Satan Santa

Very short and simple christmasy horor game, we're talking 20 minutes, where you mainly do fetch quests and sometimes shoot. It's on par with many free games in this genre, many of which are better, therefore, this one doesn't deserve a positive review for how barebones and not particularly thrilling it is.

[i][b]Простой сюжет про злого санту, все что мы делаем это ходим, а потом стреляем все победа.[/b][/i]

[quote][b][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_flip]Warning: Asset Flip![/url][/b] Satan Santa is a Digital Homicide style asset flip, or what Valve calls a "Fake Game". The "developer" paid for/pirated a few Unity asset store assets, dumped them all in a blender, and submitted it to Valve as if they're real game developers.[/quote] In this case, the asset flipper took a bunch of creative commons assets and slapped his own name on them (although they are credited). The result is one of literally hundreds, if not thousands of asset flipped Unity first person horror adventures. There's a badly done "bad Santa" theme making this a lame ripoff of Santa's Slay and other bad films and games... even the concept for this was stolen from someone else. Creative and moral bankruptcy. However, stealing other people's game assets isn't enough for Nannings, setting out to insult and offend gamers and real creators everywhere, there's disgusting AI slop for the marketing material. The use of AI slop tells us everything we need to know about Nannings and their disgusting attitute towards gamers. No wonder this is such a garbage product. It has no value or merit as a real game. What should we say when we see shady developers trying to get YOUR money for someone else's game assets and AI slop? 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. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. The game assets are fairly mediocre/low quality, in some places they appear mismatched... Ultimately the quality of these assets, and thus the overall visual quality is lower than average, and low quality always makes for a less than optimal gaming experience. Remember, we're looking for the best of the best of 110,000+ games on Steam. 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, left handed gamers or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts. 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 2 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 110,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. This kind of asset flipping isn't harmless. It makes it harder for gamers to find genuinely made games from ethical developers. It makes it harder for genuine indie developers, who put hard work into trying to make real games, to find an audience for their products. It gives indie developers a bad name. So, should you buy this asset flip? Is this better than any of the 110,000+ genuinely made games on Steam? Of course not! Satan Santa is relatively cheap at $2 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, and the questionable ethical nature of the developer and/or their associates (as outlined above), this is impossible to recommend. Remember that if you buy a game from an unethical developer, you're putting your money at risk. [quote][b][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/profile]Profile Features Limited![/url][/b] Valve have marked this game as "Profile Features Limited" at the time of this review. This is usually caused by poor sales figures and low community acceptance for the game (to date). Until this status changes, this game will not give you +1 to your Game Collector badge count, appear in profile achievements or any other Steam meta-accomplishments, nor can it be displayed in some profile showcases. If these factors are important to you, it may be worth holding off before buying this game.[/quote]