Super Mr. Kake Reviews

Super Mr. Kake is some very low quality shovelware from the shovelware pushers at Back to Basics gaming, famous for the disgusting and misogynist "Feminazi" joke game. These tone deaf developers have this time dumped a "fighting" game that attempts to be a ripoff of Ren & Stimpy (and stealing other people's ideas is always a hallmark of quality shovelware). But what you really get is an atrociously dumbed down, glorified Flash(esque) reflexes/QTE game where you press the button at the right time to pretend you're fighting some badly drawn cartoon. I got prompted to "Press Start" so I had a look around my keyboard and as I suspected, there's no "Start" key, which is a bit weird. Maybe the developers think we're console peasants. That's adding insult to injury, but then this is Back to Basics who seem hell bent on making gaming worse for everyone, and Super Mr. Kake is a fine example of how they go about this goal. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. The artwork here is terrible, it's all just amateurish "My First Wacom Tablet" style drawings used instead professional looking game assets. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget to arrange someone who can create graphical assets properly, or lack of talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low, enough on its own to deter gamers. While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the lacklustre 2D visuals. The very poor quality of this game puts it squarely on-par with ancient 1990's Flash/Java games, and given it's 2025 (and this was released not so far back in 2017), gamers and the industry expect and deserve better than this kind of low effort shovelware. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC 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 all-time peak player number was only 3 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 110,000 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? Is this one of the best of the 110,000+ games on Steam? Super Mr. Kake 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. This is also competing with over 14,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.