ファントピア (2024)

⠀

"ファントピア" is a garbage Japanese e-book punctuated with a typing mini-game. You're presented with a sentence in Japanese and you have to type it out in Romaji. This certainly is some of the worst gameplay imaginable, but combining it with a godawfully cringey e-book is just downright mean and malicious. Needless to say, gamers on Steam aren't that masochistic so this was a dismal failure. There's no English translation for the game, but that's okay. The language of bad games is universal. The graphics aren't great. That's understandably be 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. 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. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 2 concurrent players... this is a dismal public …