Venusian Vengeance

Если у вас есть лишние 2000 нервных клеток, то милости прошу в эту игру Но условие меняется если вы будете проходить игру на все ачивки, вам понадобится 5043 нервных клеток

"The blood of Rasputin flows through my veins." -Ninja Master What more do I have to say?

Venusian Vengeance is a Flash game that's been dumped on Steam for unknown reasons. It's a 2D retro pixel top down arcade twin stick shooter with a painfully generic "shoot aliens" theme and painfully generic gameplay. At least Adobe Flash/Air are capable of some smooth frame rates, but that's all this has going for it. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old 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. 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 implementation here is of such poor quality, the developer couldn't work out how to make the game display in fullscreen, it only runs in a window. 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. Comically, the game was written in Adobe Flash/AIR (I'm not making this up). Talk about not using the right tools for the job. Might as well try to bake a cake with a screwdriver. The extremely poor choice of game engine here is a major contributing factor to the defects with the game. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. Venusian Vengeance didn't appeal much to the people who own a copy of the game, either. It has achievements, and they show us a very clear picture that the game didn't really capture any interest from gamers. The most commonly and easily attained achievement is defeating the first miniboss, you can do that within a few minutes of starting the game, but only around 22 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling the game. Hardly a success story, gamers just weren't all that interested in the game. Reviewing SteamDB to check how popular this game was with players reveals a surprise... there's an unusual, small spike in player counts for the game (30 concurrent players). But this only appeared around the same time that trading cards were applied to the game... so this is just card idlers getting their cards and moving on. A closer look at the numbers shows the game just has a couple of players every week running up the game and idling it for cards, then deleting it. We must ask how it benefits gamers for there to be so many games like this, with no merit as a serious game, that only generate sales from people idling and selling the trading cards. Venusian Vengeance has the almost comically optimistic (if it wasn't so sad) price of around $4 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam. Yeah, $4 USD for a Flash game. Amateur "indie" developers seem to think Steam is some kind of joke or something.