Hard Place Reviews

-1

realy bad

boring game(

Lacking both quality and polish.

Loud annoying but easy achievements :D

Hard Place is more asset flip style shovelware from the Russians at Red Twice Potato. This time it's a very bare bones 3D platformer slapped together with a bunch of stock Unity assets (not credited to the actual creators) where you jump around to collect something... oh it's pure garbage. What should we expect from Russian shovelware pushers and review manipulators? From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. The game features lazy minimalist/untextured low-polygon "retro" assets and visuals, making this look like a barely functional 3D game from the early 1990s. The lack of textures is a method that lazy devs often use to disguise their lack of talent/interest in doing the graphics properly and trying to disguise it under the name of "art", or "We made it look bad on purpose", which really isn't something gamers should have to put up with. It's unclear why the developers weren't willing to arrange high quality, high polygon count contemporary assets and high resolution textures for the game. It looks bad as a result of their decisions, and that's just another reason to avoid it. The developers didn't design the game for modern gaming PCs, as such the display resolution caps out at 1080p, a very low resolution that became mainstream back in 2006 and became obsolete when 4K entered the mainstream in 2014. The game simply won't look right on modern gaming displays due to this failure on the part of the developers. Bewilderingly, the game doesn't include proper audio controls, so you can't turn off the annoying background music, you'll need to alt+tab out and stop the music using the Windows sound mixer. This is obviously not okay and it's unclear why the developers chose not to include this basic feature. 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. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. Hard Place 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 completing the first simple level (less than 30 seconds to do this), but only around 37 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 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 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. [b][quote][url=https://mmofallout.com/valve-bans-titles-for-review-manipulation/]Warning: Review Manipulation![/url][/quote][/b] This game features a number of fake positive reviews from accounts known to be in the business of review manipulation/paid reviews. They're all written in either Russian or broken English, appear at almost exactly the same time, very shortly after the game launched on Steam, all have a direct Steam purchase of the game, and the accounts are used consistently to write fake reviews for asset flips and other cash grabs/scams. The "Positive" review score on this game should be disregarded due to this blatant, unethical review manipulation. This is done to deceive and scam gamers into paying for a bad product. Hard Place has the total ripoff price of around $4 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the unethical nature of the developer. Remember that if you buy a game from an unethical developer, you're putting your money at risk.

Very interesting concept - first person puzzle game just like Portal! Theres a room - and your task to find something, or to pass the room to exit and the further you play the more difficult traps and tasks are becoming! Great trendy low poly graphics, lots of fantasy of game creators for a quite cheap price - i recommend.

-Runs on 60hz Max. -Easy achievements/100% Perfect Game only if the achievements don't glitch which they did for me Gameplay ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Nothing special ☑ Okay ☐ Bad Graphics ☐ Masterpiece ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Will do ☐ Bad ☐ Awful Audio ☐ Amazing ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☑ Not too bad ☐ Bad Audience ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☐ Adults ☐ Everyone Story ☐ Lovely ☐ Good ☐ Average ☐ Not great ☑ None Difficulty ☐ Just press a bunch of buttons ☐ Easy ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Not so easy ☐ Difficult ☐ Impossible Bugs ☐ Bugs destroy the game ☑ Lots of bugs ☐ Few Bugs ☐ Not game breaking ☐ You can use them for speedrun ☐ Nothing encountered Grind ☑ Nothing ☐ Only if you care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isnt necessary to progress ☐ A bit grindy sometimes ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ Insanity Game Time ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☑ Depends on you ☐ Endless Price ☐ Just buy it ☐ Worth the price ☐ Wait for sale ☐ Maybe if you have some spare money left ☑ Not recommended

I don't recommend the game at all, it's boring and doesn't have much to it. Thankfully, I think I got this game for free, I'd tear up if I spent any money on this game.