DUMB: Treasure

"DUMB: Treasure" is an unusual experimental game, more of a tech demo than anything else, featuring static 2D real world photographs that you navigate through, in a maze underneath the developers bed, somewhere I never, ever wanted to be. What's the game about? This is a point-and-click adventure game with horror elements. The game involves controlling a remote robot to navigate the uninteresting space under a bed, supposedly searching for a lost item described as treasure. The player simply directs the robot through this dark environment by clicking around and clicking on hotspots. The graphics in this game are passable, but could be better. I mean.. obviously photos are realistic. But also... not really computer graphics, are they? Nor is this a fun FMV adventure like "Press X Not To Die". And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here. It's too simple and short. On the matter of pricing and value for gamers, most "free" games on Steam aren't really free. There's often nasty mobile app cash shops, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of shady pricing schemes that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming industry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable, or something you might want to spend your time on. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 4 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? This is a "maybe" experience... if you have a lot of free time on your hands and nothing else to do, why not? But for the purposes of a review, this isn't something I can say everyone must try. It's not quite there. Valve doesn't give us a "maybe" option in reviews, but if they did, that's what I'd choose for this.

Nice, very weird.

Little gem of the Darnkess Under My Bed game series. Really liked this and Game For Anna too.

i liked it.

Your games are never bad.

Super short but fantastic atmosphere. Wish there was more!

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