December 24th

I truly wanted to do my part and join the child soldiers Russian army but the game was so loud it made me deaf and I got honorably discharged

"December 24th" is also known as "Christmas Eve" by hardcore fans... ahh, I'm just kidding, nobody is a fan of this shovelware. It's yet another "me too" PVP FPS arena shooter with, you guessed it, no players, it's dead as a doornail. Understandably, because the quality here is really, really low. This has some really mediocre looking graphics that will understandably be 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 primarly visual medium, and if developers want to succeed, they must understand that it's not an area for compromise. You deserve better than compromises. This is "free" enough, at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 7 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your libr…

When I noticed that I had one of Les Kalifas' games in my library and that it had a news feed post saying goodbye, that they were giving up on the game (or game development as a whole - I cannot recall precisely), I made a mental note to try their games out once my schedule had cleared. I've finally begun to tackle the games on my list (it's not so much a backlog as it is games I've dabbled in but never really sat down purposefully to play) and I noticed while looking on Steam DB that this game existed. Seeing it was for free, I knew I had to try it out. This game is a broken, barely translated, janky, mess. And I like it anyway. Why? Because despite it being dead, there is something here that resonates with me. The stylish intro - complete with use of World War One German footage which gets a thumbs up from me solely because Germany in WW1 is often neglected in media references compared to its way too overused successor - is really well done, and makes me feel like this game had some love behind it - it's not a generic asset flip that low hanging fruit pickers like BigFryTV and SidAlpha made "careers" out of pretending were an issue that required everyone's attention - no, this i…

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Is that how you become russian? Truly this is the best experience I have been blessed with having. 10/10