DuST: undefined

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What an interesting little game this turned out to be. It’s definitely a bit strange and different, but honestly that’s part of what made it fun for me.

"DuST: undefined" is best described as Super Hexagon with pattern matching. It's a minimalist wave survival arcade game, but where it differs from Super Hexagon is slightly worse, even lazier graphics, and a gameplay element where you match triangles, squares and circles to various incoming circles that feature the same primitive polygons. It's coupled with ear-bleedingly bad music as the developer tries to use Steam to compete with a hypothetical version of Spotify that only has garbage music in it. So this looks like an old 1990's Adobe Flash game that you might play in a web browser, and the problem there is obviously Steam wasn't intended to try compete with Chrome and Firefox. If it can be done in a web browser, it's not even close to a cutting edge PC gaming experience. That's a problem. This game features very lacklustre minimalist "art" for graphics instead of anything remotely contemporary. I'm sure the "developer" thought this would come across as "artistic", but it doesn't, it comes across as "really lazy". Yes, contemporary 3D graphics take a lot of time and effort to create. That doesn't mean it's okay not to bother! Developers must try to understand that ga…

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nice game. interesting game mechanic. likely enhances cognitive function