箱庭小駅伝2 (2024)

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"箱庭小駅伝2" (Miniature Garden Relay Race 2) is a sports management game where you manage high school and college track events in Japan. The challenge to the game is getting over just how bad the implementation is... the game runs in a Window like it was written with Windows Forms or something, has a couple of primitive low poly assets but mostly it's just a spreadsheet. Now I know that's a big deal for Fantasy Football stuff, but this is way too niche and way too badly implemented to be appealing to anyone. What do you do in the game? Just watch your spreadsheets, click around on a few cells and menus to organise atheletes... it's dry and it's bad. There's no English translation for the game, but that's okay. The language of bad games is universal. The game is really simple and unambitious in terms of implementation, more of a tech demo or one of those cases where an amateur developer spends $100 to publish something on Steam Direct to see if it's possible. Yes, obviously it's possible. A proof of concept, tech demo, or something that's less than a little blip on the radar isn't offering anything truly valuable to gamers. The graphics aren't great, Mostly just text and some …

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