Trianga's Project: Battle Splash 2.0 Reviews

Possibly the best and fun game to be played with family and friends! If you and your friends like water guns go pew pew then this game is for for ya'll. And also for streamers and content creators who wanted to play and have fun with their fellow viewers this one is a splash!!

I love this approach to the modern shooter! Games like splatoon and Peach Blast Splash are revaming the shooter genre for a more non violent approach. Im happy to see an indie shooter like this! As of the game, its great fun to play! The main multiplayer is fun and addictive! Now before i talk about my gripes, im well aware that this is a work in progress, and these could be easily fixed. I feel like putting the keymapper in options would help inprove the game, since i didnt know how to untill now. The game runs smooth and looks amazing, it can run on some slightly underpowered PCs, and i can appreciate that. But as the game grows, more charecters, maps, modes, and a possible campaign would be fun! when it officialy releases, that would be really nice! Keep at this project! It has great potential and could be somthing special! As a broke student, id love to support on patreon, but i cant ATM, but i support this project 110% and hope it goes far! Also, try to open a gofundme? That might help! 9/10 as a developing project! Would reccomend!

The game has a great ideia of gameplay, characters with their own abilities, interesting weapon mechanics and fast pace combat, sometimes it makes you feel some quake and unreal tournament vibes. With upcoming improvements this game has a great future ahead, keep working hard devs !

Great concept, super fun arcadey shooting mechanics but with waterguns. Cute waifus! Only played survival with my partner so far and that was a blast! The game is really rough but dang the network/netplay works really well and for €1 this game is so much fun! 6/10 as a whole, but for it's price it's like a 9!

Real gem here, its a bit choppy with the lighting giving something of a performance hit but it's a solid game for a buck :D It also has extensive graphics ooptions, soemthing you don't always see from indies or at this price range.

A for effort but game is dead as hell. If a multiplayer focus game has 0 concurrent player then it is not worth buying; not even at this price unfortunately.

I'm not one to push for Steam adding a "Mixed" review rating along with Yes or No, but Battle Splash could sure use it. The game looks great but is shallow as heck and very light on content for the current asking price - I nabbed this for 50% off and would still say that was too expensive. Bot AI is wonky, expect to be aimbotted from across the map but them not be able to hit you from a person-length away when you spam A and D. As of now, you can play through the included four maps in under an hour, unless you play each of the four game modes on all maps which *might* bump you into the early end of the three hour mark. Online matches are nonexistent apart from the very few I've seen set up on the official channel. Development has been rather slow, although the developer's around often on their Discord. Should you remove Battle Splash from your wish list? No. Keep it on there and take a peek when it hits full release, this could really go places. But if you're hungering for an arena shooter right now, go grab one of the others this is compared to instead.

THIS GAME HAS THE OPTION TO PLAY ALL MODES WITH BOTS + FRIENDS. I am sick and tired of people simply going "dead game" and "unplayale" in every pvp game when it's possible to make your own custom games, add bots and invite your friends. There is also a survival mode specifically I think to play vs bots.

