The developer thinks he is some innovative genius

[thepowerlies]

The game makes no sense (trying so hard to be unique and controversial ). Even when you go in depth You can't tell from which game some of those reviews are. It seems like he just gathered a bunch of random reviews from a bunch of games through steam API without even reading them just to make up an asset flip game

[dislekcia!]

Impostor syndrome says nope.

I mean, I hear you on it making no sense, sure. Reviews can be difficult to pin down to any specific game, but I'd argue that's down the the review writers themselves. Plus not knowing and having to guess sometimes is part of the fun - we do try to remove obvious game names from reviews as much as possible, it shouldn't be TOO easy.

Also: How did you get the game?

[thepowerlies]

Originally posted by dislekcia!:

Impostor syndrome says nope.

I mean, I hear you on it making no sense, sure. Reviews can be difficult to pin down to any specific game, but I'd argue that's down the the review writers themselves. Plus not knowing and having to guess sometimes is part of the fun - we do try to remove obvious game names from reviews as much as possible, it shouldn't be TOO easy.

Also: How did you get the game?

Making it difficult to guess is fun. For example like some of difficult decisions in witcher and skyrim. Some are difficult to get the result you want from them but not impossible. Your case is like saying choose the correct number from 1 to 10 without any clue. One way to achieve that in your game is to read and find the reviews that give some sort of hint that the player can somehow guess or deduce the game from but it requires going trough a huge amount of comments and reading them rather than just fetching them from an API and bundle them together with code.

got this from steamdb

[dislekcia!]

The reviews being completely randomly chosen from the massive gamut of available reviews on Steam is very much the point though... I understand what you're saying, but reading absolute nonsense reviews, 100+ hour negative rant fests and countless versions of "Good game" is exactly what it feels like to browse a game's reviews.

Smashing them all apart is pretty cathartic though, NGL. Have you found any reviews that made you click through to the game itself?

Thanks for the steamdb tip - I'll report that to Valve, think we found a Steam bug :)

[thepowerlies]

Originally posted by dislekcia!:

The reviews being completely randomly chosen from the massive gamut of available reviews on Steam is very much the point though... I understand what you're saying, but reading absolute nonsense reviews, 100+ hour negative rant fests and countless versions of "Good game" is exactly what it feels like to browse a game's reviews.

Smashing them all apart is pretty cathartic though, NGL. Have you found any reviews that made you click through to the game itself?

Thanks for the steamdb tip - I'll report that to Valve, think we found a Steam bug :)

I would go through a bunch of reviews if it helps me not to waste a couple of dollars on a trash or spend some on a good game. Especially those who expose false advertisement, buggy crappy games, shady business strats (like paladins rising the prices after you buy your first champion) and ...

[dislekcia!]

I meant through Review Breaker ;)

Did a review come up that made you want to click on the sidebar and see the other reviews for that game on Steam?