Entropy

One of the best games I've ever played to be honest. It's easy to understand, entertaining, visually appealing, and I love the sound design oh my god it's amazing. If this was a longer game, I would buy it. The game is super dreamy and relaxing, but still has a challenge. I love this game.

"Entropy" is a godawfully lazy, badly made, well, the developer describes this as an "experimental minigame". And far be it for me to tell failed developers how not to fail quite as hard, but if you ever describe a garbage bit of code as an "experiment" or blatantly admit it's not a real game and is just a "microgame", maybe it's not good for gamers for it to be used to pollute Steam with garbage nobody wants. What do you do in the game? This "experimental microgame" has you just grappling blocks to try climb up and not fall down, endlessly. Yeah, it's basically an endless runner, only even worse than all of the other endless runners. The game is really simple and unambitious in terms of implementation, more of a tech demo or one of those cases where an amateur developer spends $100 to publish something on Steam Direct to see if it's possible. Yes, obviously it's possible. A proof of concept, tech demo, or something that's less than a little blip on the radar isn't offering anything truly valuable to gamers. This game features very lacklustre, incredibly lazy minimalist placeholder"art" for graphics instead of anything remotely detailed, expressive or contemporary. I'm sure the "developer" thought this would come across as "artistic", but it doesn't, it comes across as "really lazy". Yes, contemporary 3D graphics take a lot of time and effort to create. That doesn't mean it's okay not to bother! Developers must try to understand that gaming is a visual medium, and gamers spend a lot of money on high end gaming rigs for a reason. And that reason is not so they can look at lazy, phoned-in half efforts like this. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. This is "free" enough (not every "free" game in the "free" section is truly free, there's usually some hidden price tag), at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good, and the cost of a game is more than just financial, your time is valuable too. In terms of public reception, this failed. There's over 130 million unique gamers visiting Steam every month. SteamDB showed the game peaked at [b]only 7 concurrent players[/b]... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Given that this free title won't increase your game collector count, is it worth your time to add it to your library? Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.