Dungeon Team

the game have a discord but it's pretty much useless for the dev/support team does not respond anyway

[quote][b][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtransaction]Warning: Microtransaction infested mobile-tier game![/url][/b] This game is infested with a toxic mobile app style cash shop. You will be prompted to and expected to give money to the developers through this cash shop to buy in-game goods so you can play the game.[/quote] "Dungeon Team" looks exactly like one of thousands of nasty mobile apps infesting the "free" section of Steam, but it's not really free. While I couldn't find this on the app stores, for all intents and purposes this is a mobile app... it has all the same qualities, from the mobile app tier graphics to the shallow gameplay you expect from mobile app cash harvesters. We can't say why this wasn't accepted on the mobile app stores, maybe it's because Google and Apple have QA departments, and Valve has "Steam Direct". There's so many things wrong with this it's hard to know where to start... from some of the worst graphics to insult gamers everywhere to some of the most toxic monetization I've seen in a hot minute here on Steam Direct, this is a train wreck worth taking steps to avoid. Let's break it down. The "game" itself is basically a ripoff of other, much more successful mobile apps like Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms... ignore the fake marketing on this trying to sell it's as a "dungeon crawler", at best this is a lame incrementer/autobattler where... you guessed it, you need to pay cash money to the developers to secure that P2W advantage. Toxic P2W monetization is never, ever okay, and yet here it is. There's only a superficial game here. The game visuals and the game itself are incredibly shallow... think of them as the cheap, bright, colourful plastic cabinet dress theme on a poker machine at the casino. That's basically what this is. So really, the mobile app "game" is just a veneer, a thin skin wrapped around a nasty, predatory mobile app cash shop. Putting that toxic mobile app monetisation aside... this is basically a mobile app on the wrong platform. I didn't spend thousands on a gaming PC so I could pretend it's an iPhone, and I don't think you did either... this kind of mobile app has no place in your Steam library. A quick note about the graphics, too, it's supposed to look like an "ASCII" game but it doesn't actually use ASCII characters for the visuals, it's just super, incredibly lazy 2D visuals (that might be AI slop for all I know) that vaguely resemble an ASCII art image if it got burned into a 14" CRT which was then hit very hard with a sledgehammer and viewed while drunk from a cheap telescope from Temu. And the result is one of the ugliest games on Steam. This is a massive achievement. While I couldn't find this on the mobile app stores, everything about it looks and feels like it's a mobile app designed for mobile phones... for PC gaming enthusiasts, it's not going to give you a cutting edge PC gaming experience. That alone is enough to disqualify this from any recommendation. We don't spend thousands building gaming rigs so that we can pretend they're iPhones and play iPhone games and mobile apps. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. This game is infested with mobile app store like microtransactions. This is a consumer hostile model that we don't need to see on PC. It's deceptively priced to gouge gamers, and that's a reason in itself to avoid this. In terms of public reception, this failed. There's well over 130 million gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at less than 100 concurrent players, they couldn't even break three figures, 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. Since free games don't contribute to your game collector badge and other profile stuff, is this a worthwhile addition to your Steam library? Not on a bet. This might be "free", but I still feel like I got ripped off.