Castle Champion

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"Castle Champion" is certainly a contender for one of the worst games ever made, and if it didn't come out in 2021 I would have said the whole thing was vibe coded. Maybe this was put on Steam as a joke? What do you do in the game? It's an incredibly 2D top down shooter with a "boss fight" theme and some of the most horrifically bad graphics ever to assault the gaming industry. This feels more like a tech demo or a project smacked together hurriedly to try make a kind of minimum viable product just good enough to pass the developers unambitious idea and shove it into Steam Direct to see if you can actually pay $100 and publish junk through Steam Direct. Yeah, you can. Is this good for gamers? Nope. The graphics here are particularly awful, inconsistently sized pixelcrap/MS-Paint sprites, so bad that it actually stands out as one of the worst looking games on Steam. Quite an accomplishment. 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. The developer chose not to do the job of a real game d…