Solridge

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"Solridge" is primarily intended to be an educational game to teach elementary school kids reading and arithmetic skills. This is achieved through badly written VN dialogues and crappy top down shooter minigames. Needless to say, this is not making education better, but it does make gaming worse. Also, inflicting garbage pixelcrap on children should be considered child abuse. The amateur pixelcrap visual presentation here at best could have been an attempt to use "retro" as a crutch, a weak excuse to avoid admitting the developer wasn't capable of doing the job of a game developer this decade and creating cutting edge, high quality 3D visuals. While a lack of skill or funding is the explanation for this failure, it's no excuse. The end result of this incompetence is a game that looks dramatically inferior to professionally developed games. Terraria and Undertale succeeded [i]despite[/i] looking crap, not [i]because[/i] they look crap. Let's talk about price and the value this represents for us gamers. This is "free" enough (not every "free" game in the "free" section is truly free, there's usually some hidden price tag), at least you won't be expected to spend any more mone…