What The Chuck?

Super Sigma game DO recommend (the bugs are the charm)

The intended feature was a lot of fun

"What The Chuck?" is another case of Itch failing the one job it has, to contain godawful amateur crap and stop it from leaking out onto Steam. But here we are again, this time with an incredibly lame pixelcrap "party brawler", a 2D pixelcrap platformer/arena brawler. Think Super Smash Bros but without any interesting characters and with some of the worst graphics every to assault the eyes. What do you do in the game? Nothing, really, there's no players, the developer couldn't work out how to do online matchmaking, so it's local only, and if you ask your friends to play garbage like this, you soon won't have any friends at all. The use of low-resolution, ugly pixelcrap here is dishonestly presented as a "deliberate artistic choice", but we all know it's because the developer wasn't capable of anything better. The result is a visually unappealing game, especially when compared to thousands of professionally developed games here. Whether the developer lacked the talent for modern visuals or the money to hire an artist is irrelevant. This choice significantly detracts from the game... gaming is a visual medium. Games like Undertale and Stardew Valley are incredibly rare exceptions that made it [i]in spite[/i] of the pixelcrap holding them back (imagine how much better they would be if the graphics didn't suck). Pixelcrap is never okay. Insultingly, the developer insists that you should play this with a console peasant children's toy gamepad instead of KB+M. You cannot play this without a console peasant children's toy. Developers should try to be aware which platform they're designing games for. It's the responsibility of the developer to ensure the game runs well on the platform they're selling it on, with the primary peripherals that PC gamers use. 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. In terms of public reception, this failed. There's over 130 million unique gamers visiting Steam every month. SteamDB showed the game peaked at [b]only 6 concurrent players[/b]... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Given that this free title won't increase your game collector count, is it worth your time to add it to your library? 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.

I appreciate how chucky this game is

nice funny game to play with friends

Didn't know what to expect but turned out to be some of the best fun i've had playing a couch co-op game. Props to the devs for making it possible to be so annoyed at my friends yet so happy to play a game with them without having any idea what's going on. 10/10.