Runeflame

"Runeflame" is a weird attempt to kitbash together some kind of single player action RPG without having any clue as to how to accomplish it. However, that didn't stop them rushing this unfinished garbage into Steam Direct. What do you do in the game? Run around, shoot stuff with the laugably bad archery combat, solve "puzzles"... it kind of looks like they intended to make a game here but what you really get is a clunky, incoherent mess. The developers abandoned this 9 months ago. It will never be completed. This unfinished game is just polluting Steam and making it harder for gamers to find genuinely, completely made games. I'm not sure if this is an asset flip, but it's one of those cases where the assets just look much better than the rest of the quality of the game... a glaring inconsistency. There's no evidence, but as always, the biggest problem with asset flips besides the plagiarism is the deplorably low quality of the other aspects of the game, and even if the game assets are genuinely created for the game, the quality of the rest of the game is indistinguishable from that of asset flips. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. Despite being unable to finish the game, they had all the time in the world to add PAID DLC to an Early Access game! This is utterly unacceptable. You're expected to pay up $1 USD to unlock content through DLC purchases. The game should not be considered completely unlocked until you empty your wallet for the developer. This is misleading and predatory pricing on a product falsely marketed as "free". Even after that, if they ever did finish the game, they intended to slap a price tag on it. Appalling. In terms of public reception, this failed. There's over 130 million unique gamers visiting Steam every month. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 3 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Since free games don't contribute to your game collector badge and other profile stuff, is this a worthwhile addition to your Steam library? Definitely not. This isn't worth it. I'm paraphrasing another reviewer here, but this should be a paid product... they'd have to pay people to download it.

☀️

Still buggy + Archery Mechanics seems more random luck than working mechanic. I ended up getting stuck in the starter area after some weird bugs. I successfully managed to shoot and hit the bullseye in the well enough that the red sparklies disappeared. While running around trying to figure out what puzzle I hadn't completed as I was missing one gold plate, I twice got stuck running against rocks/objects and had to save out and reload to get unstuck. Following this, I realized that I hadn't hit the target behind the moving panel like I thought I had. I managed to finally hit it by pure luck more than anything else as its really impossible to time it, and still didn't get anything. Running around a bunch more, I found sparklies back at the target inside the well. After twenty minutes, I realized I was successfully hitting it, but it wasn't triggering anything to happen. I saved out and spent another 5-10 minutes working to hit it, managed to land multiple arrows on it again and still nothing. I'm not sure if I was doing things in the wrong order and that bugged things, or if the game simply bugged out, but without being able to hit that final target, I can't get the last plate, which I believe would finish the starting area for me. I love the idea of puzzles solved by archery and think the developers have a neat idea. Bugs in early access are not unexpected, but the key archery mechanic didn't feel fleshed out enough for me to really have fun with it and recommend it

Yes.

Um its a game. I lasted 16 mins. Its free and should be. If the screenshots interests you I say try it out. It wont cost ya nothing. Personally not my type of game.

Игра Runeflame – это приятный сюрприз в жанре рогалика. Пиксельная графика выполнена с любовью и создает уютную, хоть и опасную, атмосферу. Боевая система простая, но увлекательная, основанная на подборе комбинаций рун для создания различных заклинаний. Каждый забег ощущается уникальным благодаря процедурной генерации уровней и большому количеству модификаторов. Персонажи обладают разными способностями, что добавляет разнообразия в геймплей. Сложность достаточно высокая, и часто приходится умирать, чтобы понять, какие комбинации рун наиболее эффективны, но это лишь подогревает интерес. Разнообразие врагов добавляет тактической глубины. Несмотря на визуальную простоту, игра обладает хорошей реиграбельностью, и всегда хочется попробовать новые билды. Отличный пример того, как можно создать захватывающую игру с ограниченным бюджетом. Рекомендую всем любителям жанра рогалик.