

Magic Runes
Daniel Li · 2024 · Casual, Adventure, Action, Shooter, Exploration
PC
Positive90% · 10 📉 Recent reviews down 50%
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About Magic Runes
Magic Runes - An exciting 3D game with adventure elements. You have to go on a dangerous adventure across a mysterious island full of ancient dinosaurs. Your goal is to cleanse the lands of darkness and return peace and tranquility to these lands! Collect resources, build a camp, fight dangerous predators with the help of a magical staff and magic skills!
Features
- Nice soundtrack
- Colorful graphics.
- Dangerous opponents
Features
- Nice soundtrack
- Colorful graphics.
- Dangerous opponents
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players overwhelmingly criticize Magic Rune as a low-effort asset flip with minimal original development, poor graphics, clunky controls, and uninspired gameplay consisting mainly of button-mashing combat and tedious exploration. The game is also accused of lacking proper credits for its assets and being overpriced, with one reviewer noting it functions as a walking simulator that wastes players' time even when completed.
Magic Rune is an absolute disaster of a game, a black hole of enjoyment in the gaming universe. From the moment you start, you're thrust into a world of frustration and disappointment. Let's talk about the graphics. They're reminiscent of something you'd find on a graphing calculator from the '90s. I've seen better pixel art on a calculator watch. The characters look like they were drawn by someone with their eyes closed and a shaky hand. And don't get me started on the environments – they're bland, repetitive, and about as visually stimulating as watching paint dry. Gameplay? Ha! More like game-flay! The controls are clunky and unresponsive, as if your character is wading through molasses. Combat is a mind-numbing button-mashing fest with no strategy or skill involved. The quests are nothing more than glorified fetch quests, sending you on mindless errands to collect arbitrary items for forgettable NPCs who couldn't muster an interesting line of dialogue if their lives depended on it. And the story? What story? Magic Rune's plot is thinner than a sheet of paper. It's a mishmash of tired fantasy tropes and clichés stitched together with all the finesse of a blindfolded toddler. …13 found this helpful
[quote][b][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_flip]Warning: Asset Flip![/url][/b] "Magic Runes" is a Digital Homicide style asset flip, or what Valve calls a "Fake Game". The "developer" paid for/pirated a few Unity asset store packs, dumped them all in a blender, and submitted it to Valve as if they're real game developers.[/quote] Two notable criteria for what makes an asset flip instead of legitimate use of stock assets are whether those assets comprise the majority of the game, and whether the "developer" properly credited the people who created most of the assets in the game. This game fails both of those tests. The "developers" here didn't credit any of the artists and real, actual game developers who created the assets here, so this is plagiarism, as well as cash grab shovelware. In this case, the asset flipper took the FPS Microgame template and a bunch of stolen dinosaur assets (and some Suriyun assets for background objects/trees etc), but despite all this asset theft, came up with yet another pointless "kill all the enemies on the open map" FPS garbage asset flip the same quality as all his other garbage wave survival FPS asset flips. It has no value or merit a…12 found this helpful
This game is absolute trash. Even on sale don't worth it10 found this helpful
BAD GAME DONT DEVELOPMENT ANY OTHER GAME
the biggest piece of ♥♥♥♥ ever
Nice little running/walking simulator, would benefit greatly from a minimap, cause you can't find ♥♥♥♥. This would probably shorten the gametime by half, which would also benefit this piece of trash greatly. I would've rather spent 15 min instead of 38 min to finish the "story". Also 40€?, why not more, rly.
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