Low quality games on Steam just found a new low

[Old Man Gamer (OMG)]

I have been periodically posting about how humorous some of the poor quality games that get published on Steam seem to continue to flood the Steam store. I am surprised to see that the low quality of these spam products have found a way to drop further in quality.

I have been going through the new releases for years now, always on the lookout for something intriguing, and this has progressed to reaching over 100k titles ignored. I cannot help but laugh at the fact that someone had to think these products up in their mind, create these said products, and then put them up on the market with an actual price tag.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3468933991

I am wondering, can and how will the bar be lowered from here. We are way beyond asset flips, mobile game dumps, and duplicate low quality games under different names being released (sometimes simultaneously).

Here is to another year of new release discoveries.

[Kenpoleon Bonaparte]

Have you seen these two yet?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2696480/Nothing/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1534200/Nothing/

[Old Man Gamer (OMG)]

Originally posted by Kenpoleon Bonaparte:

Have you seen these two yet?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2696480/Nothing/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1534200/Nothing/

Lol! I have not seen those yet. Absolutely hilarious.

[Kenpoleon Bonaparte]

Originally posted by Old Man Gamer (OMG):

I have been going through the new releases for years now, always on the lookout for something intriguing, and this has progressed to reaching over 100k titles ignored.

Over 100k items ignored. That's awesome. I've got over 55k ignored. I call it "playing the Steam Ignore Game".

[Ben Lubar]

I have 4 games marked as ignore because I don't spend my time seeking out things I don't want to look at.

[Old Man Gamer (OMG)]

Originally posted by Ben Lubar:

I have 4 games marked as ignore because I don't spend my time seeking out things I don't want to look at.

Have you never used the discovery queue?

I take a peek at all upcoming releases and new releases, as I find some fantastic games that way, which do not make it on the front page of the Steam store. I have even made some friends that way, getting to converse with the developers of some of these games.

[Kenpoleon Bonaparte]

Originally posted by Ben Lubar:

I have 4 games marked as ignore because I don't spend my time seeking out things I don't want to look at.

It's not that I'm seeking out games to ignore. It's just that when I'm shopping, I automatically ignore any game I'm not interested in, therefore I won't have to look at it again the next time I'm shopping.

[Old Man Gamer (OMG)]

Originally posted by Kenpoleon Bonaparte:

Originally posted by Old Man Gamer (OMG):

I have been going through the new releases for years now, always on the lookout for something intriguing, and this has progressed to reaching over 100k titles ignored.

Over 100k items ignored. That's awesome. I've got over 55k ignored. I call it "playing the Steam Ignore Game".

Lol, Indeed. One that is for a good laugh and a raised glass to how simple gaming once was.

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by Kenpoleon Bonaparte:

Have you seen these two yet?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2696480/Nothing/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1534200/Nothing/

Wishlisted.

Originally posted by Old Man Gamer (OMG):

I have been periodically posting about how humorous some of the poor quality games that get published on Steam seem to continue to flood the Steam store. I am surprised to see that the low quality of these spam products have found a way to drop further in quality.

I have been going through the new releases for years now, always on the lookout for something intriguing, and this has progressed to reaching over 100k titles ignored. I cannot help but laugh at the fact that someone had to think these products up in their mind, create these said products, and then put them up on the market with an actual price tag.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3468933991

I am wondering, can and how will the bar be lowered from here. We are way beyond asset flips, mobile game dumps, and duplicate low quality games under different names being released (sometimes simultaneously).

Here is to another year of new release discoveries.

I must not be using Steam like others do. I rarely spend time on the Store actively searching for games to play. If I do, I'm looking for those games that have similarities to ones that I or my friends own. I'm never sitting at my PC wondering what games are out there to play.

So, of course, if you're evaluating every possible piece of merchandise in any store, most of what you find is going to be junk. If you walked every aisle at say Walmart or Target using the same browsing pattern you're using on Steam, I doubt you'll find anything interesting or worth your money. Amazon is jammed packed with cheap Chinese made products but you can still find the brands and items you want as long as you're not running wide open searches.

Maybe Steam could use some pruning, so to speak, but I like the fact that anyone hoping to create, publish, and sell a game of theirs can get it listed on the largest PC video game storefront relatively easily. Sure, that's also going to generate a lot of low-effort releases, people gaming the system, whatever, but a well informed consumer like yourself should be able to easily navigate through them all, much like you would at a Walmart, and find the diamonds in the rough.

[DarkCrystalMethod]

Nothing really impresses me(pardon the pun).

But this developer thought of Everything!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/582270/Everything/

[Kenpoleon Bonaparte]

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

I doubt you'll find anything interesting or worth your money. Amazon is jammed packed with cheap Chinese made products but you can still find the brands and items you want as long as you're not running wide open searches.

Right. For something like Amazon, my search is more narrowly tailored because I usually know what i want.

