The Flames

So, before you downvote me for making a negative review of a game made by a 10-year old - consider this: This is a game, yes - but it's a game from a tutorial on how to make a game. I'm not kidding. So, what contribution did the aforementioned 10-year old actually make? Well - the "lore" within the game, which reads as follows: "Help us Hodya took over our home planent and captuerd the wisp and thers nothing we can do we need you to help us" The typos? That's exactly how it's written in-game. I took a screenshot of it. What's messed up is that there's a bit of text saying: "Credit to BlackThornProd". BlackThornProd - appears to be the alias of a game developer whose name is Noa Calice - who also is the creator of the tutorial from which this "game" was ripped. All in all - pretty messed up.

The Flames is yet another of literally hundreds of lazy amateur 2D retro top-down shooter/brawlers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. This one is particularly bad and looks like a high school project (presumably the student was immediately expelled, or at least held back a year). You just shoot waves of enemies in an endless arena. There's different weapon pickups, they're not very interesting, and that's all there is to this. The game is very simplistic, small and limited in scope and ambition. This feels more like a tech demo, proof of concept or student homework assignment rather than a fully fledged product designed for PC gamers. As such it doesn't offer any real value as a serious PC game. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. The visuals in this game are a complete joke, it's seriously just a bunch of MS-Paint sprites/images that look like they were lazily scrawled out over the space of a couple of hours. Like, with the mouse, it doesn't look like they even used a Wacom tablet or anything. It's so bad even pixel "art" would look better than…