The Valley (2019)

EDIT: Months later and the game is still garbage.... Steam should be looking at what they're allowing to be added the the market. This isn't anything playable at the moment and at the begging of my review I was giving it a chance but now months later nothings changed. SCAMMED!! The concept is great and I think with the right amount of work and dedication the game could work well and be a real success. Unfortunately I can't say much more about it due to the lack of content and overall experience. I fully understand its a very early access game but there is literally nothing to it besides a few asset packs from unity. Someone with a little know how with unity could have this up and running in a few days. I'm not going to completely dismiss the game because I'd like to see if the folk saying it's a money making scheme are correct or not. If any of the game developers are reading this please post an announcement of when updates or content being added will happen. I wish the game wouldn't of been out on the market and left as a "coming soon" store item until more progress was made. Until then I can't recommend. I'll keep checking back.

I shot spiders until the game broke. Pew Pew

[b][quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_flip]Warning: Asset Flip![/url][/quote][/b]The Valley 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. It's important to also note 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. This is an extremely lazy asset flip, you're in a small map full of Unity tree assets and swamp assets, and you get attacked by an asset flipped alien spider thing. The developer added a text-to-speech voice that tells you to get a gun. You just do boring wave survival kiting against the spider assets. That's the entire game... it's garbage. The game was abandoned roughly immediately at launch and was never updated since. It blew past the developers commitment to complete the game without any notification or admission of failure from the developer. The game will never be completed, and yet the developer has not refunded any money that they took f…

This "game" was clearly not ready for release. I have to struggle to get into the game. The keybind for picking up a weapon was F (which took me a moment to figure out). Your health meter stays at 100%, regardless of how much damage you've taken. You can still die...you just have no idea how much health you have. Sometimes, at the start of the game, it kinda resets itself repeatedly. So if you start the game and start moving, it'll kick you back to where you started at. The spiders don't show any signs of taking damage. They do eventually die, but...they don't react or stagger or anything when you shoot them. There is no way to tell if you are hitting or missing. This is beyond bare bones. This shouldn't be for sell in it's current state.