This asset flip has you fighting waves of asset flipped zombies on a single map while doing a couple of fetch quests... even as far as asset flips go, this one is badly assembled and plays terribly. Only a bare minimum of effort was put into putting this together... it's a true testament to just how harmful Steam Direct has proven to be to the average level of quality of all video games on Steam, with shovelware like this pulling the average down sharply.
Needless to say this asset flip has zero real value for gamers as a product... and the kicker is, this isn't a free tech demo or anything, the developer genuinely wants your money for it! It's also, amusingly, proof that Microids don't bother vetting games from their indie program to see if they're asset flips. Ouch.
Two notable criteria for what makes an asset flip instead of legitimate use of stock assets are whether those assets comprise the majority of the game, and whether the "developer" properly credited the people who created most of the assets in the game. This game fails both of those tests. The "developers" here didn't credit any of the artists and real, actual game developers who created the assets here, so this is plagiarism, as well as cash grab shovelware.
Taking this shovelware seriously as if it was a genuine attempt to make a game, it doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.
The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers, left handed gamers or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 8 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player 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 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.
So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam?
ALPAGES : THE FIVE BOOKS is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, and the questionable ethical nature of the developer and/or their associates (as outlined above), this is impossible to recommend. Remember that if you buy a game from an unethical developer, you're putting your money at risk.
