Cult Of Babel : Prologue

Game was solid. Few hits kill you, so you need to be on your toes. There was a lot of upgrades to choose from, and the biggest problem I had was that my game started to lagg down from all particles flowing around. Might need to look over the performance of the code, or request that people have pretty strong computers. As it is a demo, there was just two characters to play but they both felt like they had a slight variation between them.

"Cult Of Babel : Prologue" is is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "Cult of Babel". Cult of Babel, at first value, looked like just another basic copyright infringing ripoff of Poncle's Vampire Survivors (copyright 2021). But it turns out it was a bit of an Early Access scam as the developers sold quite a few copies of the game in Early Access then yanked the game from the Steam store... while gleefully pocketing all the money they swindled out of gamers. Nobody got refunded. Disgusting, isn't it? But this isn't completely relevant because this is not Cult of Babel, it's just an advertisment for it, so it's not correct to try to review that completely distinct product. We must instead review this for what it is... an advertisement. If you enjoy advertisements, you can consume them for free on the web or on Youtube without needing to add them to your game library, download them, and then launch the advertising. It's impossible in a general sense to recommend people should do that over playing real, full games on Steam, and that applies here with "Cult Of Babel : Prologue" too. The purpose of this advertisement is to get you to shell out a whopping $5 USD on buying Cult of Babel, and I don't recommend you do that either. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. As an advertisement, this is only free in the same way that adverts on Youtube and banner ads in your browser are. This is a game demo that's been dumped on Steam to advertise another Steam store page in the hopes of raking in some cash. Just because advertisements are free, doesn't mean they're worth your time. It's important to understand there's a formal process to create a demo/page for a game which hasn't been followed here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos While it might seem like an inocuous mistake, publishing demos and advertisements as if they are full games is misleading and in some ways harmful. This advertisement is taking up marketing space and visibility that would be better made available to a developer that's done the right thing and created a full game. Instead, that visibility is given over to a demo/advert that's been published incorrectly and is polluting the marketplace. It's unclear if this mistake was made through incompetence or a deliberate intent to mislead gamers. Often developers may choose to incorrectly publish demo/advertisements as separate games as a cheap way to bypass paying Valve for marketing presence on the Steam front page, which may seem clever to them, but it's harmful behaviour and it's not good for gamers. In terms of public reception, this failed to appeal to the 130 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at just a dozen or so concurrent players, and now there's basically nobody playing it. Even though it's free. This is a dismal public reception, but it's easy to see why gamers rejected it. Advertisements and incorrectly published demos don't add +1 to your game collector count, they aren't full games. It's impossible for me to recommend this incorrectly published advertising spam to gamers, you deserve better than adverts.