Air Wars Reviews

Let me ask you this. Do you believe in a god? Any higher power, even? After playing this game, you might follow my footsteps and re-evaluate your stance. I found this game whilst sorting through my forever-growing library. I was told it was an "easy side-scroller game." While that's not wrong, it omits the rest of the package; this game induces time dilation. It is the same 6 second cycle, with four obstacles, repeating for 5 minutes per level. These 5 minutes felt like (no exaggeration) 15 minutes to me, which was certainly worsened by the deaths and hits I endured. You might even be able to say the same three obstacles every 6 seconds, since you can [i]literally[/i] just fly into the rockets and not take any damage. Air Wars takes place in a hellscape universe where six bees are enough to destroy a helicopter, yet rockets are powerless. These bees, alongside the other obstacles, are made more deadly by the fact that the hitboxes in this game act like [i]fucking magnets.[/i] You could be an astronomical unit away from the rocks or the enemy—provided you miss, which is really only a threat on Level 1—and it would still hurt you. Keep in mind, you only have 6 HP, and it does [i]not[/i] regenerate after completing a level. You could be aching, watching the progress bar move pixel by pixel, and next thing you know, you take damage from seemingly nothing and plummet into the abyss below. All you get is a Comic Sans game over screen, which takes you back to Level 1. The suffering, the pain; all for nothing, with no acknowledgement. Even if you pass a level, it's wholly unceremonious; all it does is say "Level 2" with no fanfare or transition. Good luck even passing a level if you don't know how to shoot, which the game never tells you how to do. (It's the space bar, which can certainly be interpreted, but it's telling that the game never tells you that you can shoot. [strike]i suppose that's my fault for not watching the trailer beforehand, though[/strike]) Is this the worst game on Steam? No. It's not even the worst one I've played; my struggle was definitely elevated by the fact that I suck and I got cocky. [i]Sit on bottle[/i] and [i]Adventures of Heroes[/i] (a now-banned asset flip) are by all accounts a more painful experience [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/Velvetune/recommended/776820/](see my review for the former,)[/url] but those games at least have the honor of being coherent. Those games craft its total mockery with precision, leaving no crumbs behind, yet Air Wars truly just makes a lump. It's an overtly untested and truly unsubstantiated executable file that falls—much like its hitboxes—a whole astronomical unit below what should be expected from a game on Steam. [strike](as a final addendum, when i showed this game to a friend, he, without hesitation, said "sorry to get hyper specific but that game looks like it was made by an austrian computer engineering college student in under 10 days" and, yeah,)[/strike]

As soon as the last achievement popped, which took enduring the game all the way til level 3, and felt like forever, I uninstalled the game. Easy, but wow...atleast other games/devs seem to be self aware of how bad they are, which kind of makes it funny. This game is like getting a soda, when the machine has run out of syrup.