Comment on ‘Unknown 9: Awakening’ Arrives To 200 Steam Players, Poor Reviews
Renacles@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The article honestly reads like they are glad the game failed.
I haven’t played it but, from reviews, it seems to be a pretty decent AA game with poor marketing.
simple@lemm.ee 3 days ago
The article is tongue in cheek, but I’m not sure where you’re getting “pretty decent AA game” from. It got scathing reviews and has a worse average score than Forespoken. It’s currently mostly negative on Steam so from what it sounds, it seems like a bad game that got zero advertisements because the studio gave up on it.
sgnl@midwest.social 2 days ago
Forespokens hatred train was beyond-the-pale ridiculous. If every game was judged / brigaded as harshly as Forspoken was, the AAA game industry would collapse.
And honestly, Forspoken was a really fun game if you focused on what you were doing 99% of the time, which was traversal and combat. The story, quest design and characters were lackluster, but it wasn’t nearly as horrible as people made it out to be.
People robbed themselves.
zecg@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Are you fucking kidding me? It’s 79.99€ on Steam and you’re talking as if the opportunity to experience it is lost forever. If it’s worth a cat shit, I’m looking forward to its proper release in 2026. at 15€ or less.
sgnl@midwest.social 23 hours ago
Lol, I’m not gonna contest you on the price point. But that’s an issue with every AAA+ game imho. Even I snagged it on sale.
But that’s also not even close to what the review bombing was about.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 1 day ago
*AAAA industry.
They tried to market it as the first AAAA game.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
“Scathing” feels like too strong of a word for this game or Forspoken’s reviews. The majority of them seem to be right around that 7/10 range, and even the 5s share similar language more often than not.