Yappie! Knockout

Trash Tier --- Pro: 1. It's free. Neutral: 1. The graphics are boring but not offensive. Con: 1. The camera is annoying. 2. The controls are clunky. 3. Game is unstable and likes to crash (and yes I'm way above the requirements) 4. Gameplay is a poor attempt at a Fall Guys rip-off, but fails to capture the nuance or variety. 5. The "unlimited" number of maps the store page brags about are just the same few pieces of terrain assembled in random order so they all feel the same anyway. 6. This wants all kinds of personal info to sign up for an account (you can play as a guest but it won't record your progress if you do) 7. It needed admin access to install? My virus scanner didn't like it either and flagged it as suspicious. 8. There's almost no one online playing, rooms full of bots getting stuck on terrain. 9. Matchmaking seems to have been made by amateurs, because even with mostly empty servers it has a hard time putting you into one or making another room: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3026311426 I could go on; but, it feels like I'm just beating a dead horse at this point. --- You know what I will do though? Let's talk about fake reviews. This game …

Yappie Knockout released in July 2023 on Steam and previously on Itch.io as well as their private Yahaha Launcher. This btw bothers me a lot. You can download the game here on Steam, but you can't play, unless you register on their Yahaha Website and download their launcher from there. If you release a game on Steam it should be directly playable on Steam. According to some players this might have been different at the Steam Launch and might have been patched in later, which would be very scammy. Anyhow, Yappie Knockout has an all-time player peak of 17. It might have had higher player numbers at the Itch.io launch, even though I doubt it. Yappie Knockout is probably a bit better looking than some other scuffed Fall Guys clones, but the developers of this game are, in contrast to a lot of the other copy games, a professional studio. Yappie also rip-offs much more stages of Fall Guys than I have ever seen any of the others do. There are Yappie versions of Starchart, Snowball Survival, Hoarders, Hex-A-Gone, Tip Toe, Door Dash, Egg Scramble and many others. Honestly I am not going to bother to list them all up. They are just low effort rip-offs of Fall Guys stages. On a lot of these…

Fall Guys from Wish

[quote][b]Note: Dead PvP game[/b] This game contains no meaningful single player content. There's no viably populated servers/active player population. This game cannot be played as intended.[/quote] [quote][b]Warning: Third Party Account[/b] This game requires you to create a third party "Yahaha Launcher" account... there's no valid reason for this in a PC game when SteamWorks is available. This is often done to harvest private data and profile you, with potential sale and transmission of your private data to third parties. The developers will probably argue that you can trust them, but if they were trustworthy they wouldn't demand you create a third party account. This represents a considerable risk to gamers due to the privacy and security implications of developers that wish to bypass Steam and harvest user data. Remember, sometimes if the product is free, YOU are the product.[/quote] This garbage is an incredibly weak ripoff of Stumble Guys made for up to 24 players, but only ever had a peak player count of 17 people (ouch). So this never, ever got played as intended. Worse, those 17 "players" were just idling the game on day #0 so they could write fake reviews for …

If I have to make another account to play a game on my steam account, instant fail.

launched it and had to restart to update the game. You cannot play at all without logging in on yahaha.com. I didn't need to provide my email but I assume they're stealing it from my steam account anyway. It takes a LOT MORE than 'a few seconds" to load this space for then first time. I hit 5 minutes of playtime before even getting into a single game. Task manager showed no increasing RAM and very little CPU/disk usage. Broken, maybe.