The Unclogging: An Unsanitary Saga Reviews

RPG Maker strikes again! The Unclogging: An Unsanitary Saga is one of hundreds of low effort retro-pixel RPG Maker asset/construction kit flips spamming the Steam catalog, made with the RPG Maker video game construction kit... in their own words, "Our easy to use tools are simple enough for a child." Like all RPG Maker "games", this is essentially a bunch of low quality/canned assets from RPG Maker coupled with a cringeworthy high school anime club fan fiction. There's a couple of "notable" things about this. Appropriately, the game has a toilet theme and nothing could be more fitting for any game made with RPG Maker. Strangely, the "developer" openly admits this isn't a professionally made game because they used RPG Maker (many "developers" try to hide this fact, but we can all tell in an instant when something is RPG Maker construction kit shovelware). Finally, there's the boast of 300 levels, I can't directly confirm this, but there's no reason not to believe it. But as always, more of a bad thing doesn't make the bad thing better, it makes it worse. Imagine if the ~5 minutes of life wasted in RPG Maker to make each of the levels could have been spent learning how to do actual game development instead of using a construction kit. As with all RPG Maker games, the poor quality engine displays badly in fullscreen and doesn't have full HD support or any graphics tweaking options, making this unacceptable for any dedicated modern PC gamer. The point can be made that the intention of RPG Maker is to make demos and small games to pass around friends, and shouldn't be used for "professional" game development. Like most RPG Maker shovelware and asset flips, the game features extremely low quality copy + pasted 2D retro pixel art, looks awful, and has even worse gameplay. RPG Maker is an absolutely terrible construction kit, and never results in games of any reasonable quality or value to gamers. Anyway, this is on par with every other RPG Maker asset flip on Steam, which is to say, absolutely terrible, and nobody should ever buy or play this, and that's supported by the player stats, which are more amusing than this entire game. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the game all-time peak player count was only ONE player. That's right, only one person ever played this at a time. When I played this for the purposes of reviewing it, I equalled the peak player count for the game. OUCH. The only player 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 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. So, should you buy this game? The Unclogging: An Unsanitary Saga is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. Gamers who want a good retro JRPG experience would be better off playing the originals, like Final Fantasy, Star Ocean or Chrono Trigger. This is also competing with over 11,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.

WIthout the poop jokes, the storyline would at least be the start of something, but this is pretty bad and does the whole poop joke thing overboard (even though that's the entire theme of this), but other cons are that it doesn't seem very well balanced, with items being ridiculously expensive. The absolute last straw for me though was having to dodge instadeath orbs as part of the main quest. As a side puzzle, okay fine as I can just skip that, but as part of the main quest is dumb.