Warning: In-Game Cash Shop[en.wikipedia.org]

This game is infested with a toxic mobile app style cash shop. You will be prompted to and expected to give money/credit card details to the developers through this cash shop to buy in-game goods so you can play the game.

"Sneak Out" is a toxic cash shop/in-game cash currency infested P2W trashheap from the very shady eastern bloc "Kinguin" publisher (headquartered in Chinese Hong Kong to help shuffle money around). But let's focus less on the shady devs, fake reviews, and more on the pure toxicity of what looks like a pleasant, family friendly "party game"... it's not. It's a cash harvesting operation. Avoid this like the plague.

What's the game supposed to be about? The skin of the game that they wrapped around the cash shop and microtransaction financial backend is a dead multiplayer hide-and-seek game set in a haunted castle. One player is randomly assigned as the hunter, while the others are hiders who must complete tasks to escape. Of course, there are no players. Hiders evade the hunter using stealth and various items or pranks. The hunter uses unique character abilities to catch the hiders. Caught players return as ghosts to help remaining hiders by hindering the hunter. The gameplay loop involves these basic roles.

The graphics aren't great... this was designed for Nintendo Switch after all. That's understandably a turn off for a lot of gamers, and it's a big contributor to the failure of the game to attract gamers despite having no up-front cost. Gaming is a primarily visual medium, and if developers want to succeed, they must understand that it's not an area for compromise. You deserve better than compromises.

You're forced to sign a highly questionable yet legally unenforceable End User License Agreement... for such a relatively low effort, low quality product, this comes across more as a delusion of grandeur than anything else. This agreement includes questionable requirements that may attempt to revoke consumer law protections that gamers expect to have, which is also highly problematic. Developers must learn they are here to serve gamers, not control them. I had my cat walk over the keyboard while the EULA was displaying, which fixed that problem for me.

As mentioned, this isn't really free as the game is infested with mobile app store like microtransactions. This is a consumer hostile model that we don't need to see on PC. It's deceptively priced to gouge gamers, and that's a reason in itself to avoid this.

Even after that, the developer has their hand out for $197 USD worth of DLC for this as you're expected to buy some extra DLC packages to buy even more of the digital currency. Yes, ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY SEVEN UNITED STATES DOLLARS. There's ZERO reason any game at all should cost that much, let alone a Nintendo Switch game that might as well be a mobile app. See what's going on here? Nothing about this is ok.

This is deliberately deceptive pricing when a single up front free would be more honest. The game should not be considered free due to this shady pricing structure.

It's important to note that, despite this being such a low quality product, there's a number of positive reviews that all appeared immediately after the game launched, from suspiciously inactive Steam accounts that have reviewed almost no other games apart from this. Take the review score of this game with a grain of salt.

Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it?

Nope. This isn't worth downloading. While this didn't cost me any money up front, I still feel ripped off.

Графика хорошая и задумка , но сервера и онлайн желают лучшего.....

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