AENTITY Reviews

Note: This review will seem similar to my review for the garbage non-game that is "ROA". This is because the developer just copy + pasted that garbage and renamed it to AENTITY, which, because it is exactly the same thing, has all the same problems. This isn't a game, it's an "art experience" that's been dumped on Steam, presumably because the local art galleries took out a restraining order on the "artists" who had no other choice but to pay Valve $100 to dump this on Steam. The idea behind this "art" is you are presented with a FPS environment, but instead of, you know, a game being there, it's just a mangled bunch of trippy shaders that make everything look weird, bad, and multicolour. Apparently that's so amazing it should be a paid product on Steam. Which is for PC games, not whatever this garbage is. 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 player seeks another player, tests their skill against that player by shooting them or being shot, the computer rewards the player if they win, and then if the player survives, they repeat that loop. There's no loop here, no true interactive feedback. It simply is not a game, it cannot be "played". The poor quality of this software is also reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak user number was only 5 people. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only user activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 110,000 real, actual games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality "art experience" is to be expected. AENTITY is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. I can only recommend real, interactive, playable games to gamers.