Ragdoll Madness is a very poorly made/abandoned Early Access "ragdoll physics" third person 3D platformer/puzzle game. You must both combat the deliberately bad physics of the game as well as solve various platforming/puzzle tasks on the small handful of levels in the game. There's also a solid focus on mods, possibly in the hopes the community will do the game development so the developer doesn't have to. Certainly, this is a game of shortcuts, with asset packs from Synty as well as the [url=https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/vegetation/low-poly-vegetation-pack-80146]Low Poly Vegetation Pack[/url] from the real developer, LMHPOLY. Of course, the developer did not properly credit the real developers here.
In line with taking shortcuts and not wanting to actually develop the game, it was abandoned roughly 4 months after launch and hasn't been updated in a year and a half. It blew past the developers 2 month commitment to complete the game without any notification or admission of failure from the developer.
From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.
There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics.
The game features lazy low-polygon "retro" assets, making this look like a barely functional 3D game from the 1990s. It's unclear why the developers weren't able to arrange high quality, high polygon count contemporary assets for the game, and also irrelevant... what matters is that this looks bad as a result of their decisions, a compromise PC gamers shouldn't have to put up with.
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.
The controls and game handling are notably very clunky and unsmooth here. While we might expect some awkwardness about the controls because it's a ragdoll physics game, this is much worse than just funny physics. It's not fun to play as games like Stumble Guys are, it's janky and unsatisfying... and any experienced gamer will tell you, the handling, responsiveness and general gameplay feel of the control scheme must be well polished for this kind of game to succeed. Unfortunately, this is something the developer seems to have phoned in, with little to no apparent gameplay testing. They dropped the ball on this one.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
Unethically, the developer sold keys to this abandoned Early Access game into cheap, nasty game bundles, where they knew it would be advertised and sold as a complete game. This seems to have been done in an attempt to mislead gamers into buying a knowingly faulty, defective and incomplete product. When a developer does this for a game they have zero practical intention of completing, this is essentially a scam, an intention to get paid for a broken/unfinished product. Often this is done as an exit strategy, as the developer takes the money and runs. No refunds have been given, the developer kept all the money they took from gamers.
Furthering the unethical nature of this developer, while they are selling this incomplete game under Valve's failed Early Access program, they're abusing that program, and not working on this game full time, as they have other projects in the works. That means there's ZERO confidence anyone who buys this in Early Access will receive a complete game, and it's possible that they're being scammed.
The game contains stock/store assets and other packages, but the "developer" here hasn't credited the people who actually did the work for the game. While this isn't necessarily against the license for the use of those assets, claiming the work of others as your own is highly unethical. Gamers should be made aware when a developer behaves unethically, as buying games from unethical developers puts the gamers money at risk.
Ragdoll Madness has the almost scam-like price of around $5 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the unethical nature of the developer. Remember that if you buy a game from an unethical developer, you're putting your money at risk.
