Gpi

Thousands of retro 2D platformers are infesting Steam, and "Gpi" is just more pollution in a crowded market of terrible games. There are over 17,000 platformers on Steam, literally thousands (you can go see for yourself if you search for the platformer tag on the store, I'm not kidding). And this is far from being one of the best of those. This is a pointless and laughably bad platformer-lite, a one button platformer where you jump based on the direction of an arror that shifts ever couple of seconds to a different direction. Get your timing right and tap that button and you too will discover there is no mercy, it doesn't end after the first level, please make it stop. Platforming is an old, mostly dead genre, and this lacklustre experience, while it doesn't have an upfront cost, isn't saving the genre... it's no surprise this failed to capture any attention from gamers in the era of immersive 3D gaming. This comes across as something unambitious and "simple" in terms of implementation and technical quality and depth, more like a game dev tutorial or an experiment. It's a classic case of a developer prioritizing the low effort needed to get a game listed on Steam over the ac…