UniVerso

UniVerso is not a game. Games contain meaningful gamelike interaction and game loops, which are absent in this software. Instead of being a game, UniVerso is a software application that attempts, very badly, to create a business metaverse/digital boardroom, because you know, Zoom apparently have no idea what they're doing, so these guys decided to show them how to do it right... by publishing business software in the "Games" section of Steam. As an I/T admin, if I ever saw any company employees on Steam during work hours, they wouldn't be company employees for very long. What were these guys smoking? Anyway, with a peak user count of only 3 people, probably just the developers themselves, this died on impact. For those unfamiliar with what actually makes something a game, a "game loop" describes the interaction and feedback a gamer has when playing a game. Tetris, for example, has a game loop where a random block appears, the gamer interacts with the block to position it, and then the game decides if that finishes a row or not, increases the players score if any rows were completed, then gives the gamer another block to position. Counter-Strike has a game loop where a pla…