Baobabs Mausoleum Ep.1: Ovnifagos Don´t Eat Flamingos

Baobabs Mausoleum Ep.1: Ovnifagos Don´t Eat Flamingos is a handheld (Nintendo Switch)/console game that's also been put on Steam as a bit of an afterthought, as it's very much designed for the handheld/console gaming audience. It's an extremely badly made 2D retro pixel adventure game with a hideous VHS filter that you can thankfully turn off... but your other graphics options are pretty limited (and there's really nothing you can do to remove the ugly pixelcrap beyond uninstalling this train wreck, which I do recommend you do). There's lightweight RPG elements and other things but it's so badly assembled that nothing fits together. The developer, failing to understand the subtlety of surrealist comedy, just threw a whole bunch of random crap together, pounded their chest and yelled "bUy mY gAMe IT's cRAzYYY". So none of that works. This isn't even a complete game, the developer decided instead of wasting $100 on Steam Direct for a game nobody wants, they'd waste $300 and publish the game in thirds. So we have three times the pixelcrap pollution to wade through now. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the lacklustre 2D visuals. Because this is designed for handheld/portable gaming appliances, it carries a number of deliberate design deficiencies. Compromises were made to cater to the low power handheld gaming appliances that the game was designed for. These are unfortunate compromises and limitations that PC gamers shouldn't be forced to accept, but it's evident that PC was a second thought for the mobile game developers. The game is deficient as a result of these choices, and would have been so much better without the handicaps that designing games for low power handhelds forces upon a game. While this might run well on a Steam Deck, we must remember the vast majority of gamers here are gaming on PC. 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 6 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 110,000 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 110,000+ games on Steam? Baobabs Mausoleum Ep.1: Ovnifagos Don´t Eat Flamingos has the laughable price of around $6 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam. For comparison, the $6 asking price for this game could get you games like "Hearts of Iron IV", "Far Cry 5" or "Deep Rock Galactic". No pixelcrap is worth $6. If developers want to get paid the same kind of money as real game developers who know how to do graphics properly, they need to learn how to do graphics properly.

Love this Game

Nice and weird. Unique and also interesting to. Worth every penny of the 50 cents I paid for it. :)

The game quacks at me when I click things. I like it.

trash

4/10 - Feels like someone's "baby" - Names are what you get if you give a native Japanese speaker an English thesaurus - Tries lots of different gameplay styles - More interesting than anything Hideo Kojima helped make

Excellent, bonne ambiance musical et DA originale. Mêle des gameplays variés qui servent la narration.