SUPER CIRCUIT BREAKERS

You walk around a small area that sometimes has obstacles that look like a floor. Enemies come from doors and you shoot them. There are a couple of basic power ups but that's about it. It's nice that it's free, but Nation Red is only €2 and infinitely superior.

Super Circuit Breakers is a 2D retro pixel multiplayer top down shooter (sigh) that's been slapped together with the godawful GameMaker Studio video game construction kit from Yoyogames. It's a fairly basic top down shooter, with a fairly strong "bullet hell" vibe. There's a variety of "characters" which factors into the monetisation for the game. They chose to use obsolete retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. Resolution is locked and can't be changed, so there's no way to even attempt to improve the poor quality, obsolete visuals. These flaws push this game far below minimum acceptable standards for PC. GameMaker Studio is a very poor quality game construction kit, and unsurprisingly results in products that have little to no value as games, especially when compared to the work of professional developers who create genuine products for gamers. Using a video game construction kit requires little to no talent or skill as a game developer. Very often, GameMaker Studio is used to make shovelware and lazy cash grabs. The game isn't even free, exactly, as it's incomplete and players are expected to pay a whopping $14 USD for DLC to unlock additional characters, so I guess they saw the popular FPS hero shooter games and decided they could achieve the same success but without having to bother with complicated, difficult, and bare minimum standard 3D graphics. The game attracts only 2-3 players per day at most, and given there's a strong multiplayer focus, that makes the game dead and of little interest to gamers seeking a multiplayer experience. We can only wonder if the steep DLC pricing, or the inability for the developers to manage 3D graphics, the old dead game format, or the lazy pixel "art" was what scared gamers away.