Robby's Adventure Reviews

Fun with my 7 year old!

Robby's Adventure is yet another of literally thousands of 2D retro platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. This one is rendered in 3D thanks to the Unreal Engine, unfortunately this adds very little to the experience apart from demonstrating clearly to all the amateur devs who pollute Steam with pixel garbage that there's just no excuse for that kind of laziness. That doesn't mean this is by any means close to a decent game, but at least the developer wasn't as lazy as most of them, so kudos to them for that much at least. This garbage platformer has you controlling some dopey robot looking to find your human being boy buddy, which might be charming if it was narrated well and accompanied with a decent video game, neither of which has happened here. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. The game features mediocre low-polygon "retro" assets, making this look like a barely functional 3D game from the mid 2000s. It's unclear why the developers weren't able to arrange high quality, high polygon count contemporary assets for the game, and also irrelevant... what matters is that this looks bad as a result of their decisions, a compromise PC gamers shouldn't have to put up with. 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, or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts. While this is on PC, it has all the hallmarks and deficiencies of a console game, from the clunkier than needed control scheme to the less than cutting edge graphics. There's 10's of thousands of PC games on Steam, and PC gamers deserve only the best. This might not appeal to many gamers due to the lack of PC-centric design. It's unclear why this game was never accepted on the video game console appliances it seems to have been designed for. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. Robby's Adventure didn't appeal much to the people who own a copy of the game, either. It has achievements, and they show us a very clear picture that the game didn't really capture any interest from gamers. The most commonly and easily attained achievement is for collecting 10 cog wheels, you can do this in less than a minute playing the game, trivial to get, but less than 32 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling the game. Hardly a success story, gamers just weren't all that interested in the game. The poor quality of this game is also reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 2 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, 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 50,000 games for gamers to choose from (over 9,000 completely free titles), the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. Robby's Adventure 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, this is impossible to recommend.

There is a lot to like here. However: I really want there to be a better explanation for the tool box. The text needs to be organized so that it is readable, or better yet, add some voice acting. As it is, the robot is cute, the platforming is rage inducing and the game is not terrible. Probably a bit pricey. https://youtu.be/e4qUqnaDyms

Listen, you can read every comment from this game. You bought it for a really low price and got a % off because you got a coupon. This game... is definitely a game. That's what I keep saying. It's someone's first game, from it feels like. Its not a...bad game, but I won't be playing it more than I have. I 100% the game just to complete it and it took me 5.1 hours. The boss battle was... interesting and the last level made me hit my desk a few times because the ladder physic's are not...the best. Is it worth the experience for the price, yeah lol, but its not saying much. Pros: It's a simple game, was nice to explore, easy concepts (besides the boss and ladders). Cons: It can be frustrating at times, early mechanics like pushing objects is abandoned after first few levels, Little Robots run stupidly fast in the chase scene, Boss needs a helping hand with how you were suppose to jump correctly (I died around... 75 times just trying to figure out why I couldn't jump to the 4 platforms.), The bonus games were honestly fine, but it could have been added to actual experience in some way; I just preferred that style, and is just my opinion. Overall, It's an okay game, but I couldn't recommend it. Good job regardless developers and keep trying.

A precision platformer that doesn't have the responsive controls, precise hitboxes or time to practice for the precision it demands. Double jumps can either be short, medium, or incredibly high without any explanation for why you get one over the other. Sometimes just being too close to a bullet or enemy counts as a death instead of being actively hit by something. There are security camera segments that are barely visible, and I suspect unseeable for people with red/green colorblindness. Overall, the game end up just being enragingly frustrating instead of fun. The style is cute, but it doesn't make up for the gameplay.

Controlling and looking at this game can legit feel painful at times... this game does have "story" and an overall progression to it... but that's kinda all I can positively say about it... 100% this game was a weird experience and I am more or less just feeling that it was just a bit of a waste of time. There are a lot of things to improve on that it feels hard to even know where to start. problems rudimentary that starts with like creating models that feel more connected to one another to fixing hit box systems and all. There is a start to a game here... but just a start...