоломки. Приятная, спокойная музыка помогает сосредоточиться, но не отвлекает. Радует, что игра бесплатная и не перегружена навязчивой рекламой, всплывающей каждые пять секунд. Однако, стоит отметить, что игра может показаться однообразной после прохождения большого количества уровней. Иногда не хватает каких-то подсказок, чтобы выбраться из тупика, а функция "решения" есть не всегда или требуется просмотр рекламы. В целом, это хорошая головоломка, чтобы скоротать время, но не стоит ждать от неё революционных механик или глубокого сюжета. Рекомендую для тех, кто любит классические головоломки и не ждёт от игры слишком многого.

An all-around fun game and a great spin on Tetris in VR!

A headache inducing mess of a game, I enjoy block clearing games with intelligent and intuitive game mechanics but this ain't one of them, avoid.

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