いのちのないうた (2023)

"いのちのないうた" is a badly made selection of minimalist/Adobe Flash tier minigames trying desperately to be more art than game. This is quite bad at being art and even worse than being a game. There's no English translation for the game, but that's okay. The language of bad games is universal. The graphics aren't great, mostly 2D barely animated/Flash like images. That's understandably 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 primarily visual medium, and if developers want to succeed, they must understand that it's not an area for compromise. You deserve better than compromises. On the matter of pricing and value for gamers, most "free" games on Steam aren't really free. There's often nasty mobile app cash shops, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of shady pricing schemes that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, …