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For Mighty #9:
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198013723081/recommended/314710/
For Wrestlequest (negative due to game breaking bugs):
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198013723081/recommended/1867510/
and for a indie game called Athenian Rhapsody which was fun to play:
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198013723081/recommended/1671720/
Not everyone is a paid person for the game or a mouthpiece for them. I have written reviews for now like 7 years on steam, and do not use one line or meme reviews. I also reviewed DLC's too. I do get free games sometimes from developers, but i tell them i tend to play the game after several years to see how it works when it is fully patched and removed bugs. There are exceptions to this rule though sometimes.
I do trust steam reviews. For example, if the game is super negative, i still might buy it to review it for myself. I have done this before, but i do study reviews before i buy a game and see if any report major bugs. I still might buy the game. For example, i see Forsaken has negative reviews, but i still want to get it someday. Many ubisoft games also have this, but i play them myself to see how they are. So yes and no, reviews can sway me, but alot of times i still buy the game just to see how it is.
Yes I have opted to not buy a game because of the negative aggregate because experience hjas taught me that one does not get a negative aggregate without doing something to deserve it and typically a visit to read a couple of the reviews and the forum is more than enough to confirm.
Does it help or hurt indie developers.
I think it does.
1. Good games get attention and a good aggregate is a verystrong sales driver.
2. It encourages devs to not only make decent games but to also be very thoughtful about their audience. They have to pick their niche.
3. It encouirages them to market to that niche.
It also can improve indie games too. Say the game has not many players, but then some person posts a constructive criticism in their review. The indie developer may take that into account and change their game to fix major bugs or something else in it.
For example, one indie game i used to play long ago, which i forgot the name, something the moon chronicles or something like that, was a rpg maker game. I wrote a honest criticism about how to buy items in the game is so slow as buying 1 item at a time is super tedious. The developer contacted me and talked to me about it, and my opinion on how they can improve it. I said the buying system should allow you to purchase 20 at a time at once. So they changed the buying system in the game for the better, which improved the game. It does not necessarily hurt the game, sometimes it also helps the game improve, even indie ones.
So Start_Running if you were playing a indie game where you could only buy 1 potion at a time when using a buying system in the game, would you want to wait around 30 minutes to buy 1 per 20 seconds, or buy in bulk so you can stock on healing potions and items?
ah found the game. It is this one specifically. You maybe able to look for my old posts with me talking to the indie developer on how slow the item system was in the game:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/412270/Stories_of_Bethem_Full_Moon/
I also did this with the game CITIZENS IN SPACE. Apparently i contacted them about fixing the game, but apparently the developers said that the it was in SEGA's hands though to fix some bugs in the game i reported to them. This game was eventually removed off steam.
For some reason i feel alot of people try not to contact developers of games, even though i mention it alot of times when people run into bugs in the game. They may fix it or not, but i think reviews do help developers figure out what bugs are sometimes if they do not have other social media sites that people post on.
No, they're overrun by meme & joke reviews, agenda-driven review-bombing, award farming, and so forth. Steam Reviews haven't meant anything in years.
No, because as I said, they're swamped with garbage.
Has nothing to do with indie games in particular, it's all of them. /shrug
Turns out the reviews were right.
I don't fully trust them but I find them useful to gather information and set expectations ahead.
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