Virion

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This is a fun top down shooter, the mods give it replay value and allow you to find what play style suits you best. This was covered as part of this week's episode of Free2Play Weekly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1m4-LHqPgQ&t=685

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"Virion" is an engaging top-down shooter that offers significant replay value through its various mods, enabling players to discover their preferred play style. I have completed the first level, but I found the virus upgrade to be less effective than I anticipated. The robots certainly stick to their programming. Overall, I enjoy this game, particularly for its replayability. If there's one takeaway from this review, it's to give the game a try.

"Virion" is a really badly made 2D top down twin stick combat game with no content or reason for anyone to play it. You control a robot made in MS-Paint and run around procgen levels killing stuff that was also made in MS-Paint. So this looks like an old 1990's Adobe Flash game that you might play in a web browser, and the problem there is obviously Steam wasn't intended to try compete with Chrome and Firefox. If it can be done in a web browser, it's not even close to a cutting edge PC gaming experience. That's a problem. 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. In terms of visuals, this features really godawful MS-Paint tier "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks much worse than most other games because of that decision, and that's a major deterrent to gamers. The deplorably bad visuals here come across as an insult to gamers. The developer chose not to do the job of a real game developer and create meaningful bespoke levels, narrative based gameplay progression and so on. Instead, they decided that "Procgen IS content!" and lazily tried to use procgen algorithms to create infinite, samey, repetitive, soulless levels, because that's a lot less work. As a result of this poor decision, the game gets tired and repetitive almost immediately. Developers must learn that procgen is a terrible substitute for creating real content. It should not be used as "ez-mode" for content creation, as the developer tried to do here. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. This is "free" enough (not every "free" game in the "free" section is truly free, there's usually some hidden price tag), at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good, and the cost of a game is more than just financial, your time is valuable too. The poor quality of this game is also reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the game all-time peak user count was only ONE person. That's right, only one person ever used this at a time. When I tried this for the purposes of reviewing it, I equalled the peak user count for the product. OUCH. The only user 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 130 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality product is to be expected. 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? This is a hard pass. There's no immediate financial commitment, but there are thousands of more compelling games on the platform that will give you a lot more enjoyment for your time.

Игра "Virion" приятно удивила своей необычной смесью жанров. Визуально она выполнена в стилистике пиксельного ретро, что добавляет ей шарма. Сюжет, хоть и не самый оригинальный, затягивает благодаря интересным персонажам и продуманному миру. Боевая система ощущается приятно, особенно если увлечься прокачкой и подбором экипировки. Исследование мира вознаграждается находками и скрытыми локациями. Единственный минус – иногда встречаются незначительные баги, но они не сильно портят общее впечатление. В целом, это добротный и увлекательный рогалик, который сможет занять вас на несколько часов. Любителям жанра рекомендую!