Nullysun is yet another of literally thousands of 2D retro pixel platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. This particular shovelware is from the asset flippers at Metal Fox, famous for stealing the assets from real developers and slapping their own name on it, to scam you into paying them for someone else's work. Nullysun is just a copy + pasted "ball rolling" platformer puzzle game made by copying a basic platformer template in Unity, probably no more than a weekend's effort, but this should be no surprise given the "developer" and their prior record here.
Metal Fox/Nullysun Studio have a known history of trying to scam people into paying them money for someone else's work, through this account or through closely linked/alt accounts. An example of Metal Fox/Nullysun Studio doing this is [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/798560]Inaccessible world[/url], which is really "[url=https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/templates/systems/ultimate-survival-80368]Ultimate Survival[/url]", written by the actual developers, Winterbyte. Also, [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/916640]HecatoncheirStory[/url], which is really "[url=https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/templates/tutorials/3d-game-kit-115747]3D Game Kit[/url]", developed by Unity Technologies.
Taking this shovelware seriously as if it was a genuine attempt to make a game, it doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.
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.
The game features extremely lazy, minimalist "art", of the type you normally expect to see in low effort Flash/browser games and mobile apps. Considering this is being evaluated as a PC game, having the graphics phoned in like this isn't going to result in a high quality, visually impressive game that PC gamers are used to seeing.
The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers.
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 10 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 50,000 games for gamers to choose from (over 9,000 completely free titles), the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.
Nullysun is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price and the unethical nature of the developer, this is impossible to recommend.
