Review 2
Purchased!
MY GOD. Adorably awful. Do not play, but if there is no option, do it with your
eyes closed and plugs in your ears.
Review 4
Purchased!
Game was remade and old achievements deleted. Dont buy any games from this
developer ever again.
Review 5
Purchased!
"Abrix 2 - Diamond version" is a mobile-app like grid puzzle/pathing game where
you must move a low quality toy robot through a grid of blocks. Different blocks
do different things so you must move carefully to ensure you choose the correct
path through the correct blocks... seems simple enough but there's no guide or
tooltips to show you what each kind of block does, and there's also no incentive
to actually play the game because it's garbage.
EJRGames have a known history of trying to scam people into paying them money
for someone else's work, through this account or through closely linked/alt
accounts. One example of EJRGames doing this is VRAdventure
[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1057730], which is really the "POLYGON
Dungeons - Low Poly 3D Art by Synty
[https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/dungeons/polygon-dungeons-low-poly-3d-art-by-synty-102677]"
asset, written by the actual developers, Synty Games. When EJRGames took this
asset from Synty Studios, they didn't credit them and tried to pass off Synty's
work as their own, to mislead gamers for profit.
Taking this shovelware seriously as if it was a genuine attempt to make a game,
it doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as
standard.
There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the
graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the
native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look
right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way
for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics. In fact, the developer
decided the native resolution of my monitor was mobile phone 9:16 aspect ratio,
and because there's no graphics settings, there's no way to correct this
insulting misjudgement on the part of the failed developer.
The game features simple, cartoony 2D graphics, of the type you normally expect
to see in low effort mobile apps. 3D graphics programming does require a degree
of skill and competence and unfortunately not all developers have the budget or
talent to deliver this, despite 3D graphics cards hitting the mainstream in the
1990's. Considering this is being evaluated as a PC game, having the graphics
phoned in like this isn't going to result in a high quality, visually impressive
game that PC gamers are used to seeing.
The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it
can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers.
This looks and feels like a mobile app, but it doesn't seem to have made it to
the app stores. It's unclear why this was put on Steam instead of the app stores
it seems to have been designed for. Maybe it was removed, maybe it was rejected
by Apple and Google (they do have more rigorous quality standards than Valve
does for Steam, after all).
Regardless, for all intents and purposes "Abrix 2 - Diamond version" might as
well be a mobile app, it has the same limitations and dumbed down qualities.
It's impossible to recommend such a game to PC gamers. We don't spend all this
money building gaming rigs so we can pretend they're iPhones and play games that
might as well be mobile apps.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern
PC game.
You don't have to take my word about how bad the game is, we can measure the
interest in a game by how much people bothered to play it. "Abrix 2 - Diamond
version" has achievements, and they show us a very clear picture that the game
absolutely failed to capture any interest from gamers. The most commonly and
easily attained achievement is for completing the simple tutorial level, but
only around 4 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling
the game. That's a tiny, tiny proportion of gamers who even bothered with this.
Ouch.
"Abrix 2 - Diamond version" is relatively cheap at $2 USD, but it's not worth
it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the
unrealistic price and the unethical nature of the asset flipping developer, this
is impossible to recommend.
Warning: Microtransaction Infested GameThis game is infested with a mobile app
like cash shop for unlocking in-game currency and features. Whether these are
purely cosmetic or they alter your gaming experience significantly, this gamer
gouging practice is unethical and insulting to gamers, especially when applied
to such a low quality shovelware game. Gamers should be cautious and consider
avoiding this game for that reason alone.
