Woodways

"Woodways" is a simple "I can't believe it's not a mobile app" puzzle game, distantly related to games like Sokoban, where you must move little critters to their goals on each puzzle grid. The gimmick here is that the critters all move at the same time, so your sequencing has to be perfect to make sure they all go to the right place. That's all there is to it. 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. It's free... now, but it wasn't before. The developer was charging $5 USD for this (delusions of grandeur!). Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It's a nice gesture for the game to be given away for free, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 7 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.