[quote][b]Warning: Dead PVP Game[/b] This game has no meaningful single player content, and no playable PvP servers. There is no functioning PvP population, it's a dead game, and cannot be played as intended.[/quote] [quote][b][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_flip]Warning: Asset Flip![/url][/b] Trianga's Project: Battle Splash 2.0 is a Digital Homicide style asset flip, or what Valve calls a "Fake Game". The "developer" paid for/pirated a few Unity asset store packs, dumped them all in a blender, and submitted it to Valve as if they're real game developers.[/quote] Two notable criteria for what makes an asset flip instead of legitimate use of stock assets are whether those assets comprise the majority of the game, and whether the "developer" properly credited the people who created most of the assets in the game. This game fails both of those tests. The "developers" here didn't credit any of the artists and real, actual game developers who created the assets here, so this is plagiarism, as well as cash grab shovelware. In this case, the asset flipper took a bunch of really poor Unity assets like [url=https://assetstore.unity.com/publishers/22258]Sapphiart-chan[/url] from BLACKC Inc, and a few others, with a little reskinning to try disguise where they stole the assets from (no credits of course), and dumped it all on a Unity FPS arena shooter blueprint/template. Then threw on a bunch of DLCs for more "borrowed" assets from other developers. It has no value or merit as a real game. It's worth mentioning that despite this qualifying as an asset flip due to the majority of the game itself having been made by other people, some mediocre effort went into making a variety of weapons, which nobody ever used because serious PvP gamers aren't interested in asset flips. The focus of the asset flip is pure PvP, there's no single player content. The developer gambled that other players would be an acceptable substitute for adding storytelling, level design etc to the game. The vast majority of PvP-only games fail because they don't "go viral", and without players, or single player content to add a lasting value to the game, the game dies. Developers must learn that other players are not an acceptable substitute for adding content to a game. The game assets are fairly mediocre/low quality, in some places they appear mismatched... Ultimately the quality of these assets, and thus the overall visual quality is lower than average, and low quality always makes for a less than optimal gaming experience. Remember, we're looking for the best of the best of 100,000+ games on Steam. One of so many reasons that asset flips are never games with any true value for gamers. 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 9 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 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. Unethically, the developers have left this on the Steam store in an unplayable and broken state (because there's no players and no single player content). It's the responsibility of the developer to maintain their product, ensure it runs on all modern PCs, or if they determine there's defects and the game doesn't work, or the population dies, they should remove it from sale instead of misleadingly trying to scam gamers into buying knowingly defective products. This is harmful to Steam and to gamers, not just because it's a direct and intentional attempt to scam people, but because it takes a share of the marketing space and visibility away from other games. It's polluting Steam and making it harder for gamers to find genuine games and for genuine indie developers who put months or years into making proper games find an audience. This kind of asset flipping isn't harmless. It makes it harder for gamers to find genuinely made games from ethical developers. It makes it harder for genuine indie developers, who put hard work into trying to make real games, to find an audience for their products. It gives indie developers a bad name. So, should you buy this asset flip? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam? The developer is deliberately and unethically trying to scam gamers into paying them for an assset flipped game they know is unplayable. Don't give it to them. Remember that if you buy a game from an unethical developer, you're putting your money at risk. [quote][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/reviews]Developer Response![/url][/quote]The developer has weighed in to inform everyone they didn't read the [url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/reviews]Developer Usage Rules[/url] for Steam "partners", or they deliberately ignored the part where Valve says: [quote]Though it may be tempting, not every review needs to be responded to. A developer response will frequently draw more attention than the original statement, potentially turning a small issue into a much larger community discussion. It's also not a good idea to use this feature to refute customer opinions. Your direct attention can be seen as validation or a defensive attempt to silence your customers.[/quote] The developer makes the easily disproven claim that this isn't an asset flip, just take a look at the models in the game and then take one look at the asset pack I linked. The assets are identical bar a few reskinned/swapped textures etc. This is not a co-incidence, especially considering the assets are also [i]in the game manifest for anyone to see![/i]. It's unclear why the developer chose to breach Valve guidelines just to embarrass themselves in this way. The developer claims my findings are unfounded [i]but I linked the evidence in my review for everyone to see[/i]. More dishonesty. The developer admits their game is unplayable because, duh, you can't play a PvP game on your own. But also doesn't seem to understand why that should discourage people from buying it? Yet he's keeping this on Steam with his hand out for YOUR money. Don't give it to him. You can see how dishonest he's being. I've provided evidence to back up the facts of my review. Nothing in the developers pointless breach of Valve guidelines changes any of the objective facts of my review. My review stands unaltered. I cannot recommend this game to anyone.

While there's potential for low-budget fun here, I can't see myself actually recommending it. On the positive side, its a really interesting idea for an FPS and they do tweak the traditional FPS rules in some interesting ways. It's extremely high mobility both because you need to dodge water shots and because you air dry faster at high speeds. This leads to a pretty good feeling of running, jumping and just moving around in general. You have 4 mains weapons with 3 variations each, and each of the 4 characters has a unique special power. But an online shooter is made by it's player base... and in this case it's dead. You're limited to a single wave based shooter mode that involves you surviving 30 waves of bots. I've tried it multiple times but it's not that good. The biggest problem is that most shooters have an intentional level design that funnels players towards one another. The levels here are massive spread out battlefields. This means that nearly every time I've played I've wandered around an empty map because the bots are always somewhere else. Eventually I run out of time and have to restart that wave. But after 3 minutes of aimless, actionless wandering... I just don't care. Even worse, because I can't win enough waves I can't unlock more weapons than the pistol! I find myself wishing for a zombie mode where the bots seek me out, or a traditional team deathmatch where the bots at least try and help me search. I want to be able to enjoy these mechanics but I just really can't find any way to do so with the setup that's in place. If you have a group of players all in the mood for a silly little water gun fight you might be able to have a good evening. But otherwise, you'll probably be better off skipping it until something else changes.