[quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_flip]Warning: Asset Flip![/url][/quote]
Queen of Honor is an asset flip, what Valve calls a "fake game". The "developer", Big Black Bear/NL Studio, took the basic Construct 2 Platformer Template, slapped a couple of asset flipped sprites on it, and dumped the results onto Steam as a cash grab scam.
Big Black Bear/NL Studio has shown a repeated pattern of ripping off GameMakerStudio/Unity/Construct 2 templates and dumping them on Steam.
Don't believe me? Here's some other asset flips from exactly the same Construct 2 template, all shamelessly dumped on Steam as nasty cash grabs:
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[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1691170]Virus ON[/url]", copy + pasted from the same template by NL Studio
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/715980]Eared Hero[/url]", copy + pasted from the same template by Vyacheslav Shilikhin
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/709780]Crazy Scientist[/url]", copy + pasted from the same template by Vyacheslav Shilikhin
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/720470]Caveman Alive[/url]", copy + pasted from the same template by Vyacheslav Shilikhin
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/860440]Goat Life[/url]", copy + pasted from the same template by Vyacheslav Shilikhin
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/754040]Piggy Poggy Pog[/url]", copy + pasted from the same template by TSS Studio
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/699550]Forest Guardian[/url]", copy + pasted from the same template by OnBlind
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/739990]Lucky Panda[/url]", copy + pasted from the same template by OnBlind
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1879620]1000 Needles[/url]", copy + pasted from the same template by LTZInc
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/778590]Mountain Troll[/url]", copy + pasted from the same template by IndieLip
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/782300]Unstoppable Hamster[/url]", copy + pasted from the same template by IndieLip
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Look for yourself... these are all exactly the same game!
NL Studio/Big Black Bear have a known history of trying to scam people into paying them money for someone else's work.One example of NL Studio/Big Black Bear doing this is [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/817150]Factory Pirates[/url], which is really the "[url=https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/historic/polygon-pirates-low-poly-3d-art-by-synty-92579]Polygon Pirates Low Poly 3D asset pack[/url]" asset, written by the actual developers, Synty Games.
The products that result from asset flips aren't "real" games. They lack depth and content, because they're just simplistic copies of demos or tutorials. In this case, "Queen of Honor" is just a very old, very basic Construct 2 template for a simple, badly made platformer that's been reskinned lazily, and doesn't have any merit as a proper, fully fledged PC game, so a copy+paste of it can't be recommended.
Asset flips don't involve any professional game development. Sure, sometimes they may change a few cosmetic things, swap out different assets etc, but at heart it's functionally identical to the asset they're ripping off. Asset flips are an insult to both PC gamers and to professional game developers who create genuine, high quality PC games. Asset flips like this are harmful to the gaming industry and to Steam because they reduce the visibility that sincerely made indie games should have. They make it harder for gamers to find genuine games made by honest developers.
To cement the position of this asset flip as nothing but a cash grab, it was dumped onto cheap DailyIndieGame shovelware bundles on launch day. Don't reward this morally bankrupt, unethical behaviour from Big Black Bear/NL Studio.
[quote][url=https://mmofallout.com/valve-bans-titles-for-review-manipulation/]Warning: Review Manipulation![/url][/quote]
This game features a number of fake positive reviews from accounts known to be in the business of review manipulation/paid reviews. They're all written in either Russian or broken English, appear almost immediately after the game launched on Steam, all have a direct Steam purchase of the game, and the accounts are used consistently to write fake reviews for asset flips and other cash grabs/scams. The "Positive" review score on this game should be disregarded due to this review manipulation.