But for Steam, I guess I use what you call a "wide open" search. In the old days, when you went to the store and picked up a game box, you had to make a $20 decision just based on that box whether you thought you'd like that game or not. So I was very picky, as many stores would not refund an opened game. If you bought it, you were stuck with it.

But one of the benefits of Steam is, as you said, that anybody can put a game up here. I have found many indie dev games that I've liked. I see something that even looks possibly interesting, and it's only a couple of dollars, I'll take a chance and buy it. And I've been rewarded for doing so by finding many diamonds in the rough with wide open searches. The types/genres of games I will play now is 10 times more than what I used to play when I had to go to the store and look at a box.

[BJWyler]

Originally posted by Kenpoleon Bonaparte:

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

I doubt you'll find anything interesting or worth your money. Amazon is jammed packed with cheap Chinese made products but you can still find the brands and items you want as long as you're not running wide open searches.

Right. For something like Amazon, my search is more narrowly tailored because I usually know what i want.

But for Steam, I guess I use what you call a "wide open" search. In the old days, when you went to the store and picked up a game box, you had to make a $20 decision just based on that box whether you thought you'd like that game or not. So I was very picky, as many stores would not refund an opened game. If you bought it, you were stuck with it.

But one of the benefits of Steam is, as you said, that anybody can put a game up here. I have found many indie dev games that I've liked. I see something that even looks possibly interesting, and it's only a couple of dollars, I'll take a chance and buy it. And I've been rewarded for doing so by finding many diamonds in the rough with wide open searches. The types/genres of games I will play now is 10 times more than what I used to play when I had to go to the store and look at a box.

And how much junk does a picker have to go through before he finally finds that rusty gem?

It's amazing how people will complain about the junk (like somehow it didn't exist in the "good ole days"), but at least people are out there trying. You don't make a prize winning cake on your first attempt.

Those gems you found are the direct result of someone's previous junk attempts. I have zero games ignored because all that junk makes me appreciate the gems even more.

[Old Man Gamer (OMG)]

Originally posted by BJWyler:

Originally posted by Kenpoleon Bonaparte:

Right. For something like Amazon, my search is more narrowly tailored because I usually know what i want.

But for Steam, I guess I use what you call a "wide open" search. In the old days, when you went to the store and picked up a game box, you had to make a $20 decision just based on that box whether you thought you'd like that game or not. So I was very picky, as many stores would not refund an opened game. If you bought it, you were stuck with it.

But one of the benefits of Steam is, as you said, that anybody can put a game up here. I have found many indie dev games that I've liked. I see something that even looks possibly interesting, and it's only a couple of dollars, I'll take a chance and buy it. And I've been rewarded for doing so by finding many diamonds in the rough with wide open searches. The types/genres of games I will play now is 10 times more than what I used to play when I had to go to the store and look at a box.

And how much junk does a picker have to go through before he finally finds that rusty gem?

It's amazing how people will complain about the junk (like somehow it didn't exist in the "good ole days"), but at least people are out there trying. You don't make a prize winning cake on your first attempt.

Those gems you found are the direct result of someone's previous junk attempts. I have zero games ignored because all that junk makes me appreciate the gems even more.

That is a pessimistic way to approach this. A 'rusty gem' is showing you are biased in a negative view of looking at games that you do not know already, allowing others to make the decision for you. I prefer to think for myself to decide what I like, than gaming journals. Unless, you are relying on friends who do this practice that you look down on, to find something that is not well advertised.

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

I must not be using Steam like others do.

I've been saying the same thing for years now. I just cannot understand how people run into all these "low-quality" games.

I have no games ignored, don't see the point.

Originally posted by Old Man Gamer (OMG):

I prefer to think for myself to decide what I like

So do the other people in this thread.

[BJWyler]

Originally posted by Old Man Gamer (OMG):

Originally posted by BJWyler:

And how much junk does a picker have to go through before he finally finds that rusty gem?

It's amazing how people will complain about the junk (like somehow it didn't exist in the "good ole days"), but at least people are out there trying. You don't make a prize winning cake on your first attempt.

Those gems you found are the direct result of someone's previous junk attempts. I have zero games ignored because all that junk makes me appreciate the gems even more.

That is a pessimistic way to approach this. A 'rusty gem' is showing you are biased in a negative view of looking at games that you do not know already, allowing others to make the decision for you. I prefer to think for myself to decide what I like, than gaming journals. Unless, you are relying on friends who do this practice that you look down on, to find something that is not well advertised.

Nothing pessimistic about it. It how life actually works, bub. And methinks someone doesn't really know what a rusty gem is. You should put picking down on your bucket list. You won't regret it. And I don't rely on anyone else to choose my games for me, hence why 0 games are blocked, and none will ever be blocked.

[VahidSlayerOfAll]

here steam users we will let you block game devs so you never have to see any games they make. you can only block 100..... i maxed that out on day 1