Mushroom Investigates：The Fleeing Rain

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"Mushroom Investigates：The Fleeing Rain" is a particularly badly made point and click adventure game made with RPG Maker... don't worry, this actually isn't an RPG Maker asset flip JRPG fan-fiction about the developers imaginary girlfriend. That doesn't mean it's a good game! It's a Chinese more-book-than-game point and click adventure where you take on the role of a mushroom for hire (these don't exist) and you investigate a strange phenomena of indoor rain. Don't ask me, I just write the reviews. Anyway it's garbage. This lack of an English translation for the game doesn't really matter. The language of shovelware games is universal. 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. On the topic of visuals, the weak looking 2D retro assets seem like they'd be more at home in a browser game or a mobile app. 3D graphics accelerators hit the mainstream of PC gaming in the mid 1990's with cards like the ATI Rage and Voodoo3D, ther…