Oh Baby Kart

[quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain_game][b]Warning: NFT/Blockchain Game[/b][/url] This game is backed by blockchain/NFT trading and crypto tokens. To evade Valve's outright ban on games like this, the store page hides the NFT core of the game from Steam users... but you'll quickly be told to create a third party account outside of Steam so you can start earning and trading the NFT's baked into every aspect of this game. This is a cryptoscam and should be avoided.[/quote] [quote][b]Note: Dead PvP game[/b] This game contains no meaningful single player content. There's no viably populated servers/active player population. This game cannot be played as intended.[/quote] "Oh Baby Kart" is an NFT scam run by cryptobros... just a thin veneer of a mobile tier kart racer game wrapped around the blockchain core... like all "crypto" games this has died an embarrassing death because the focus for cryptobros is always toxic monetisation and not actually making a game for gamers. The game has to be "just enough" to look like a game so they can push their non-fungible tokens. What do you do in the game? Head to the non-Steam website to buy and sell NFTs. FFS. This kind of thing is supposed to be banned on Steam. The primary blockchain that backs this NFT game is Ethereum, and Oh Baby sell hundreds of NFTs for the game, including racing cart NFTs with a price tag of over TWO THOUSAND US DOLLARs. Trying to give that monkey picture a race, I guess. Because it's a kart racing NFT game. That was my little joke for this review. Anyway, this is NFT cancer. Taking this NFT scam as if it was a real game (it's not), it fails. This looks a lot like it was designed for consoles, but released on Steam instead by mistake. While this is on PC, it has all the hallmarks and deficiencies of a console game, from the clunkier than needed control scheme to the less than cutting edge graphics. There's 10's of thousands of PC games on Steam, and PC gamers deserve only the best. This might not appeal to many gamers due to the lack of PC-centric design. It's unclear why this never made it to the video game console appliances it seems to have been designed for. The graphics in this game are passable, but could be better. 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. On the important matter of pricing and value for gamers, there's a lot going on here with monetisation, so this really shouldn't be considered a truly free product because of that. There's no initial download price, but the developer was charging $20 USD for this. Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It seems like a nice gesture for the game to have no up-front cost anymore, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product. This is also a bit of a slap in the face to anyone who showed enough questionable judgement to pay money for this... nobody got refunded. It doesn't stop there, this game is also 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. Despite being a "free" game, this couldn't break triple figures, according to the player counts we can see on SteamDB, it's just in the double digits, and now it's not even getting those kinds of numbers. There's over 130 million gamers on Steam... this failed to appeal to almost all of them, most likely because of some or all of the reasons I supply in this review. All other issues aside (any of which would disqualify this from being worth your time), this is a game that relies on other players for it to be viable, and because there's not enough players, it's not viable. I can't recommend anyone downloads this, it's basically dead. But I think the fact this is NFT blockchain cancer should be enough to keep gamers far away from this. If Valve ever enforces their rule against NFT crapware on Steam, this will be removed.